- Key Moments in Egypt’s Transition From Mubarak to Morsi.
A fancy interactive news piece from the New York Times.
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- Shelf Esteem.
Stories about people and their book collections.
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- Slow and unreliable, TTC is no longer the Better Way.
“The majority of city councillors are transit hypocrites and crass opportunists with little concern for the TTC other than as a means to curry favour with the huddled masses waiting down below for the next train to arrive.” Sounds about right.
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- Getting ALL your data out of Google Reader.
Though, i’m not sure you’d actually want it ALL. It’s a ton of data. There are only a few days left to pick your new feed reading service.
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- Before Midnight.
“In a conversation moderated by Phillip Lopate, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke discuss their new film Before Midnight as well as their nearly 20-year collaboration that now spans three features.”
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- Texas abortion bill defeated after missing deadline.
Senator Wendy Davis is a mother fucking hero. Also, it’s 2013: why are people still fighting about this shit?
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- Then & Now: Turbo.
I was at Turbo on it’s opening night, with my friends Steph and Chris. I wanted to see DJ Zinc. That place was amazing. (Also worth a read is the history of System Soundbar.)
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- Meet Potluck.
From the people behind Branch.
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- Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh.
I’m hoping that on July 1st Google is all, “Psych!”
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- Stephen Colbert Pays Tribute To His Mom.
Colbert breaks character, briefly, to speak about his mother. This is incredibly sweet.
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- M.I.A. has a new video out: Bring the Noize.
She’s in Toronto on the 18th at the Danforth Music Hall.
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- How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby?
A surprisingly long time, apparently. (Though I suspect you’d have more energy to raise them in your youth. Hah!) This article makes the case that a lot of the information we have about having children later in life is more or less flat out wrong.
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- Loves is all on Vimeo.
NSWF.
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- Wallace & Co. replaced Yasi's place.
I’ve had a coffee there, but still no food. If you’re one to go out and about in Toronto, you might recognize the staff from Union and the Midfield.
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