Some advanced Google search techniques: johntedesco.net/blog/2012/06/2…
Gawker comments now "Powered by Kinja," a decade-old, now-defunct(?) service: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinja 
At this Rotman #rlll12 conference. All 3 speakers so far say poverty and income inequality represent a crisis for private enterprise.
Saxophonist playing “Autumn Leaves” on Bloor Street: TOO SOON
@jaimewoo Spiders and falling condo-balcony glass and cholera are scary. This is of moderate fiscal concern, I'd say.
That's quite the stock market graph you're sporting today, TSX: 
Odd. Android zoomed from nowhere to #1 on the list of top brands for LGBTQ consumers this year: mashable.com/2012/06/21/and…
Game of Thrones attack ads: "Daenerys Targaryen: Wrong For Dragons, Wrong For The Realm": motherjones.com/politics/2012/…
RT @alexmolotkow: I call bullshit on death.
@WScott_Steele I know, it's strange. Seems like exactly the kind of thing that would be preserved on YouTube.
"Post all the bills!" Bill Maher on left, Wild Bill Hickok on right. instagr.am/p/MB8HTjKF4j/
(Which ad is further proof, if any were needed, that advertising is the quintessential American art form.)
I recalled that PBS thing after seeing the new "Land of Dreams" ads, which evoke a similar mood: youtube.com/watch?v=bcfbdi…
Wanted: link to a PBS promo video, for which I can only find this transcript: davidjakes.com/americas-story — Anyone else remember this?
"Disco's imperial phase is the closest [pop] ever got to the irrational exuberance of a stock-market bubble": guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may…
.@theophani has a new project to encourage more female speakers at tech conferences, and it is good: netmagazine.com/interviews/tif…
A cool visualization of movie poster colour schemes, 1914–2012 — we've entered a blue period: vijayp.ca/blog/?p=214
@journo_dale I'm not sure you missed much, but I'm still thinking about it. I don't think the big screen is integral in this case.
@chantalbraganza I did! It's not good. I'm not even sure it's an interesting failure, but I had to stay.
...Probably because it's boring and weird and strangely low rent and everyone talks like David Mamet channelling Judith Butler.
Of the ~18 people at the screening of "Cosmopolis" I was at, six walked out before the 30-minute mark.
@nikki_stafford Hey, that's great. Fingers crossed!
@nikki_stafford !! What's the award? Congratulations!
"X-Men Guernica" is even more awesome than you think it's going to be: theamat.deviantart.com/art/X-Men-Guer…
@SharleneClarke Thanks! Oh, sours were had, rest assured. On a few different occasions! How's the wild wild west?
Here's my @CdnBusinessMag (re)debut, on the Eurocrisis. Events overtook it on a few points, but: canadianbusiness.com/article/86614-…
That $2,000 Porsche-designed Blackberry looks like a leftover prop from "Space: 1999"
@stubbornella Right, I got it backward. So count me in agreement: it would be useful!
RT @tdechant: Readers have sent me tons of examples of income inequality seen from space. Take a look @PerSquareMile. bit.ly/LkyMwb
@stubbornella @twitter It exists! twitterdotcom/[username]/followers_you_follow — shows you all followers in common.
@joyce_byrne @jaclynlaw I did take notes! I'll have to get them off my laptop, but I can send them your way.
@briandstdenis True! I eagerly await the sequel where Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender's head crash on a desert island, "Castaway" style.
@NatalieZed Glad to hear it! (As in, I'm happy about it, but @chantalbraganza and @mcpalassio actually made it happen.)
(Not that it's about point scoring, of course. But still. We consciously made gender balance a priority and the results followed.)
Am proud to see @thismagazine one of the leaders in the @CanWomenInLit survey out today: goo.gl/Zpje6
@briandstdenis Re: Prometheus sucking; where were all these people and their unimpeachable taste when that stinker Inception came out?
Hm. Huffington Magazine, you say: huffingtonmagazine.com
@briandstdenis It's also catnip for jQuery fans, for what it's worth.
An amazing infographic on shooting and scoring patterns in the NBA finals: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
@pheather @JennMG ...in which I haltingly fail to explain what heds and deks are, despite the fact it is my job to write display. Blerg
I'm going in. If I'm not back in five hours, the minimalists got me. @ Sony Centre for the Performing Arts instagr.am/p/LqvfmfKF9P/
@Canadianmags, @joyce_byrne, and @nerdygirly at our #magnet12 end-of-week drinkup: 
This Slate "Muppet Theory" piece is such obvious clickbait, but it's utterly delightful: goo.gl/AYgz9
Ian is a fiercely talented photographer, as you can see on his website: ianwillms.com — Art directors, hire him!
Awfully proud of the @thismagazine crew and Ian Willms, awarded #NMA gold for this photoessay: this.org/magazine/2011/…
@jamescowan Aw, thanks. Pshaw.
That's from this @ian_black piece, "Syria is looking like Bosnia 20 years ago": guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may…
"In the age of YouTube and Twitter, no one can claim ignorance [of Syria's atrocities]... But knowledge turns out to make no difference."
I did not know that Twitter's logo, just redesigned, is named Larry — after Larry Bird: underconsideration.com/brandnew/archi…
Once again, I'll be liveblogging the @MagNetCanada keynote, starting in a few minutes here: scrbliv.me/48842
(If you'll be there, have a laptop, and want to join in the liveblogging fun with me, email or @)
Happy Magazine Week — I intend to liveblog Richard Turley's @MagNetCanada keynote tonight here: scrbliv.me/48842
As banal as it seems, we really are living in a golden age of glass engineering: bbc.com/news/technolog…
“Reason...rides into battle on the elephant of intuition”: guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/…
RT @Wesley_Morris: Young Adult, Snow White, Prometheus: Charlize Theron has fully Dunawayed.
"The idea that art and commerce are at odds is a remnant of an old culture war": nytimes.com/2012/06/05/art…
@joyce_byrne When do you touch down in TO? Are the circulators gettingn together?
RT @julianborger: BBC just claimed Queen "looks so animated" and "she's looks like she's having a great time". She looks as miserable a ...
RT @smithjournalist: It was! MT@timalamenciak: This opera about Afghanistan sounds amazing. Intro'd by @smithjournalist and Richard Colv ...
Poemotion, a book of optical illusions/poems by Takahiro Kurashima: vimeo.com/40808542
Who at Bankia thought that building its headquarters listing to one side was a great image for a bank? goo.gl/KGmtv
Given FB's acknowledged mobile weakness, interesting that Pew finds correlation between smartphones and Twitter use: goo.gl/nlDJU
.@pheather: "For my look at the @NatMagAwards humour category, 'Spaceballs' will be the benchmark of funny": goo.gl/nxm0z
@nerdygirly Prime @thismagazine placement at Wordsworth Books in Waterloo: 
DIY Fisher-Price toy records: goo.gl/YgNKy (I'm sure some record company will oblige with a hilarious DMCA takedown.)
@bborzyko Naturally! Should have googled first.
As the Euro crumbles, it will be a missed opportunity if some copy editor doesn't use “Drachma Queens” in a headline.
This strikes me as an improbably eloquent statement on the human condition: youtu.be/711bZ_pLusQ
@TheGameSheet @sarahbarmak RBI! EBITDA! Buy! Sell!
@knitquilt Definite yes! Pretty jazzed to start next week.
Thanks for the kind words and encouragement on the new gig, everybody. (And/or for withholding your ire.) I start Monday!
I think *I* say hooray, but: RT @jamescowan Hooray! Pleased to announce @gfscott is joining Canadian Business as a managing editor.
873 stock photos painstakingly stitched together into a 1-minute life story, kinda: youtu.be/E7xc7J8bdsU
@joyce_byrne All of the above!
@joyce_byrne Congratulations on being Mags Canada volunteer of the year. Not a surprise, but well deserved.
@MissStaceyMay @danicouture Play It As It Lays, seconded.
From the this-wasn't-a-problem-but-I-like-the-solution-anyway file: Magpile.com, like Goodreads, but for magazines.
Two picnics in two days. Achievement unlocked! instagr.am/p/K26Sm2qF-h/
It would be nice to see more IPOs as accurately priced as FB. Big day-1 pops reward insiders more than the company itself.
@ivortossell The stars look very diff-er-ent today.
...hearing my fellow downtown yuppie scum chatter about how they didn't know how they'd get home on the way out of the theatre.
The Ira Glass song-and-dance hour was fun, but the best part, I thought, of seeing it at the Richmond Hill theatre was...
...But Conrad Black's case is totally routine, of course, with no wink and nod from the minister's office: goo.gl/2ujTP
Canada granted 6,541 temporary residency permits to convicted criminals last year—only one to an applicant while still in prison.
Another gee-whiz cover from the masters of subtlety at Businessweek: goo.gl/kpCc9
And to the visual wizards: Dave Donald, @HyeinPain, and Ian Willms. (Plus the ringleader of the whole gang, @nerdygirly)
All credit to the writers who did the heavy lifting: Meghan Davidson Ladly, Natalie Gallo, @jennhardy, @DearOtherPeople, @SimonWallace ...
I know the #NMA noms are yesterday's news, but very pleased to see @thismagazine get three nods: goo.gl/XWYY1
@shawnmicallef Absolutely. But regardless, this particular experiment didn't work. Spielberg's easy to blame, but not 100% responsible.
@jm_mcgrath It seems something like that ending was part of Kubrick's vision as well, though. You could see it being a 2001-esque coda...
@shawnmicallef I'm not totally sure that's true. I think the story's problems go deeper than who directs; the whole concept is...off.
@jm_mcgrath I don't know either; they had qualities in common, for sure, so untangling the mix is hard (and probably pointless?)
In the end, a Kubrick-Spielberg mix is just...really offputting. A treacle-dripping confection with a razor blade in it.
...the ambitious but completely awful production design; & perhaps John Williams' least-memorable score ever.
i.e., the curdled mix of sentiment and misanthropy; borderline abusive emotional manipulation; wildly inappropriate Holocaust analogies...
I drove me to re-watch A.I. last night. Verdict: still not a good movie, but the (many) ways it's bad are mostly pretty interesting.
I highly recommend a look at the all-Spielberg issue of @Reverse_Shot. A massive, authoritative retrospective: goo.gl/TnRUH
Echo Beach does not seem like a good venue for an Andrew Bird concert: goo.gl/QFmpz
...which obstacles include: The CRTC, Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, its competitors, advertisers and audience, and its own low ratings.