Around The Blogosphere

Around The Blogosphere 25 Comments

Kicking off a new category today. As some may have noticed, I’ve been unable to enable trackbacks since they became a favoured target of spammers. So, in the tradition of “Reader Tips”, I’ll be hosting dedicated threads for blog tips instead. Please don’t use these for media items or comments. You can use hyperlinks, but it does increase the risk of your submission getting caught in the spam filter. The safest way to leave a link to a blog post is to provide the simple url for readers to cut and paste into their browsers, along with a brief description.
Important – if your post isn’t work safe, has disturbing images, or contains excessive profanity, please warn readers of that fact.
You can still send blog posts privately, but some days I get so many suggestions there sometimes isn’t time to properly review them all. (Or space to use them).
Thanks, and we’ll see how it goes.

25 Replies to “Around The Blogosphere”

  2. Spammers. Who are they ? Just punk wreckers ? Or are they organized, with major funding ?? Impossible to tell ??

  3. I noted that the weblog awards voying taking place.While trolling today,I see Kate has got that piece of filth at another “Blahg” concerned!Hmm,jealous of all the hits at SDA?Nice of him torefer to our Kate as a “skank”,and beg for votes! I have also observed,that at his site,comments section usually has 3-4,same tired old remarks,from same tired old people.Major envy,that SDA can get over 100 comments,or more!Too funny!

  7. Over at the Prince of Hate’s site – myblagh – one of the maggots comments:
    Montreal Simon says:
    “Well done Robert! And thanks again for organizing the Blog Awards. And you can be sure we’ll do all we can to make sure that stinky hatemongering skank loser doesn’t win again. If those Weblog Awards people had any sense, they’d fix things so she doesn’t win either. Judging by the kind of mouthbreathing bigot scum she attracts…three of their votes only add up to one brain…and so three of their votes should only count for one…Good luck!!!”
    Oh, the hypocricy (heh). Notice the word, ‘hatemongering’ in context. Also notice the total hate on for democracy. And finally, notice the Islamofascist like superiority claim, rendered by dehumanizing the enemy. Oh, not to mention the seething hate towards the opposite sex.
    This kids, is an excellent example of the left at its finest. Any question why they need to be crushed and embarrassed in every endevour?

  10. stephentaylor.ca: Has a thread on Jane Taber’s interview with Dion and his fossil award. It sounds like he’s getting english lessons from Jean Chretien.
    Dion: “Yes, because of the record of the record other the years. Not because of my own achievement. To the contrary –”

  14. stevejanke.com has a memo of what McLellan knew and when she knew it. I almost wish she was still in the house to see her squirm. Hopefully Harper will find a new Commissioner that is going to go after these lying crooks.

  16. re Silk stocking’s comment re the angry women … see our comment on Kate’s original post Dec 5 11:45 –
    “Whois shows who registered the http://www.thewomenareangry.org website.
    http://tinyurl.com/vt37z
    A quick google on her name shows that she works for the Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health which is funded by the Bureau of Women’s Health and Gender Analysis of Health Canada!
    tsk,tsk.”
    But hey we just care that they are outed. These women have irons in the fire and are not declaring it.

  18. cal2:
    Glen Clark was an idiot who wouldn’t listen. They would have been better off building a fleet of super ferries. However, at least the money stayed in the BC economy.
    Gordon Campbell is a bigger idiot, basically giving the ferries away to try and make the NDP look bad. From your link:
    “Gordon Campbell of the BC Liberals auctioned off the PacifiCat fleet on March 24, 2003 for $19.4 million ($6.5 million/vessel) to the Washington Marine Group. Further controversy erupted when it was revealed that the same company had offered $60 million for the vessels prior to the auction.”
    And now:
    “With the 2010 Winter Olympics to be hosted in Vancouver, some have speculated that the BC Government of the day may lease back the ferries from the new owners to shuttle commuters between downtown Vancouver, the Airport and Squamish (near Whistler, planned site of several sports).”

  20. Drop by my experiment 101people.blogspot.com as I count down 101 people who are screwing up Canada based on reader suggestions and my own observations. Cheers.

  21. bloglinks.
    a naturally progression in the maturation of SDA.
    portends good things.
    bravo Katherine !!!

  23. Extra good quality Hype? or worthwhile?
    Looks better to me than Ballard.
    www[.]rexresearch.com/weir/weir.htm
    Has all the information from various press and blog reports as well as the very informative patent.
    John Doerr, a partner with Kleiner Perkins, reportedly told an audience at an investors’ conference in January that an energy storage company, which he would not name, represented the VC’s “highest-risk, highest-reward” investment. It’s widely assumed he was referring to EEStor.
    Adding more intrigue to the story is the fact that Colin Powell, the former U.S. secretary of state, joined Kleiner Perkins last summer as a strategic partner. Sources speculate Powell has been briefed on EEStor, which from a government and military perspective could bolster the Bush administration’s energy security policy and efforts to break America’s * addiction to oil.*
    * It’s one thing to have the greatest new technology, but another to get it out into the field, * says Richard Baxter, an energy-storage expert and researcher at New York-based Ardour Capital Investments LLC, who sees huge potential in ultracap technology.
    * Kleiner’s great for opening up the door.*
    Besides Kleiner’s involvement, EEStor has also attracted big names to its five-person board. The Star has learned that Morton Topfer, former vice-chairman of Dell Computer Corp. and widely known as Michael Dell’s mentor, has joined the company as a director. Topfer founded and is managing director of Austin-based private equity firm Castletop Capital LP and has close and invaluable ties to big Texas money.
    Michael Long, CEO of online real-estate giant Homestore Inc., is also on the board. His experience with Homestore and as CEO of several companies before that could prove useful as EEStor inches closer to commercialization.
    There’s a Canadian angle to all of this. Before Kleiner’s involvement, EEStor struck a relationship with Toronto-based Feel Good Cars that has translated into a $2.5 million (U.S.) licensing agreement. Feel Good makes low-speed electric cars and wants to use EEStor’s technology to power its next-generation vehicles, which could hit the market as early as 2007.
    Ian Clifford, the company’s co-founder and CEO, says he has secured exclusive worldwide rights to purchase EEStor’s product for use in any vehicle up to 1,200 kilograms, about the size of a Honda Civic. It also has non-exclusive rights to use the technology in other vehicles excluding SUVs and pick-ups.
    According to patent documents, EEStor describes the day when gas stations evolve into * electrical energy stations, * that store energy overnight when electricity is cheap and sell it like gasoline during daytime. Drivers could pull in and recharge their EEStor-powered car in a few minutes the same way we now fill up with gasoline.
    The company pegs the potential electric vehicle market at $40 billion (U.S.) a year, but figures its total opportunity — military, utility and electronics markets — approaches $150 billion.
    Clifford is waiting anxiously for the results of independent testing, which are expected this spring and will trigger another licensing payment from Feel Good. “The implications of this technology go well beyond transportation,* says Clifford. “EEStor, for us, would be a dream come true.*
    Clean Break reports on energy technologies. Reach Tyler Hamilton at thamilt@thestar.ca
    US Patent # 7,033,406 April 25, 2006
    [ PDF Format ]
    Electrical-Energy-Storage Unit (EESU) Utilizing Ceramic and Integrated-Circuit Technologies to Replace Electrochemical Batteries
    Weir, Richard D. (Cedar Park, TX); Nelson, Carl W. (Austin, TX)
    From Wikipedia article * Super capacitors *:
    As of spring 2006, EEStor Inc. claims to have a supercapacitor with a barium titanate dielectric nearing production. The company claims a unit with 31 farads capacitance and an operating voltage of 3.5 kV, capable of storing up to 340 Wh/kg and charging or discharging at up to 3.5 kW/Kg (52 kWh = 187 MJ and 520 kW – 6 minute charging time – for the 152 Kg unit), lifetime of over 1,000,000 discharge cycles and leakage of less than 0.1% per month [US Patent 7,033,406]with a cost of $40-$60 per kWh ($3,200 – $2,100 per unit). [BusinessWeek , 3 September 2005]. The technology is scheduled for third-party verification during the summer of 2006.
    ========== Look carefully at investor / director names.
    This is info only. . . Not investment advice. = TG

  25. An unnamed Liberal spokesperson, today compared Stephen Harper to the Bubonic Plague, which swept through the medieval world killing millions of people…
    “What the frig is this guy up to?” cried the shadowy figure, who insisted on anonymity. “If this Angel of Death keeps on actually doing stuff, we’ll never get back in.”

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