Author Archives: Niall Murphy

The Canadian Radiotelecommunications Commission (CRTC) has proposed a usage-based internet billing system. If it survives federal scrutiny, will leave consumers typically paying over $2 per gigabyte for all bandwidth usage over a modest 25GB.

It’s called ‘metered internet’. More money, less internet.

HardCop reader Brian S-Q sums it all up rather succinctly in the image above.

CRTC Internet Decision Gouges Users (The Vancouver Sun)

Canada Gets Its First Bitter Dose Of Metered Internet (Ars Technica)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVw06f6l6o4&feature=player_embedded

A supercut of fine-ass Hollywood flattery that’s actually a promo for this new service.

For $10, you can have them ring up the loved one of your choice and sweet-talk the pants off them. If that’s how you choose to roll this Valentine’s Day.

buzzfeed

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8jeuYMHX9Y

A skit promo for Discovery’s The Learning Channel by the comedy sketch group Mostly Water.

Works just as well for TV3, BBC3, Sky, Watch, Living, etc.

Still, we’d watch Cake Whores in a heartbeat.

Educational Television: Who’s The Target Demographic? (Huffington Post)

urlesque/image: TheLogoFactory

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOFNjKUbOgg

The Mars-rover style ANTS concept by Finnish tractor manufacturer Valtra, currently celebrating its 60th anniversary and looking to the future of muck spreadin’, ploughin’ and bale liftin’.

Get up in that cab, ya pup, ya.

jalopnik

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sODWrEHPZFY

A peptastic supercut featuring the kind of team-building rhetoric that any campaign co-ordinator would give their right tentacle for.

GOD DAMMIT, ARE YOU STOKED?

OK, let’s get out there, people. And horrify the electorate.

screenjunkies