- Why don't women's issues matter in the Toronto mayoral election? | rabble.ca
“At this point, with two white, conservative millionaires pitted against each other in the lead, even ‘progressive’ voters seem to have fallen into a trance of passivity.”
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- King of click: the story of the greatest keyboard ever made.
Bold words. I love my Unicomp Spacesaver, which is the modern version of the Model M.
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- The Ethnic Aisle's Election Issue.
The new redesign of their site is great. I love their electoral map. Sounds about right.
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- YouTube: Jerry Seinfeld's Clio Acceptance Speech.
“We are a hopeful species. Stupid, but hopeful.”
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- Dollar a Day.
If you are in the US this is a very cool idea. Every day they donate a dollar to a new charity on your behalf.
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- Keegan Henry-Mathieu offers new hope in Mammoliti’s Ward 7.
I’m hoping our city council will look a fair bit different come November. So many dopes on council need to go.
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Julian: Fuck jail. I’m not going back to jail, Ricky. Not gonna happen man.
Ricky: Julian, don’t be dissing jail, man. We’ve had some good fucking parties in there, we got good friends in there. I mean they fed you, you used their gym. Come on, man. Don’t be dissing jail. That’s not fucking cool.
— The Trailer Park Boys, Season 4, Episode 6, “If You Love Something, Set It Free”
- The real Olivia Chow just stood up.
Talk shit? Get hit!
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- Nimona is a web comic by Noelle Stevenson.
The last panel was published today. (It’ll be collected into a book in 2015.)
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- Wendell Pierce on white violence, entitlement and racial messaging.
His story from the 6:30 mark sums it all up.
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- 15 Lessons from 15 Years of Blogging.
Anil Dash has been blogging for 15 years. Crazy. (This blog is almost 11 years old now, which I also find crazy.)
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- The city has published a report about intensification in downtown Toronto.
There are lots of interesting charts and graphs.
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- Why does Ford Nation’s ugly side go unchallenged by the candidate?
Because he is courting the racist homophobe vote? Has Tory’s campaign said anything about all these outbursts?
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- People should wear and eat seal as much as possible.
Tanya Tagaq said some “controversial” stuff during her Polaris Prize acceptance speech. From her twitter feed:
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- Fear, loathing and the race for Toronto's city hall.
Municipal politics in Toronto continue to be a big joke. Also, when did it get cool to be a homophobe or a racist in this city? (I can take a guess…)
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- Raiders of the Lost Ark, as a silent B&W film.
Steven Soderbergh has posted a version of Raiders of the Lost Ark online for people interested in film to study.
I’ve removed all sound and color from the film, apart from a score designed to aid you in your quest to just study the visual staging aspect. Wait, WHAT? HOW COULD YOU DO THIS? Well, I’m not saying I’m like, ALLOWED to do this, I’m just saying this is what I do when I try to learn about staging, and this filmmaker forgot more about staging by the time he made his first feature than I know to this day (for example, no matter how fast the cuts come, you always know exactly where you are—that’s high level visual math shit).
I just clicked around to see what random scenes would look like, and Soderbergh is right, this film is staged perfectly. Everyone seems to be in just the right place, all the time. Also, this film looks gorgeous in black and white.
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- A walk with Ward 18 candidate Parthi Kandavel.
He’s running to be a school board trustee, against Elizabeth Moyer, who is famous for showing that being creepy isn’t just for old White guys.
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