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Toronto’s good at that.

It seems like there’s simply nothing more important than for the mayor to be able to say, two years hence, that he’s building a subway in Scarborough. Even if it’s a subway that will make the Sheppard line look like a paragon of savvy planning. Even it doesn’t make one damn bit of difference to local transit service in the long run. Nope, Tory is going to get that wretched thing built, even if he has to waste every last dollar the city has to spend on such investments. In for a penny, in for a billion, and all that.

Our city council continues to impress with their general level of stupidness.

This free style is nuts. It just gets better and better and never ends.

This is my shocked face :o

This series of videos is so great.

Since this article was published last week there was another pedestrian death: an SUV hopped a curb, struck two street vendor trucks, killing one of the vendors. John Tory’s comments on the tragedy: “I would also ask cyclists and pedestrians to obey the rules of the road.” Fuck that guy.

Harsh. Tony Fadell is out at Nest, the company he started and sold to Google. Sounds like they have done a terrible job of things since being bought. I switched from my Nest to a (Canadian) Ecobee3 recently. That company seems to be doing more interesting things with smart thermostats.

An incredible essay on addiction, the rust belt, AIDS, apathy, existential angst, Donald Trump …

This video is so sweet and cute, and features my ex-girlfriend Gillian Jacobs.

“Everyone seems to be becoming slowly aware of how overwhelmingly white everything is.” A solid article all about what it’s like to be a minority in hollywood. The interactive feature that accompanies the article is great as well.

An interesting look at how modern cinema often leans too heavily on fan service.

Amazing.

Former mayor Rob Ford may be gone, but his vision of public service on the cheap is still here. Where Ford promised to respect “taxpayers,” Tory similarly vows to protect “homeowners,” whom he recently claimed are “stretched to the limit,” and cannot afford to pay more in property taxes.

Tory is the mayor Toronto deserves. The bar for our mayor was apparently, “not addicted to crack-cocaine,” but Toronto should set its sights higher.

It’s interesting to see how Instagram has morphed from cellphone photography to something quite different. I changed my Instagram usage up several months ago so that the captions to my photos were all fictional synopses of a show about my life on Netflix. (As a socially commentary on how fake everything on Instagram is: get it?!)

Cooke passed away from cancer this weekend.

Some serious social science shadiness. The researcher comes off like a bit of a dick on Twitter. I assume his mentions are on fire now.

I want the Final Fantasy 1 subway map.

Nice.

This story is incredible.

The next day, my sorrow for the loss of this thing dominated my thinking. I was surprised by how deeply sad it made me to lose this game that I hadn’t picked up in months. Part of me wants to feel embarassed about that, but no. WoW was always more about the people than it was about the game. It was the impetus and the sustenance of many of the most important relationships in my life. I refuse to diminish those relationships by saying that WoW was ‘just a game.’ I couldn’t help but log back in the next day to see the server one final time. To be there for the final hours.

Blizzard shut down the (popular) private World of Warcraft server Nostalrius a month ago.

Amazing that Sarah Palin has managed to get and sound even dumber.