- Trouble at the Koolaid Point.
There’s always a long depressing story about women being harassed in tech if you wait a couple days. Kathy Sierra quits the Internet.
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- Live Vinyl Mix (One Take. No Laptop. No Serato. No Bullshit) by Wick-it the Instigator.
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- The Best Monster.
A profile of Zak Smith, sometimes porn star, sometimes hot-shot artist, and sometimes dude I play D&D with online. His blog Playing D&D with Porn Stars is a must read if you like D&D, but surprisingly not so much if you just like porn stars.
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- Beatings By Dr. Dre.
A list of girls Dr. Dre beat up catalogued by Byron Crawford.
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- The Olympus OM-D E-M10.
I’m not in the market for a new camera, but if I was …
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- 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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