So Sparkfun had a big sale yesterday. $100 worth of free stuff until they hit $100000. I diligently filled my shopping cart a few days ahead in hopes of making a quick beeline to the payment section once the contest opened. Well it turns out that they had 100 000+ people hammering [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Rants'
Did They Get Health Care Or Not?
December 23rd, 2009 · 8 Comments · Rants
That’s the question I’m left with today. The Americans are getting very close to passaing a health care bill. Thousands of pages long, addressing the multitude of system failures they have, yet those watching are left to wonder. Did they fix it?
With health insurance companies running strong in the stock market, it’s [...]
Tags: US
Death Panels Will Kill You And Your Loved Ones
August 11th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Rants
Well, it now seems pretty clear as to how President Obama is going to solve the US health care crisis. This is important to we Canadians because we have health care issues of our own and finding out what our neighbours are doing can be a benefit. Clearly we can’t use the UK [...]
Tags: health care
When Ads Move From Optimistic To Offensive
July 23rd, 2009 · 8 Comments · Rants
Advertisers like to present things in their best light. There’s nothing specifically wrong with that as long as you keep things reasonable. Sure you can say that a product will make your life “better” even though there’s no specific evidence to that fact. Sometimes though, advertisers go too far and start to [...]
Tags: advertising
Flex Fuel In Canada Is A Total Failure
June 28th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Rants
So rather than push hybrid technology, which works well in urban settings but not well for highway driving, the US automakers took on FlexFuel (reduces emissions in both the city and highway) vehicles as an environmental centrepiece. Turns out that it wasn’t such a good idea as it’s not been terribly successful towards the [...]
Tags: cars·environment
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
June 21st, 2009 · 19 Comments · Rants
“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised“, is a phrase that anyone with any amount of subversive spirit will be familiar with. I always knew what the phrase was alluding to, but it has been repeating in my head over and over as I watch clips and read accounts of what’s happening in Iran.
It’s so [...]