A 57-year old Toronto cyclist was killed recently when a woman opened her car door without looking and sent him flying into traffic.
She was charged and fined $110.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2008/06/28/6013691-sun.html
I’m not even sure what to say about this.
Now I can sleep at night knowing that my life is worth $110.
Dear President Bush,
Offshore oil drilling is not the answer.
It’s a pathetic short-term response to high oil prices, with high potential for massive long term devastation.
It’s such a bad idea that even your own father, George Bush Sr., signed off the offshore drilling ban during his presidency.
At best you’ll get a modest and brief drop in gas prices, but in the long run fuel costs are not going down.
You’re probably hoping that a last-minute response to the oil crisis will end your presidency in a good light. Sorry to say, but history will not vindicate you.
The upcoming Guns N’ Roses record, ironically titled “Chinese Democracy”, in all likelihood does not exist at all and is just the most hilarious PR joke in history.
So oil is hovering at somewhere around $135/barrel and the whole word is freaking out…
I think this is great.
It’s wonderful that car drivers finally have to bear the financial brunt of their environmental impact.
I take some morbid fascination in that cab companies might be forced out of business and the streets will be safer for cyclists.
On that note, I’m also happy to see more cyclists on Toronto streets than ever before.
It’s amazing that gas prices are soaring past $1.35/L at a time when environmental crisis is looming.
Not to mention that skyrocketing energy costs are finally putting a financial incentive on efficient/renewable energy.
And riding my bike past gridlocked Ferraris still doesn’t cost a thing.
Kudos to you, insane oil prices!
Why does Microsoft not just buy Facebook??
Yahoo is an old school web company on the way out; Facebook is growing like a cancer.
Over 70 million people feed their crackbook habit on a daily basis and you’ve already got tons of their personal data saved away. Where’s the advertising money at?
Facebook has the business model and forward-thinking mentality that this old timey software company is lacking. They also cost a fraction of Yahoo, who haven’t been relevant in years.
As the Economist so wisely put it, “Watching Microsoft in the company of Google and Facebook is a bit like watching your dad trying to be cool.”