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Losing Adam Giambrone from city council is a really big loss.

It’s a nice change of pace from your usual disaster porn. It’s kind of bizarre this was produced by a boot company, and not an actual news organization.

MetaFilter discusses Rob Ford.

On September 18th, Mitchell Heisman posted his 1904 page long suicide note online, and then shot himself in the head on Harvard square.

I’m really glad to see the development of TextPattern hasn’t slowed down too much after the loss of Alex Shiels to Wordpress. I’m looking forward to trying out the new version.

I guess I can add Bolton to my long list of places to avoid. Though, to be fair, I think Brampton sucks too.

This morning comedian Stephen Colbert testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and Border Security, where he appeared as a witness on the issue of migrant farm work. He did so in character: “a fake blowhard before a panel of real pontificators. “It’s unclear upon how many members of the committee the joke was lost.”

Stephen Colbert is god damn brilliant.

A different take becoming a parent. It’s pretty funny and awesome.

This really is the end of an era.

I wonder what percentage of the 38% of people heading downtown on the TTC are jammed in to the Yonge line?

Hoder has been in prison for quite a while now. This whole story is all the more bizarre since Hoder hadn’t been a critique of the regime for ages.

I still I can’t believe they cancelled Arrested Development.

I wonder if they feel a lot of pressure to only make really amazing videos.

Retired colonel Michel Drapeau, a lawyer and expert in privacy law, expressed shock on viewing the documents. Mr. Drapeau said it was the worst breach of privacy he’d seen in decades of practising law, calling it “totally, totally illegal” under the federal Privacy Act, which allows for the collection of information for specific purposes.

This story is all sorts of outrageous.

This is one of the best written hatchet jobs I’ve read in a while, and a pretty scathing critique of American politics.

[Christine O’Donnel] is what politics produces when you divorce politics from government. She is what you get when you sell to the country that nothing government can do will help, and that the government is an alien thing, and that politics is nothing more than the active public display of impotent grievance.

Christine O’Donnell, a Tea Party moron, beat a fairly entrenched GOP candidate to win the party’s senate nomination.

An interesting map (and article) on where Toronto’s police live. Most are a fair distance from the city.

Jordan is posting pictures as he travels. There is already some good stuff up. I quite like the following shots: Sept 2nd, Sept 3rd and Sept 16th.

Cunningham is a fairly famous New York Times fashion / street photographer.

Let me start with a, “what the fuck?” That out of the way, how does this even make sense? Toronto is basically a Liberal hot-bed. Any chump could run for that party and get voted in. This mayoral race really should have been (former Liberal MPP) Smitherman’s to lose. That he is losing it so spectacularly is pretty amazing. You obviously aren’t going to out-crazy Rob Ford. Why even bother? Toronto isn’t a particularly right-wing place. He should have been trying to solidify the left-wing base. It looks like Pantalone is going to get all of those voters. I have to wonder what jack-ass is running the Smitherman campaign. That said, 45.8% just doesn’t make sense. I’m going to have to assume the undecided vote is gigantic. I just can’t accept that such a huge chunk of the city are fucking morons. Morons.

Last Wednesday, my life changed forever. I got an iPhone. I consider it the greatest thing to happen to the blind for a very long time, possibly ever. It offers unparalleled access to properly made applications, and changed my life in twenty-four hours. The iPhone only has one thing holding it back: iTunes. Nevertheless, I have fallen in love.

This story is amazing.

“Who Cork The Dance is a treasure trove of sound tapes – recordings of reggae sound systems and MCs live in session in dancehalls across Jamaica, the UK and the US, going back to the 1970s.” Oh hells yes.