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Are BC's cities and towns turning into little fiefdoms?
Who is running our cities in BC? And what can citizens do when governance of them seem to be spinning out of control? Do you think our un-elected city management staff have too much power, and along with our elected officials, tend to abuse the power of public office... Loan Reveals Two Spins on Democracy
Most political news in Vancouver has been swirling around the $100 million loan that is reportedly been authorized as a bailout cushion to either Millennium Development Corp (the company building the Olympic Village)... Russian Company to Sue Google for $3 Billion for Contextual Ads Technology
"It looks like Google is facing yet another patent lawsuit - this time involving a huge amount of money, the technology that is the key to Google’s money-making machine and a team of Russian developers." Vancouver Tenant seeks injunction to stop neighbour smoking: The Plight of BC...
Barry Artiste Op/Ed A recent story this week whereby a tenant in an apartment complex complained of health problems from cigarette smoke coming from an adjoining suite by another tenant. The affected tenant complains... 213 views | 16 comments | 24 recommendations
Buy a house, get a BMW car for free in India
Housing loan linked subprime crisis led to current state of economic slowdown in the United States and its contagion has spread all over world. The Indian real estate sector grew very...Cray Unveils Personal Supercomputer
Ray Kurzweil, in The Singularity is Near, predicts that by 2020 personal computers will have the same processing power as human brains. For now, Cray, the supercomputer manufacturer, has just come out with a $25,000 supercomputer that runs on 110 volt current and is small...128 views | 3 comments | 8 recommendations
Tesco pulls out of eco-towns project in UK
Tesco, the UK superkmarket giant, has pulled out of a plan to build "ecotowns" in Britain. The towns were supposed to contain zero-carbon flats and be generally environmentally friendly. "Gordon Brown's plan for eco-towns was unravelling last night, with Tesco withdrawing...111 views | 0 comments | 0 recommendations
iPhone Gaming Control Pads in the Works
OK, just a real-quick iPhone story, since it has been nearly 42 seconds since we've heard one. Anyway, one company's prototype for an iPhone gaming controller has appeared online. Basically, it makes your iPhone (as... Scientists may have found the cure to bad hair
A group of German scientists claim they have found the key to ending bad hair days. They conducted a microscopic analysis of individual hair strands interacting with one another. "If ‘bad hair day’... 342 views | 4 comments | 12 recommendations
Facebook F8 08 Conference Live
Feel free to contribute any photos, comments or updates to this story.Facebook's F8 08 Conference is happening live right now.Search live twitter conversations here.Their live keynote blog is here.Photos of the...User-Made Games Will Make it to Xbox Live
I'm sure we'll be seeing more of this sort of thing, but right now Microsoft is the only gaming console offering users the chance to put their own games online - and keep most of the profits.With the market penetration Microsoft has (they sold over 500 million items over the...Yahoo Wields New Tool to Battle Google
"Yahoo Inc. will introduce a tool for Web developers Thursday that is designed to expand the scale of its struggling search business and help create new competitors to Google Inc. The company said the free tool will allow developers to build customized search services based... 14 Things that Microsoft Needs to Do with Windows 7
"Microsoft made no secret out of having, for some time now, been cooking the next iteration of Windows, a translucent development process with very little transparent areas including details such as multi-touch, support for 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, and the evolution... There goes the neighbourhood: mosquitoes thrive on US credit slump
This is one of those stories that no one thinks about until it may be too late. It's no secret that thousands of homes are being abandoned in the US due to the property crash, but I never thought that people not...New Urbanism's Moses comes to Tsawwassen
Trevor Boddy critiques a proposed new urbanist development in South Delta as "a last-gasp attempt to reform suburbanism from within,before high energy prices and new respect for land compels much denserdevelopment." "The 13th of May brought several downer developments — and...
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