- My First Baron Fig.
Shawn Blanc reviews a fancy notebook.
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- Toronto Police Service News Release #30572.
Jian Ghomeshi was arrested today, charged with sexual assault.
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- Watch Killer Mike's Speech On The Ferguson Ruling.
Best thing I’ve heard or read about this ruling. “You mother fuckers will not own tomorrow.” Word. (Also, I wish I was at that show. I bet it was unreal.)
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- An Interview with my Harshest Critic.
My buddy Joe Clark was interviewed by Jesse Brown on his podcast CANADALAND. He is as contrarian as ever.
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- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Review.
I need to watch this movie.
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- Canadian-Iranian ‘blogfather’ released from Evin prison.
He’s been there for years now. It’s being discussed on MetaFilter now.
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- Wait what? My commute was also shitty today.
The TTC really needs to get their shit together.
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- What a messy commute.
Could you believe my commute today was even dumber than the one I wrote about last week. Well it was. By a healthy margin.
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- Join Us in Celebrating Fountain Pen Day.
I picked up a fountain pen a few weeks ago from Wonder Pens. It’s quite nice writing with a fountain pen, and mine isn’t particularly fancy.
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- The Other Side of Diversity.
A Black women writes about her experiences working in tech. The company I work for now is still predominantly men, like most tech companies, but is amazing when it comes to ethnic diversity.
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- Sorry, we haven’t reached a ‘watershed’ on violence against women.
A great article from Denise Balkissoon about this whole Jian Ghomeshi thing.
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- Alternatives to the Just Checks.
Let’s just assume that compulsive checking of Twitter, Facebook, and email are bad habits. And by that I mean they are habits we want to change. I know I personally would like to check Twitter less often.
A discussion of creating “good” habits.
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- Do you know about Jian?
Melissa Martin writes about knowing, but not quite knowing, about Jian for years and being unable to really do anything with that knowledge.
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- 8 women accuse former CBC host Jian Ghomeshi of violence, sexual abuse or harassment.
I had assumed he was a creep for quite some time. How little I knew. One of the women who came forward is Lucy DeCoutere—aka Lucy from the Trailer Park Boys. She speaks about her experience on the Current. Hopefully people will shut up about anonymous jilted ex-girlfriends now. This is terrible.
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- TIE Fighter Special Edition available on GOG.com.
This is probably one of my favourite games ever.
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- 10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Women.
This video is ridiculous.
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