I might have missed it in what has already been posted but a few quick questions if you don't mind.

Will you be able to load it up with MtGox USD? And if so what is the fee?

Will you then be able to withdraw that at an ATM? And if so what is that fee, including conversion to CAD at a Canadian ATM?

Thanks

Looks very cool...

But it is the number I use on my luggage.

Seems to me the card emittent wasn't sure if they would be able to provide support of the card the whole December. Who knows what will happen after the 21th of December...

Acquiring millions of merchants while convincing them to accept a new currency, a new method of accepting payment, and a new process for financial settlement is a major undertaking. It took VISA several decades before they ever realized a small profit.

Think of it like a revolutionary new type of engine--does it make sense to spend millions of Bitcoin to lay thousands of miles of brand new "rails" all over the world for your new engine to run on? A more sensible approach is to use your new engine on the existing "rails" that are already established in a massive network all over the world. Once you have a substantial volume of traffic, switching merchants to alternative rails becomes a viable option.

The word you're looking for is "moot".

I'm pretty sure it's "moo."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIkJ4BUChxI&feature=related

That's the point, it's not that difficult to find someone's public address. It's not the fact that it's physically displayed in the card the problem, since as you say, the CC number is also there. It's the fact that only one funding address exist. Even people to whom I'd never show my CC could eventually discover my funding address.

Why not also provide a page where you can dynamically generate a new address to fund your card, every time you want to do so?

PS: I'm supposing there will only be one funding address per card. Perhaps that's not the case. One of the points of my original post was to confirm that.