By dfred on April 6, 2008 - 10:16am
If your employer or corrupt, undemocratic, dictator-based government uses a filtering service to block access to any particular blog, ezvancouver.com might be one of them. Here is an excerpt of a press comment from a US source:
"THERE are lots of ways to describe the new ezvancouver blog, the Web's obliquely subtitled "The Vancouver Blog Everyone Talks About" which already attracts hundreds of thousands of eyeballs worldwide to its unappeasable, digital scroll of high-weirdness.
It’s a site where, on a given Friday morning, there were links to video games that helps kids to brush their teeth, Internet rights for Canadian bloggers, “a new design for a washing machine and a toilet all in one” and a new Body Armor T-Shirt made in Japan.
But nudity?
"Access denied by a software filter content category," was the message an engineer in downtown Vancouver said he received last Wednesday when he tried to visit ezvancouver.com from his office computer. A colleague recommended the site to him because there was an interesting post. The message he got is the following: "The requested URL belongs to the following categories: Entertainment/Recreation/Hobbies, Nudity."
Yep.
By dfred on March 29, 2008 - 2:41pm
Frederic says, "For your information, your ISP does not own the Internet. No one owns the Internet, and no single person or organization controls it. There are, however, organizations that oversee and standardize what’s going on the Internet and assign Internet Protocol addresses and domain names. The Internet Engineering Task Force, ICANN, InterNIC and the Internet Architecture Board are among these organizations.[...]ISP companies like Bell and Rogers charge a fee for the use of their servers that have access to the Internet, that’s all. They do not own the Internet. It’s certainly not Rogers Communication or Bell that have a right to charge fees to download content on the Internet."[ezvancouver - Vancouver Blog]
By dfred on March 22, 2008 - 5:03pm
I was at the Vancouver Tibet Rally this afternoon at 1 PM. On March 10 2008, Tibetans around the world celebrated the 47th anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising. While Tibetans living in big cities such as Paris and New York are protesting, demonstrators in downtown Vancouver are currently staging renewed protests for the reinstatement of their Theocracy and also against the Chinese occupation and human rights violations in Tibet.
More on this: The Vancouver Blog
By dfred on February 27, 2008 - 10:41am
Sir Richard Branson, who announced that they did the first Airbus flight to use synthetic fuel. The problem is that the bio-fuel that he created uses some nut (babassu nuts) from the Amazon rain forest. We don’t claim to be above the average Joe, Sir Richard, but we are thinkers—don’t you think that’s going to hack off the rain forest environmentalists?
Source: Vancouver City Blog
By dfred on February 19, 2008 - 3:39pm
Extend your green lifestyle to your visit to Vancouver. If that’s too extreme, try a Vancouver green hotel or explore local landscapes. Here are 7 tips on how to make your next trip to Vancouver more eco-friendly.
1. Where possible, walk: Start with the simplest option first. Don’t drive everywhere, walk those small trips. In stating the obvious, by leaving the car behind and simply walking or riding a bike you are doing both yourself and the environment good. Not only will you save money on fuel and the general upkeep of car but other knock on effects include the improved outdoor air quality and reduction on road congestion.
2. Bus: Public transport is rarely as good as it could be, but (where possible) using public bus transport is great way of getting about. Most towns and cities have adequate bus coverage. Furthermore, you won’t get lost just as easy when the driver knows where they’re going!
3. Hotel: Vancouver counts many green hotels. During your hotel stay, try not to waste energy unnecessarily by continuing what you perhaps already practice at home. You can do this by turning off the tv, switching all the lights off and turning the A/C or heat down where you go out. Also, you could opt for short showers and use your own toiletries instead of the small and usually over-packaged small hotel toiletries.
By dfred on January 15, 2008 - 11:01am
Japanese scientists have unveiled the most human-looking robot to date, well at least in the public domain. Secret research is being done now which looks towards the future to build robots so real they will fool humans, in other words they maybe sitting next to you and you would never even know it. The Japanese scientists call their new robot android Repliee Q1 Expo. She flutters her eyelids in normal human increments, looks like she is breathing and moves her hands just like a human would. This robot has over 42 actuators. But indeed, this is merely the first step in human type robotics.
Read more about Sex with robots by clicking the link below:
Sex With Robots
By dfred on January 7, 2008 - 1:38pm
Hello everybody,
Vancouverology is finally here, about 2 weeks late, but it is here. Today, without any buzz, we have launched our multi-boards Vancouver Social Forums. Take a look at it and post your comments and questions.
So quick, go ahead, VISIT the boards at VANCOUVEROLOGY.COM
By dfred on June 2, 2007 - 2:32pm
The Vancouver Blog
By dfred on January 25, 2005 - 12:22pm
Is homelessness a crime? That's what groups working with Vancouver's homeless are fearing now that new rules promises a police crackdown on petty crime and other "incivilities."
Last year, when the Provincial government voted its Safe Streets Act, it stressed it had listened to citizens' concerns. New rules give Vancouver City Police new calling codes to classify the petty crimes that citizens and police officers call in to police stations. Included on the list? Bothersome presence of homeless people, the bothersome presence of beggars, the presence of squeegees and the gathering of youth in public areas.
A cop told me that the codes don't reflect new crimes but are simply new categories to keep better statistics on petty crimes.
Vancouver Police is criminalizing homelessness. Homelessness is treated as an incivility when it's really a life situation.
Perhaps more disturbing for the homeless and their advocates is the way in which the codes send a message to the general public that homeless people are somehow dangerous or harmful, or that there's something not quite right about them. It discourages co-existence.
Never mind that homeless people receive tickets no one else ever gets, for instance for crossing a street on a red light or for butting out a cigarette. They can't pay the tickets and often end up in jail during peak tourism season for unpaid tickets.
