I want this t-shirt so bad.
6 July 2012, late afternoon
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- YouTube: 'The Man with the Iron Fists' Trailer HD
Oh hells yes people. This film looks ridiculous.
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- Building and dismantling the Windows advantage.
Some pretty shocking graphs about the rise and apparent fall of windows. (Well, sort of.)
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- Anthony Jones' Mario.
Do you like Super Mario? Do you like portraits? Well go check this out.
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- RIM chiefs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie's best quotes.
They were wrong about so many things it’s kind of scary.
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- Venustreet photos - Colour Portraiture.
A great collection of portraits of women. (And i’m not just saying that because one of my photos made the cut.)
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- Does Google Have Any Social Skills at All?
An interesting article on whether Google needs some employees that aren’t turbo-dorks vetting their products.
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- The obituary of Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld.
You need to read this thing.
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- Will Munro remembered by Sarah Liss.
Will Munro died of brain cancer at the age of 35. This is a lovely piece of writing.
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- Source Filmmaker.
This seems kind of incredible.
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- My friend Andrew's website is awesome.
(Well, if you like Mega Man anyway.)
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- Jess & Russ
This is a serious-ass virtual wedding invitation. (They got some big names to ilustraste.)
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- OneCity Transit Plan for Toronto.
I honestly didn’t expect Karen Stintz to become such a bad-ass supporter of public transit. Ford really shouldn’t have pissed her off. Of note: replacing the LRT with a subway, finally connecting the Yonge-University line at Sheppard, and building two express lines to Union. The later seems like something the city really needs, since the Go is such a piece of shit.
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Smokin' Aces
26 June 2012, evening time
I watched Smokin’ Aces with my brother over the weekend. It’s the perfect Netflix movie: a movie I wouldn’t have gone out of my way to seek out, but watched because it was there. Everyone in the movie is famous. Alica Keys plays a foxy hit lady. Mathew Fox plays a dorky hotel security guard. Ben Affleck plays a bondsman. I could keep going on and on. The plot is simple and very predictable. (The big reveals at the end of the movie are pretty obvious.) The movie suffers from too much telling, not enough showing. The characters are constantly narating what’s happening, what the relationships in the movie are all about, etc. That said, it’s super flashy and fun. If you find yourself with nothing else to watch on Netflix, check it out.
- The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show talks about Action Park.
It’s the world’s most dangerous waterpark. Literally. You need to listen to this. Action Park sounds so crazy it can’t possibly be real.
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- Why Are American Kids So Spoiled?
I’m sure you can replace “American” in that title with plenty of places around the world.
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- Behind the Scenes at a McDonald's Burger Photo Shoot.
What I found most interesting is that the food they are photographing is real food, not plastic.
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Mythilli, Climbing.
21 June 2012, evening time
The last year and change has gone by so quickly. Mythilli has figured out how to climb our fence. Well, at least one rung. Like her father she has no upper body strength. The fence will keep her in, for now.
- Toronto schools pay high prices for small jobs.
Union boss Jimmy Hazel sounds like a class act.
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- Julian Assange has breached his bail conditions in London and is currently petitioning for asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy.
I’m guessing he fears being extradited from Sweden to the US.
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