RT @ivortossell: The future is sad and weird. @QMInews: BREAKING - RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson says Mounties will work with Anonymous ...
Orwell facepalm for the Globe's doubleplus-unfree label on its limited-access articles: 
@Canadianmags Most isn't moderation, but triage. Criteria for which audience members get to ask Qs is "who runs to the microphone first."
@Canadianmags Moderators are never stern enough with audience questions. Most of the time I'd rather just not hear any.
RT @BenjaminCormier: Just saw a Tim Horton's online ad with a local map to help me find a Tim Horton's. OR I could just CLOSE MY EYES an ...
Proposal: the "Absolutely no questions from the public" speaking series.
@navalang @balkissoon Now you can CHOOSE what to buy, instead of our current hellscape of Soviet potato-sack clothes and turnip fro-yo.
Wait! If you don't find the front page of Wanelo.com quite crazy enough, check out their full pitch: wanelo.com/thestory
@balkissoon Yeah. Like, kids these days: they are totally cray for The Olive Garden. ???
@balkissoon But yes, FB etc. obviously still quite viable.
@balkissoon It seems like Pinterest, but social shopping? When asked, this is what they named!
@richardwarnica This is a winning marketing message, clearly!
Also interesting in that survey: every major social media site declined in importance, in the respondents' estimation.
There's something disarming about a shopping site whose slogan is "Literally buy all the things." What a time to be alive.
This was the number one site the teens surveyed told them about. It was the first time I'd heard of it: wanelo.com
This report (piperjaffray.com/private/pdf/Ta…) tracked teens' top "write-in" social media sites—those the researchers didn't specifically ask about.
"Elysium" looks pretty ridiculous, but I do think casting Jodie Foster as the villain is a masterstroke: youtu.be/EJ-bYOyQ46Y
But it's the only thing I haven't liked in an otherwise fantastic season, and I imagine it will sell a lot of tickets. So.
It's just a warmed-over "Oleanna" except instead of actual tension or ambiguity, it has N-words.
Saw "Race" at Canstage last night. Production's a fine attempt, but it's just a lousy play. Mamet bought his own hype on this one.
@lisanjutras @NPsteve @johnsemley3000 Hand to god, I owned the Garfield smooth-jazz album as a kid. Might still be at my parents' place.
I am on my way to see Jason Priestley in a David Mamet play about race relations. WHAT COULD GO WRONG
I feel like today is an apt time to say: I'm happy Nelson Mandela is still alive.
This Google sandbox thing showing off CSS 3D animations is pretty amazing. (You'll need Chrome, obv): creativesandbox.com/guidebook
@ACCheng actually a double bill on the theme of non-monogamy: Shaw's "Overruled" and LaBute's "Romance." Fun!
The pre-show music for this G.B. Shaw play I'm at is Ke$ha's "Die Young."
@kimfox hooray! I'm gfscott at gmail. Much obliged!
@kattancock Do you have invitations to give out? Asking for myself.
RT @nickhunebrown: Hey, they're making a Swallows and Amazons movie. deadline.com/2013/04/dan-st…
The main thing this Facebook Home parody video has to offer is the perfect nickname for the damn thing: "FacePalm": youtu.be/xcUUuXj28L8
@BrettRamsay yeah, that destroyed sign is so great.
A nifty digital longform feature on the business dealings behind the Jays' big 2013 season: site.canadianbusiness.com/longform/the-e…
A beautiful, melancholy photo essay on about dissipated state of the Philadelphia Inquirer: lenscratch.com/2013/04/center…
Roger Ebert's credo in judging a film: “Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions never lie to you.” nytimes.com/2013/04/05/mov…
RT @phillipadsmith: Very, very cool: "Introducing Tabula: Upload a PDF, get back tabular CSV data. Poof!" ps.ht/XNEEqJ via @Source
@Robsonian @LauraKusisto ...but then, you can't turn right on red in most NY intersections, yes? In which case I dunno.
@Robsonian @LauraKusisto I intuitively feel it must be mostly cars turning right on red. They're always up in my/our grill(s).
FT's web-based app now has 3.7 million subscribers; they'll soon shift Android app users over as well: foliomag.com/2013/ft-relaun…
RT @LauraKusisto: Scary thought: pedestrians are mostly likely to be hit while in a crosswalk with the light on their side http://t.co/T ...
@Robsonian I thought it was "FRAW-caw." Which is so ridiculous I would never say it out loud. Strictly a written word.
Good point: all these publishers rushing to responsive design are being stymied by the lack of "responsive ads": pbs.org/mediashift/201…
Worth watching, further to the decline of the banner ad, is all. Some publishers are just deciding it's not worth it: adage.com/article/media/…
The new Kinja design (already in use at io9 and Jalopnik) basically has no slots for display ads, so they're betting big on sponsored posts.
A screenshot of the new sponsored post format on the Gawker network: 
@ivortossell A thing or two, I'm sure.
or: Read the work of people who need to transmit data, not just those who write to express themselves. Part of this complete breakfast, etc.
J-students: there is something worth learning—perhaps especially so—from people who don't, and don't aspire to, write for a living.
"I add and subtract for a living. You get the picture." He writes like an accountant, and I mean that as a compliment.
This good Kevin Page op-ed about parliamentary accountability is also a master class in the declarative sentence: thestar.com/opinion/commen…
An April Fool's gag I actually liked — an all-baby production of Einstein on the Beach: bam150years.blogspot.ca/2013/04/bam-an…
@MissStaceyMay The Descent.
@briandstdenis It's humour like this that makes me unrelatable to Nielsen households and will ultimately lead to my cancellation.
@briandstdenis "Special appearance by TERI GARR in the role of 'Woodchipper'"
@briandstdenis A different mystery celebrity each week, like the callers on FRAISER. LeVar Burton! Shelley Duvall! Anthony Bourdain!
RT @chantalbraganza: The new RRJ just dropped. Cover story: Wente. 
@balkissoon Yeah, I feel like their already shallow and dubious reserves of post-WikiIeaks goodwill is evaporating lately.
@balkissoon 2. I used the requisite scare quotes. 3. This wasn't a "distributed" DOS attack; remarkably concentrated, in fact!
@balkissoon "Hack. verb: Cut with rough or heavy blows." It's actually accurate in this case!
Egypt's been under a denial-of-service attack for a week, except the "hackers" are literally using saws: qz.com/68115/forget-a…
@chantalbraganza Well, Massey-Levesque had the right idea with the wrong tech, I guess...
@typeter I don't feel the need, but the offer is appreciated...
Anyway. Fax machines. Sad.
For much of its history, fax paper had to be soaked in potassium ferro-cyanide, making it toxic to keep around an office.
The earliest commercial Fax sent surprisingly high-res images between Paris and Lyon, but the pace of business was so slow no one needed it.
Fax technology spent most of the 20th c. in the shadow of the telegraph, briefly blossomed, then was overwhelmed by email.
The inventor of the fax machine "died bitter and penniless in a home for incurables in 1877" after having all his patents invalidated.
For @typeter: a bizarre English TV history of the fax machine, the saddest technology in the world: youtu.be/IaCfs5Xb-EI
I would imagine that field produces some very useful pricing signals for the seller, without committing them to huge discounts.
I like that this e-learning site posts a price, but also lets you "make an offer" for what you'd like to pay. inculcate.me/school/courses…
Cloudflare's blog post on the ongoing mega-DDOS attack is also a nifty primer on the basic infrastructure of the web: blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-…
@dtopping "Fair enough."
@dtopping But they're actual quotes from reviewers! Many act as keywords, almost. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagat#Rat…
@HertzBarry Egad. a) that's eerie; b) that movie looks *awful*.
An Amazon warehouse worker is quoted in that piece as saying “You’re sort of like a robot, but in human form.”
"...and people who are told by computers what to do.” qz.com/67323/how-the-…
“The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories,” says Andreessen “People who tell computers what to do..."
@AndrwLvngstn They weren't zombies! They were regular high schoolers, learning important life lessons while decapitating corpses.
My dream last night was basically the premise of The Walking Dead, but with the cast from Freaks and Geeks.
I like this Gawker essay on political cowardice a lot, and the comments are actually great: gawker.com/5992413/coward…
Sweet merciful crap—Quicksilver has hit 1.0 after a decade of being "in beta." Recommended! blog.qsapp.com/post/462683658…
@crut Anyway, the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. Success!
@crut Susan filled me in! How delightful. I hear I didn't return an email one time, which is, let's be honest, classic me. Sorry!
Real editorial request I made last week: "Can you make this a little more Elmore Leonard-y?"
@briandstdenis TERI GARR, ladies and gentlemen! With RYAN O'NEAL and WARREN ZEVON
@crut uh oh.
Slow news day on the front page of the NYTimes: 
Beer nerds! This exposé on "craft beers" actually owned by megabrewers is here to ruin your Friday pints: canadianbusiness.com/lifestyle/the-…
RT @thechrisws: A dog that has a seeing-eye dog. soa.li/QCDT7mg
@jm_mcgrath @christindal Whereas the Schmidt Doctrine is like, sprinkle magic android phones on Burma and *poof!* Starbucks Democracy
@jm_mcgrath @christindal Totally, SMS is super-important in some places. but that's because it's a means, not an end in itself.
@christindal In a world with more cellphones than toilets (qz.com/65980/we-now-l…) there's some foundational work still to be done!
@christindal I don't doubt the importance of information at all—but I reject the approach of "add tech, stir well...capitalist democracy!"
Editing @maisonneuvemag would be a pretty rad job, you guys: maisonneuve.org/news/2013/03/2…
In its early days, that kind of blithe, idiot optimism was one of Google's main charms; now it seems like wilfully reckless naiveté.
Google's Eric Schmidt in Burma: "Young people plus technology equals prosperity": twitter.com/USEmbassyBurma…
Bitcoin is endlessly interesting: qz.com/65709/bitcoin-…
"A judge ordered him to stay away from the bingo hall. He also is forbidden to say the word “bingo” for six months." todaynews.today.com/_news/2013/03/…
A blog that photoshops guns out of film stills so everyone's giving the thumbs-up: thumbsandammo.blogspot.com
"The decision to offer low wages is a choice, not an economic necessity." qz.com/65322/the-econ…
Just realized I forgot to replace the collar stays when I put on this shirt. The horror.