The Myth is Busted: Americans are taxed MORE than Canadians!
“Yeah, free health-care and far less crime is great, but don’t Canadians pay a lot more taxes than Americans?”
No, we don’t. Americans pay more in personal income taxes than Canadians. Here’s proof.
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Stupid-ass Web Error Message of the Week
Zero or more numerics? Doesn’t every password have zero or more numbers in it?!
From Cineplex Odeon Canada’s web site. When I called tech support, the guy told me to “wait about 10-15 minutes and maybe it’ll go away.” Yeah. ‘Cause that’s the way programming works.
Your Cell Phone Is Tracking You
Satellite tracking isn’t new… we’ve had G-P-S around for years. But you may be surprised at what they’re starting to do with the technology now. For one, you may be being tracked without your knowledge…. and no satellites are involved at all!
CBC becomes first broadcaster to distribute a prime-time show via Bit-Torrent (DRM-free!)
Canada’s public broadcaster, CBC Television, will be using bit-torrent to distribute its popular Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister after it airs on terrestrial broadcast (Sunday night at 7:00 p.m.)
The CBC has dabbled in bit-torrent before — the now-cancelled late-night arts show ZeD torrented its final episode a few years back — but the show’s crew believes this will mark the first time a major broadcaster in North America provides a DRM-free torrent of a prime-time program.
This year’s show really began online. CBC was the first Canadian broadcaster to use YouTube to cast the show where our results were:
- 144 people auditioned
- 500+ videos (video responses made this the largest online political debate in Canadian history)
- 270,000+ views
- 2500 comments
Facebook was big too with over 7500 members joining 50 groups about the show. We also created a dozen behind-the-scenes Podcasts showcasing our 10 semi-finalists who were hand picked from our YouTube search.
Oops.
In my attempt to prepare my database and server for Wordpress 2.5, it seems I wiped out a number of post categories. And, of course, the posts that went with them.
{sigh}
It’s okay, actually, I’m going to take one of my twice-annual breaks from the Interwebs for a bit while I deal with some other matters in my life.
See y’all on the other side.
(Y’all?! Oh, tell me that didn’t rub off on me in Austin this past weekend…)
Connectomics Photos
On this week’s tech column, I mentioned the incredible brain-mapping currently being done by a new innovation known as Connectomics. More info and photos of the maps are here.
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