Adam's Ideas

YouTube comments are perhaps the dumbest on the internet I found this gem after watching the above the video:

limshNoobHater (1 hour ago)
Obviously fake. A canon ball would sink in water even if it’s metal water. Metal water is still water. Common sense.

Step 1
Become a Conservative Party MP (you can join any party, but the Conservatives will help you with their insensitivity training)

Step 2
Raffle off a handgun in an area that is plagued by easy to get handguns that gangs use to kill one another.

The Star has the scoop on this stupid conservative MP giving away guns:

A Saskatchewan Conservative MP is coming under fire for his starring role at a gun lobby dinner in the Greater Toronto area next month where the raffle prize is a Beretta semi-automatic handgun.

Garry Breitkreuz is the guest speaker at the Canadian Shooting Sports Association’s (CSSA) annual general meeting and dinner on April 18 in Mississauga, where he’s to be lauded for his private member’s bill to abolish Canada’s controversial long-gun registry and relax rules on prohibited and restricted weapons.

The “special dinner draw” of this “very rare and valuable collector’s item” is advertised on the association’s website. Raffle tickets will be sold at the dinner for $20 each or three for $50.

News of the gun prize drew immediate outrage.

“We have got to be finding ways to get (handguns) off the streets, not handing them out as prizes,” Liberal MP Mark Holland (Ajax-Pickering) said yesterday.

“It really is an insult to a community that has seen so much gun violence and where so many people have been killed … to give that away as a (raffle) prize.”

I know this is nothing new to anyone, but the current team of Conservatives MPs in Ottawa don’t believe in something called “science”.

I find this to be exceptional though:

Canada’s science minister, the man at the centre of the controversy over federal funding cuts to researchers, won’t say if he believes in evolution.

So the science minister is basically hinting that he doesn’t believe in science. WTF?!

So the CTV megamediacorp asks for clarification. What does the minister say, well, he uses an argument that he thinks supports evolution that clearly makes no sense:

“We are evolving every year, every decade. That’s a fact, whether it is to the intensity of the sun, whether it is to, as a chiropractor, walking on cement versus anything else, whether it is running shoes or high heels, of course we are evolving to our environment. But that’s not relevant and that is why I refused to answer the question. The interview was about our science and tech strategy, which is strong.”

Just to be clear, I couldn’t care less if he believes that god created the universe (besides we all know that I created it), but not believing in scientific fact that animals and plants evolve in change over time – insane!

Another sign that the Conservatives under Harper are destroying Canada. Or are they achieving their goal of making us the USA?

… is by reading that suburbia is dying and it will never return to the “vibrancy” it once had. Fast Company reports that Suburbia is Dead. Yippeee!

The demand for suburban homes may never recover, given the long-term prospects of energy costs for commuting and heating, and the prohibitive inefficiencies of low-density construction. The whole suburban idea was founded on disposable spending and the promise of cheap gas. Without them, it may wither. A study by the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech predicts that by 2025 there will be as many as 22 million unwanted large-lot homes in suburban areas.

Streaming Colour developed and iPhone app called Dapple and it cost them 32k to make. Their sales are not even near the break-even mark despite the fact that Dapple has got stellar reviews and decent blog publicity including from Slashdot.

First there was a blog post about the sales data:

Dapple has sold 131 copies worldwide in the 24 days since it launched. I realise that I’m dealing with a very limited amount of data here, so I’m not going to pretend like I can make any kind of long term projections about how sales will be in a month, six months, or a year. However, what you can see is how far from my goal of 9,150 I remain. So…

That got posted to Slashdot and now there is a post about what happened after being on Slashdot.

Several people wrote Streaming Colour very angry emails to tell us that they were angry with us, or that they disagreed with our strategies or choices in game design. We’re very sorry that you feel that way. We hope that when Dapple Lite comes out that you will try it, and then you can make a decision for yourself about whether the game is worth your money or not. That’s really all we can ask.

I have no idea why people bother to send angry emails to random people on the internet and attack the developer for releasing sales info. Why is the internet so stupid and mean?

Zack Snyder has ruined the Watchmen. Allan Moore was right, you can’t film his stories. I’m warning you now to not waste your time and energy by watching Watchmen.

They made so many small changes to the Moore’s story that when all these changes are put together you get a steaming pile of dog shit served on the remnants of rotting squirrel carcasses. They changed the ending of the story in such a way that they have arguably changed the meaning of the story.

I could go on forever about how bad the watchmen film is, but I don;t want to start my day ranting.

Just don’t watch the Watchmen.

When it comes to the new Watchmen ending, Hitler’s right:

According to Moore, David Hayter’s script “was as close as [he] could imagine anyone getting to Watchmen.” However, Moore added, “I shan’t be going to see it. My book is a comic book. Not a movie, not a novel. A comic book. It’s been made in a certain way, and designed to be read a certain way: in an armchair, nice and cozy next to a fire, with a steaming cup of coffee.”

– Wikipedia

Who watches the Watchmen? Sadly, I did.