Now BMW has changed it for the better:

Called the the Urban Mobility Vehicle, it beats the Smart Car concept by providing something cool, fun and fast.

First ride story here..

From NDP MP Charlie Angus:

“Being on Twitter is like being badgered by a drunk on a 24-hour bus ride,” Angus wrote in his manifesto on the Huffington Post.

“Twitter seems to be morphing into a bully pulpit for trolls. It is a technology that favours the flash mob. In England, the racist takeover of some Twitter feeds has resulted in people going to jail. The digital mob is no different from a street mob. It can be excitable, goodnatured or vicious, but don’t ever mistake the mob for a democracy.”

He joins a growing number of public figures who’ve decided they’ve had enough. Among them is Manchester City soccer player Micah Richards, who is black, and who abandoned Twitter because as a friend of his told a British newspaper: “In recent months, there’s been an increase in racist abuse from a small and depressing minority, and he decided enough was enough.”

The more we can get politicians off of Twitter, the better. Great work trolls.

One of my great frustrations when I moved from the US to Vancouver was not getting access to US websites as a US resident.

In some cases, like iTunes, I want to be seen as Canadian. (It costs less with the dollar plummeting.)

Being seen as a Canadian resident means losing access sites like to Hulu. Hulu can’t be watched in Canada as it’s network sensitive. The TV powers don’t want us watching it, so they’ve blacked it out.

Hulu has a lot of the top shows and HD programming – all for free. With a HDMI link from my Mac to my flatscreen, I can now watch all the shows I like, when I want. It’s almost like TIVO on demand.

I found a work-around called Hide My Ass. Hulu hasn’t blocked this proxy yet.

Happy Hulu’ing. Get it and then check out my favourite show (Not available in Canada):