More specifically, rumor has it that Apple is going to “divert” a “large percentage” of their iPhone stock away from the Canadian market and into the hands of European distributors. As a result of reallocation, many Rogers stores may only have 10-20 units ready to go on launch day later this week. mobile magazine

I want an iPhone but I will not die if I don’t get it until Christmas with a reasonable data plan.

I rather suspect that Apple was none too pleased to get a gazillion emails from people who a) would have bought the iPhone, b) would have started looking at Apple’s other products.

Nice work Ted!

Sirtris’ resveratrol formulation is now in Phase II clinical trials for diabetes. When it hits the market in four or five hears, David Sinclair [co-founder of Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, discovered the molecule resveratrol. Sirtis Pharmaceuticals was bought by GlaxoSmithKline for $720 million] said, “It’ll be on the market as a diabetes drug. It’ll have to sell for $3 or $4 a pill, in order to stay competitive.” The company is also working with other molecules — potential drugs — that are unrelated to resveratrol but also stimulate the SIRT1 gene. Some of the molecules could be up to 1,000 times more potent than resveratrol, he added. next big future

4 bucks a day for 3-13 extra years of life…a Mountain can of Stella a day. I’m there.

Fatuous twaddle and, if you follow the link, lots more where that comes from.

Brown is not an idiot; he must know that “enhanced dialogue” between producers and consumers will result in nothing.

The basis of dialogue is power and until the West weans itself from oil - which is going to take a while - the reality is that money talks and bullshit walks. Jumpers all round in the increasingly colder England.

Described the project director, “My measure of success is that the International Olympic Committee bans everything we do. brookings institute

Well worth a Sunday morning read.

And that is just your computer…the third parties are a whole other story.

I suspect the prospect of another few months of public mockery followed by an unprecedented loss either before the Commissions or in the Courts was more than a little unappetizing. Plus, and I have no way of proving this, the steady erosion of support for the CHRC and the exposure of the CHRC’s wanton disregard for proper investigative methods and procedure, is taking its toll.

A couple of points - Toronto area bloggers, if possible - should try to cover the press conference. Macleans should be looking for an apology and costs from these sock puppets. Remember, the law students are not, in fact, the complainants here. The CIC is and it has the money to pay the significant expenses Macleans has incurred to date.

This is yet another piece of evidence we’re winning.

Update: Steyn “Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You”

Update 2: Deborah Gyapong comes up with a reasonable negotiating position: Unconditional surrender with reparations and an apology.

Update 3: Over in “>Lying Jackal land commentors are handing Warren his head on a platter. He’s banned me from his comments - the truth hurts - but the unbanned are going to town. Now, remember, use that link. Page after page of “Lying Jackal” referrals. Has to leave a mark.

Much, much too close. We are, no doubt, entering the era of a serious exploration and colonization of near Earth Space; but we would do well to remember that literally hundreds of ships were lost on the route to North America. It will take decades before space travel is actually safe in any sort of statistically meaningful sense.

But, still, we must go.

My very old pals in Shaunavon Sask are sitting pretty because the Bakken forgot to stop at the Canada US border.

It is much worse than a sad day for free speech on the net - it is proof that militant Islam can overpower our most basic rights. Fitna was political commentary. It had footage which was widely available. What made it unacceptable to the Islamofascists is that it made the direct link between the terror and atrocities committed by radical Islamists and the nature of Islam.

HotAir reassures:

Don’t worry, the film’s still around. Google Video has it for the moment and I hear that it’s up and down on YouTube too. When all else fails, just search for “fitna” and “torrent” and all should be well. They don’t call it “viral video” for nothing: Once it’s released into the population, you can never quite stamp it out. LiveLeak did its job for as long as it needed to. hotair

And HotAir points out that the threats which caused LiveLeak to pull the film has pretty much proven Wilders’ point.

I have downloaded a copy from http://www.sendspace.com/file/bodnck

h/t sda

But Kurzweil had a special confidence that grew from a habit of mind he’d been cultivating for years: He thought exponentially. To illustrate what this means, consider the following quiz: 2, 4, ?, ?.

What are the missing numbers? Many people will say 6 and 8. This suggests a linear function. But some will say the missing numbers are 8 and 16. This suggests an exponential function. (Of course, both answers are correct. This is a test of thinking style, not math skills.) wired

Now I am not a math whiz but isn’t another possible sequence 2, 4, 16, 256…ie. 2×2=4, 4×4=16, 16×16=256.

Stuff can happen very, very fast.