Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

From some folks over at the Gainful employment place... SuperNet delivers Alberta to the Smithsonian Institute's Folklife Festival The diverse and vibrant culture of Alberta will be on display to more than a million Americans from June 30 to July 11 at the Smithsonian's Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C. - in part thanks to the Alberta SuperNet. The result of a partnership between Bell, Axia, and the Government of Alberta, the Alberta SuperNet is a province-wide network offering the benefits of high-speed technology to urban and rural Albertans alike. Linking over 4,700 government offices, schools, municipalities, health-care facilities, libraries and other institutions, Alberta is the first province in Canada to deliver a broadband network that opens up high-speed connectivity in every region of the province. It is this connectivity, and technology solution, that will support Alberta's presence at Folklife - the first Canadian province to be featured in the 39 year hist...

The folks at Folgers have created what must be the most annoying ad ever. Enjoy! More at Youtube.com as well.

Not from our sponsors - which there ain't any - but from the folks over at Skype . Yep, the folks at Skype are letting me link to them to share the service. It's a little something I've been playing with the last couple of weeks. And I'll put a little bipvert on the right side for when this posting gets moved down the line. Plus all of you skype users can reach me at user name of colecoop - when I'm on-line - I'm still playing around with the system and haven't got a voice mailbox yet, but I will soon. Which is neat - 'cause as you know to get to Cole's Notes you go to colecoop.blogspot.com - which I'm sure you've bookmarked already - or don't foget the RSS feed. Content has been a little thin on the ground lately, with Gainful Employement Corporation taking up a lot of my time, but some new things are coming soon.

Well, it's an old cartoon - but it's still relevant - even with the modifications. Tip of the hat to M who sent it along.

Need a Cool drink for your party harty? - Check out the goings on at a small, but fun Tiki Bar. Hang out with the regulars Dr. Tiki, Lala and Johnny Johnny - plus different guest wierdos as the occasion demands. Also available as a PODcast from ITunes.

A bit of an interesting twist on the electric bike - it uses the areas on the front and back wheels hold Solar collectors and charge the battery. I imagine the box over the back wheel is the battery box - but you probabily could add a basket on top. I don't suppose a saddle bags would be a good idea - cutting down on the light exposure to the wheels. It comes prebuilt as shown for around $1299 or they offer conversion kits for your own Bike starting at $795.00 - Canadian. This is a Canadian company building these things. So the US folks will have to pay duty to have these in the sunny states. Not to mention - the NORCO bike is made in Canada too... I wonder if they made a solid wheel from the solar panels and if they're on both sides of the wheels? It sort of looks like they may have used hub motors to make it run - unless the motor is hidden in the Crankshaft housing, or on the other side of the bike. Now all NORCO needs to do is start manufacturing these in quality for $5...

Eagle Eye Cam - Powered By Infotec Business Systems For the Friday Funny - here's a link to the famous BC Hanson Eagle web camera. As well, I see Frank and Gordon are making an appearance on the front of the new redesigned Bell Mobility website. Must be the spring weather - it's got us all looking at wildlife.