A Funkaoshi Production

Early reports suggest 744,408 were stolen over the course of a year. What’s funny is that in the Bitcoin community it sounds like most people knew it was a terrible exchange. Anyway, since deposits are insured … oh wait, they aren’t a bank: suck it, libertarians.

The Verge on the state of the Internet.

A long honest discussion about the recent drama surrounding his life.

I think his last show was at (the now defunct) Funktion Gallery back in 2009. Anser is one of my favourite artists, and his faces should be recognizable to any Torontonian.

A good article on Facebook’s recent acquisition of WhatsApp (for 19 god damn billion dollars).

What! One of the more iconic shops on the West Queen West strip.

I need to be watching this show.

Photographs from the Ukraine.

I guess the different between regular models and super models is that super models can fly in that crazy Zero-Gs plane and not look nauseous.

This story is bizarre and crazy.

This is what it is all about: some words, some photos, and it’s god damn great; some proper-ass blogging right here.

This story is crazy.

If you are playing CandyCrush you are a bad person. The people that make that game are basically terrible. (CandyCrush are in the midst of trying to trademark the words Saga and Candy.)

God damn it, Canada.

I almost missed their birthday. The site feels like it’s in an odd place right now, trying hard to turn itself around after years of sitting on its hands. I am still a big fan of Flickr. It’s where all my photos go.

I actually had some chicken mcnuggets today, and they were fantastic.

I love Montreal, but yeah.

“AcademicTorrents allows researchers to upload datasets, articles and other research material. The site runs it own tracker and supports web-seeds as well, which guarantee that files are available at all times.”

For those not paying attention, Philip Seymour Hoffman died of a heroin overdose a couple days ago. There are no happy endings with heroin. This article from Brand is pretty old now, but worth a read. I wrote about opiates on this blog a while ago, back when I was taking them for my broken leg. My favourite line from that post: “At the time Heroin was being taken off the market because it was Heroin.”

On the one hand it’s hard to get worked up here because software engineers aren’t really hurting for money, especially in San Fransisco. On the other hand this story is crazy.