Meanwhile, Ibrahim's real estate agent is a little worried about his commission. "I think about it every day," Asim Khan said with a laugh.

Apparently if you're Enbridge, Ontario's primary natural gas provider, you charge your customers another fee:

Enbridge is set to charge its Ontario customers a new fee to help pay the costs of an out-of-court settlement. In 2004, the Supreme Court ruled against the gas company -- for charging unfair fees.

Researchers...note that although Jenkins cannot remember his father's cell phone number (415-547-6823) off the top of his head, he can recite without hesitation the password that allows you to view the credits in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!

Indian engineers at Tata Motors have pared the car down in an effort that would make IKEA proud. The analog speedometer is only precise within +/-10 kph - but that's okay, since it is fitted with a 30 horsepower engine.

Some corners were also cut with respect to safety, durability and emissions. Nevertheless, like discount airlines, or Ford's Model T in turn-of-the-century America or MIT's OLPC (aka the "$100 laptop"), this car will revolutionize travel in the moped and bicycle clogged streets of India.

Personally, I think we need a lot more Web 2.0 companies paying employees with stock and giving things out for free before things get more dire.

Oh, and for us Gen-X and Gen-Yers, here is the definitive pictorial animation of the Billy Joel original.

Bell Canada:

Rogers:

The TTC flatly refused, claiming calling stops would be "a hardship" and a "potential safety risk" to their drivers.

Lepofsky brought his case to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. So began two legal battles took twelve years.

The court discovered that the TTC rules and regulations already dictate drivers must call stops. And a few decent TTC employees always have. It's even written in the TTC Ride Guide, a free pamphlet and transit map given to transit riders. Every transit vehicle is already equipped with mike and public announcement system. Some buses are even equipped with fancy flexible boom mikes for hands-free use.

In 2005, the tribunal ruled in favour of Lepofsky regarding subway stops. This Wednesday, the adjudicator ruled in favour of extending announcements to TTC streetcars and buses as well. Justice Alvin Rosenberg did not have happy thoughts about the TTC:

Rosenberg also ordered the TTC to pay Lepofsky $35,000, even though the lawyer did not request financial compensation. He says he will donate the money to charity.

"The TTC should have asked themselves many years ago, `What can we do to help? How can we accommodate these visually impaired patrons?' Instead they resisted with all the means at their disposal..."

All total, the chronically cash-strapped TTC spent 12 years and $500,000 fighting the rulings. Let me rephrase this: the TTC spent half a million of Toronto taxpayers' dollars fighting blind people.

But it appears the TTC will be able to stay mum. Instead of ordering drivers to do what they are already supposed to do (and that many already do), the TTC has spent an additional $2 million installing a computer voice into every subway train.

Apple is squeezing carriers to chop their data rates to boost demand for its handset (or in Grant’s words, to set “plans that aren’t ridiculous,”) which has led to speculation that the reason iPhones aren’t sold here is Rogers’ reluctance to fall in line.

Prices are still absurd compared to those down south in the States, but both Bell and Telus now have 1GB for $100/mo. plans. Bell also now has a $75/mo. “unlimited”plan for their 3G wireless modem, and is selling an unlimited $7 data plan for the upcoming HTC Touch smartphone which is probably the closest Canada will get to an iPhone – for now.

According to Sabia and the BCE camp, no such agreement was ever struck. "Telus's position, for instance, on antitrust remedies?" asked Sabia. "Snowball's chance in hell." Currie, who added to the bad blood following the auction when he described Entwistle and his team as "amateurs," has since toned it down, but only by a notch. "The requests that Telus made of us were absurd," he says.

Having correlated the presence of Sabia with the flatlining BCE stock price, many Bell employees do not have particularly positive feelings about his tenure at the helm of Canada's largest telecommunications company. However, he as a person was always personable, he could respond effortlessly in English and French, and he was a straight talker - he didn't beat around the bush. He always seemed to be trying his best, whether the stock markets thought it was good enough or not.

I had the chance to shake Sabia's hand once, on the tarmac of a private airfield in Mississauga. And yes, he was wearing his conservatively-cut, signature red wool sweater.

The group, Lanna Action for Burma, says the country's superstitious generals, especially junta leader Gen. Than Shwe, also believe that contact with women's underwear saps them of power...

Hilton said women in Thailand, Australia, Singapore, England and other European countries have started sending or delivering their underwear to Myanmar missions following informal coordination among activist organizations and individuals.

I can get behind that kind of action. :)

P.S. For the record, the country is called Burma. I don't know why North American mainstream media keep calling it Myanmar. That's the name the military junta simply made up. If North Korea suddenly and unilaterally changed its name to Super Awesome Land, would CNN follow their lead? Doubt it.

This echoes preliminary findings made in the 1990s by Seattle scholar Sir Mix-a-Lot, who in his uniquely audio dissertation also pointed out optimal environment and lifestyle factors to obtaining your own "motor in the back of your behind":

1. Expand your fitness regime beyond sidesteps and sit-ups
2. Refrain dining on red beans and rice
3. Ignore beauty advice from Cosmopolitan Magazine

Historians and anthropologists agree that "BrickBreaker" has been one of the largest timewasters in the history of mankind, next to "the Great Wall of China", "the Canadian goverment gun registry", "the Dark Ages", and "Australia's $89 million Internet porn filter". Incidentally, BrickBreaker is followed by "Blackberry Mail" on the list.

Every day, Oscar makes his rounds among the patients, entering each room and giving each patient a sniff. When he senses that someone is near the end of his or life, he will hop onto their bed and curl up beside them. Within hours, without fail, the patient will die.

I'm surprised no one was proposed the following explanation: Oscar is karate chopping these poor folks in the neck when nobody's looking.

Newsweek sat down with Christensen this week to answer some lingering questions, discuss how the word "disruptive" has been used and abused over the years, and probe his predictions on whether Apple iPhone would disrupt the wireless market.

Apple is leaping ahead on the sustaining curve [by building a better phone]. But the prediction of the theory would be that Apple won't succeed with the iPhone. They've launched an innovation that the existing players in the industry are heavily motivated to beat: It's not [truly] disruptive.