Well, a new trailer has just hit the web for the new documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car? It seems yet another film focused on blaming the giant car-manufacturer, General Motors.
The official site provides this small tagline to go with the movie: “In 1996 Electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust, and ran without gasoline. Who Killed the Electric Car?”
The movie will be hitting this summer. Stay tuned for details.
OK- now here’s something strange for you. Last night, it was The Amazing Race finale. After a thrilling episode, the Hippies (BJ & Tyler) came out on top. They won the million dollar prize. The final challenge was to look for the flags of all the countries they had visited during the race. I guess going to Stanford and Harvard paid off.
As the Frat Boys (Eric & Jeremy) said, “We didn’t know the last challenge was gonna be brains.”
Well, in the season finale, teams were sent racing across Japan. The entire time, Tyler bragged that he knew Japanease and that he had walked across the entire country. We assumed he was exaggerating.
Guess what?
He wasn’t.
Click here to watch the full length feature movie of Tyler backpacking across Japan. Or visit the official website.
As of posting, tickets were still available, and for $50.50. That includes a ferry trip to the Island - how thoughtful!
Still not sure? Check out the latest video from BSS, thoughfully provided on YouTube. If you watch carefully, there’s even a scene where they are driving along Lakeshore West in winter. Or read the lengthy article written about them in a Februrary article in the New York Times: “Musically, you could say that Toronto has become a nicer but less aesthetically coherent version of Seattle in the early days of grunge.”
So the new MacBook is out. Starting at $1,249 (all prices Canadian), and with a Intel core duo, full-size keyboard, Bluetooth, wireless, 13″ widescreen and iSight camera all standard, lots of people are going to buy these.
But what’s with the black one? It’s only on the high-end model ($1,649), but according to their comparasion chart, all you get extra is a larger hard drive. You can even configure the white one with the exact same features for $1,509.
I don’t know what’s more sad: that Apple is charging $140 to get a different colour, or the fact that lots of people will probably end up getting it anyways.
May 17, 2006 at 12:11 pm · Filed under Business, News
Torontoist picks up a story that Dose will no longer be published as a free daily magazine. However, CanWest will be maintaining their website, folding it into their canada.com network.
I think Dose published some genuinely interesting features during their run, providing a more national focus than most. This was especially true compared with the otherfree dailies, which were largely press-release driven and Toronto-centric. Ultimately, though, their desire to reach profitability led to sponsored front-pages and pushes to include a younger segment, putting me off completely.