- "Route" Talk, one of the seven things you are not supposed to talk about.
This whole episode of This American Life is pretty enjoyable, but this segment made me stop and catch my breath. It’s so damn good.
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- Why Rob Ford’s Budget Proposal Is As Irrelevant As He Is.
Math is the least of Ford’s problems, I suppose.
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- YouTube: Aamer Rahman (Fear of a Brown Planet) - Reverse Racism.
Who is this sexy man and why have I not heard of him before now? This is good.
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- Pirates on J.D. Salinger's Ocean.
“Three unpublished works by J.D. Salinger, including The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls, have been leaked online after showing up in an eBay auction. Birthday Boy, Paula, and the aforementioned Ocean are three short stories that form part of a larger collection of Salinger works that was never published.”
What! Three Stories by J.D. Salinger
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- YouTube: Ken Burns' "The Statement" by Rob Ford.
Featuring Jennifer Lawrence, Martha Stewart, Vince Vaughan, and a few more notable faces.
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- YouTube: Spielberg Explains Ending of A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
What! Like most people, I assumed Spielberg tacked on the future-robots ending to A.I. Not so!
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- New Snowden docs show U.S. spied during G20 in Toronto.
#Top secret documents retrieved by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden show that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government allowed the largest American spy agency to conduct widespread surveillance in Canada during the 2010 G8 and G20 summits.
- Rob Ford and the Two Torontos.
A smart article in the Atlantic about our favourite mayor.
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- Ditching a Vancouver condo for a Coquitlam townhouse.
My old housemate Lien is featured in this story about real estate in Vancouver.
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- Goldieblox and the Three MCs.
Waxy breaks down the kerfuffle around the Goldieblox advert that uses a parody of the song “Girls” by the Beastie Boys. The Goldieblox ad is cute, but it is still an advert. I can see why the Beastie Boys are annoyed. (Also, it sucks that the default in 2013 is that all toys are “toys for boys” unless specifically noted.)
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- How Square moves Cash.
Smart. I love me some payment processing.
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- Resolving the Crisis of Legitimacy at City Hall.
“The Rob Ford saga has exposed structural flaws in our municipal government. Council should embrace this opportunity to repair them.”
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- Mayor Rob Ford of Toronto (2010-)
Nicely done.
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- Chino Otsuka's Photographs. Imagine Finding Me and Memoriography are on display at the AGO right now. #
- Bob Dylan "Like A Rolling Stone".
This video is incredible. I wonder why he decided to make it.
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- The Sweet Setup — We recommend the best apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Shawn Blanc’s launched a new review site, and it’s super dope.
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- A Big Family, at the Beach.
David Sedaris writes about his sister’s suicide.
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- Rob Ford Sound Board.
Hells Yes.
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- The Logic of Stupid Poor People.
#Presentable as a sufficient condition for gainful, dignified work or successful social interactions is a privilege. It’s the aging white hippie who can cut the ponytail of his youthful rebellion and walk into senior management while aging black panthers can never completely outrun the effects of stigmatization against which they were courting a revolution. Presentable is relative and, like life, it ain’t fair.
- Letter To A Young Programmer Considering A Startup.
I have a lot of thoughts about working for a startup, most of them kind of negative. I work for one now that I love, but I feel like where I work is atypical of the industry as a whole. We have an ugly office, for starters.
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