A Funkaoshi Production

Having survived their own family splits, Generation X parents are determined to keep their marriages together. It doesn’t always work.

This was pretty fascinating. It’s always interesting reading over-educated people discuss their failed marriages.

I hadn’t heard about this game before, but it sounds amazing.

Journalist Kai Nagata discusses his disillusionment with the Canadian press.

This is some great investigative journalism. It’s been sitting in my Instapaper queue for ages now.

The Star talks to the people who use the library in Doug Ford’s riding that apparently no one uses. (I honestly don’t have too much sympathy for anyone who voted for the Ford’s. Everything they are doing now shouldn’t come as a surprise.)

In the past few years, the U.S. economy has been beset by the subprime meltdown, skyrocketing oil prices, the Eurozone debt crisis, and even the Tohoku earthquake. Now it’s staring at a new problem—a failure to raise the debt ceiling, which would almost certainly throw the economy back into recession. Unlike those other problems, however, this one would be wholly of our own making. If the economy suffers as a result, it’ll be what a soccer fan might call the biggest own goal in history.

American politics is such a train wreck right now.

I somehow managed to miss this story when it came out—probably because it sounds like every other story about U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Muralitharan is the greatest bowler in the history of Cricket.

And now he sells smoked meat sandwiches in Toronto.

This sounds like par for the course when it comes to city hall.

“Until now anything containing less than 10% alcohol in Russia has been considered a foodstuff.” Oh Russia.

Basically.

As with previous releases of MacOS X, John Siracusa has written an epic tale about the new operating system.

The Ford’s hate libraries now? These guys are caricatures of assholes. Also, I don’t understand the Doug Ford quote that started this whole mess at all. Does he want more donut shops that libraries? Does he think Etobicoke is underserved by Tim Hortons?

You can go to counterfeit Apple stores in China. (The physical store itself is counterfeit.)

Google is now warning users (on the Google search page) if their computers are infected by certain malware.

Aaron Swartz apparently downloaded a shit-ton of material from JSTOR.

You need to watch this.

“What if there had been blogs in 1976? I would most definitely have had one and this might well have been it. This blog is based on my actual journal kept in 1976.”

I’m part of the beta too, but i’ve barely done anything interesting in the game. Angry Robot on the other hand has a pretty extensive look at the game and what it’s all about.

This is a nice idea, but really doesn’t match the theme of the show whatsoever. The show’s current opening credits are one of my favourites.

The new Little Dragon is streaming on NPR, right now.

An interesting take on the Jarvis bike lanes and the general stupidness over at city hall.