A Funkaoshi Production

This is really interesting. Nash discusses all sorts of things in this letter that are way ahead of their time.

There are lots of councillors on our city council that need to go, but at the top of that list should be: Denzil Minnan-Wong, Cesar Palacio, Norm Kelly, Frank Di Giorgio and Vincent Crisanti. It will be a big loss to the city if we lose Webster. He’s been working at the TTC for 35 years, and is well regarded in the industry. (That is to say that you should be calling up Rob Ford and complaining about all of this.)

A good discussion of the recent discovery that we have been generating some shitty RSA key-pairs.

This is a pretty interesting problem that I had not heard about before. Basically, can you colour a 17×17 grid so that any 4 points you pick that form a rectangle don’t all share the same colour.

This is epic.

The one track I’ve listened to thus far has been very enjoyable.

Crazy.

Apple announces their new OS with little fanfare, relying on private PR sessions with key media people to get the word out.

That account would be @vikileaks30, and its pretty harsh.

I can never remember if we have the same restrictions as the US on our cough medicine. (In the US they basically now sell placebos.)

I can’t be more succinct than Kottke here: “A Canadian man has been digging out his basement with scale-model RC construction equipment since 1997.”

Do you ever want to know what’s going on in the startup scene, but don’t want to read a website written by assholes? Well BetaKit has got you covered.

For those keeping score at home, the Conservatives got rid of the long form census because that was an invasion of privacy or some such bullshit.

A great article from Torontoist on the politics around transit issues in the city.

“My boss won’t let me make espressos,” says the barista. “I need a year more, maybe two, before he’s ready to let customers drink my shots undiluted by milk. And I’ll need another whole year of practice after that if I want to be able to froth milk for cappuccinos.”

Only after 18 years as a barista in New York did his boss, the cafe’s owner, feel qualified to return home to show off his coffee-making skills. Now, at Bear Pond’s main branch, he stops making espressos at an early hour each day, claiming that the spike on the power grid after that time precludes drawing the voltage required for optimal pressure.

I love this (insane?) quest for perfection. A great example of this are Japanese jeans, which out-American in every way the American jeans they are copying. This comes up in the article as well.

Yes! Degrassi was the high point for Canadian television. I apparently never posted my 140-character reviews of the entire series here. I’ll need to remedy that.

This is amazing.

As LL Cool J says, “Don’t call it a come back.”