A Funkaoshi Production

People have been calling for side guards on trucks for years now. It turns out you can in fact put a price on a human life.

Oh man this is so good.

ThinkUp is a tool for archiving data you share on social networks.

NSWF A profile of the fellow who runs “Is Anyone Up?”.

Dwolla is a competitor of sorts to Square and PayPal. They have flat transaction fees, which makes a big difference when you are selling expensive items. This all works by apparently avoiding your normal payment processing networks.

I went to the Monk Debate last night, at Roy Thompson Hall. I have to thank Tyler for the ticket, and Auriol for working late so I got to use it.

Some of these diptychs are great.

In short: burying the Eglington streetcars in the suburbs—where there is space for them on the streets—is an incredibly stupid idea.

There are a couple of these near my office. They are ridiculous. Our city council voted in favour of these things?

I find that comparisons to St. Jamestown come up fairly often when people talk about CityPlace. Unlike St. James Town, the CityPlace condo corporations need to maintain enough funds to pay for the upkeep of their buildings. So I don’t think they will fall into the same start of disrepair as St. Jamestown. Most condominiums from the 80s still look quite nice. (With maintenance fees that will make you blush, no doubt.)

On the other hand, like St. Jamestown of old, the community is probably fairly transient. The buildings are designed in such a way that they really only appeal to particular demographics: the young professional and the retiree. People with families probably wouldn’t consider living in CityPlace because the units aren’t that big. I had complained to my friend who lives in the complex that they should have built 3 bedroom units as well, to attract families. He pointed out—correctly, I think—that the units would be too expensive. If a 2 bedroom and den in CityPlace sells for a half million dollars, give or take, how much would a 3 bedroom unit sell for? I suspect the costs would make the cities ridiculous housing prices look reasonable. This complaint is true of all modern condo developments. Two things will probably happen here: condo prices will come back down, or more likely, housing prices will go up. (They aren’t building more houses in the city, after all.)

All of that said, CityPlace is down the road from the finical district. That probably counts for a lot.

I deleted my Google+ account. It was like Facebook without any of the people. (Deleting my account was simple and clear, unlike the process with Facebook.) The criticism outlined in the article seems apt. One of the reasons MySpace succeeded over Friendster was that it was so quick to listen to its users and adapt the site to meet their needs. Google seems to be spending their time shutting down peoples profiles.

Why? Because their beloved football coach was fired. Now, that would normally be a stupid reason to riot, but in this case it’s all the more stupid because coach Paterno was fired for being half-assed when it came to stopping assistant coach Jerry Sandusky from molesting children. Where do I even start?

This is a great essay.

One of those weird Reddit cartoons from an 86 year old man.

We are kindred spirits in our inability to grow facial hair. (You can see how i’m doing on my Mospace page.)

I want to get the smaller version of this backpack. This is a pretty interesting look at how they are made, more or less by hand.

Andy Rooney has passed away.

In the same vein, The Checklist.

From the same company that built that crazy walking dog.