A Graph of Gas Prices Since 1919

This will make your Hummer look even dumber..."Remember those really, really high gas prices of the late 1970s and early 1980s? Well, we're past that and still climbing. From the U.S. Energy Information Administration:To quote Stein's Law, "If something cannot go on forever,...

ComScore’s Top Start-ups in Canada

I'm not a huge believer in Alexa's numbers but as I'm fond of saying, "in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king"."Everytime we publish our monthly Techvibes Start-Up Indexes, there are always a few complaints about the use of Alexa and Compete data...

Vancouver real estate; listings up, sales down

The number of apartments and homes listed for sale in Vancouver is skyrocketing while the number of sales is down dramatically.  With these fundamentals it is likely only a matter of time before prices start...

Nine Inch Nails Tracks Downloads of 'The Slip' via Google Earth

This is the first time I've seen this done.  Pretty cool.  Fan geo-location."Over 1.4 million unique users have downloaded the free Nine Inch Nails album The Slip, according to the band, since they posted...

Defend Fair Copyright in Canada

All Canadians should be worried about this."Following pressure from the U.S. government and entertainment lobbies, the Canadian government announced sweeping changes to Canadian copyright law. The changes mirror...

Merrill says GM bankruptcy "not impossible"

I guess that whole SUV thing was a bit short sighted..."DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp (GM.N) will need to raise as much as $15 billion in cash to shore up liquidity and bankruptcy is "not impossible" if...

Shel Israel: About Loren Feldman & Michael Arrington

Shel Israel fires back at Loren Feldman of 1938 Media:"More than once a day, nearly every day, for the last three months I have been asked how I feel about Loren Feldman's sock puppet and seemingly unending shots at me from his Twitter pulpit. My answer is pretty...

Peak Oil Mania

Wow.  That didn’t take long.  Back in December when everyone was compiling lists about what the best gadgets of the year were or other nonsense, Jim Kunstler was predicting that 2008 would be the year of...

Online news sites powered by ordinary users offer different points of view

I recently did an interview with the Canadian Press.  Here is an excerpt from the final piece:"But the website's founder, Michael Tippett, says objectivity is less important than ensuring readers have access to...

please let me in

as usual I forgot my elevator pass. its not usually a problem but because of the holiday I'm stuck outside the office. can someone come down and let me in? thx :)

Supreme Court of Canada Unanimously Defrosts Libel Chill

Good news for free speech supporters in Canada:"The media should not live in constant fear of facing a libel suit every time a provocative commentary is published or broadcast, the Supreme Court of Canada said yesterday in a major ruling won by controversial Vancouver radio...

Vancouver, Say farewell to the Green Zone

On the face of it this just seems like a very, very dumb idea.  Don't these people read the papers (or even trade mags for Christ's sake)?  Even Hellman's has figured out that food security is one of the fastest growing concerns people have.  I thought BC was...

Condo with a crotch mascot

"I once met a guy who told me he was comfortable with one-night stands so long as they didn’t involve interlocking fingers at any point during or after sex. As he explained, “finger interlocking is a sign of great intimacy and love” and he couldn’t handle that. What...

long lines at horseshoe bay ferry terminal

line ups are stretching all the way up to the highway at the horseshoe bay terminal.

long lines at horseshoe bay ferry terminal

line ups are stretching all the way up to the highway at the horseshoe bay terminal.

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