Use The Lies

The thrust of this Globe & Mail article is to reassure Canadians that we will, in fact, have an H1N1 vaccine before those in other countries - even though we have only just begun clinical trials and have no plan or date for rolling it out.

What is interesting, is that in the sidebar of the article there is a video titled "Swine flu vaccine available in U.S."

And yet the Globe headline, "Canadians will get H1N1 shots faster than others: official" stands, catching unawares those too lazy to read beyond the headline and first paragraph.


Update (15OCT09): More from Reuters about how others are getting shots faster; "Britain to start swine flu vaccination Oct. 21"

Blogs Are Dead

You know it. I know it. This blog has suffered because of it. Why? I'm micro-blogging with the world in the Twitterverse. And Facebook. And Flickr. If you want to, you can follow my tweets here: @LaSpage.

See this old Wired article for proof of the blog's demise.

2010 Uniblahs

The Olympic uniforms for Team Canada have been revealed! Are they modern? Do they match? Is there any continuity? Do they look like uniforms? No. Those four models could just be a group of people you see any day in town.

Of course, it makes sense that athletes are just given regular street clothes this year since all this cold-weather gear probably won't be seen much by the public. The opening ceremonies are being held indoors where t-shirts will suffice, and parkas and toques will be ridiculous.