@ryanmerkley I'm rooting for the "Orson Welles" clap: goo.gl/euuLi
RT @lastplaceman: Hustler is produced in Quark?! RT @balkissoon Hustler is hiring copy editors: bit.ly/nRBsGy
@typeter It's not in the wild yet. Must fix some bugs first. Also: I see what you did there.
@briandstdenis THAT'S NOT FUNNY
@brysongilbert Excellent idea. Perhaps a more general extension that allows users to select what they want corrected...
@lisanjutras It still needs some tinkering. It, er, also causes all of Twitter.com not to display properly. Beta problems.
@lisanjutras 100%
I made my first Chrome extension: It does nothing except correct "sneak peak" on any web page you visit. #pedantry
@emmamwoolley For the 39,000 people who have so far clicked that link, the answer is apparently yes. (I was wondering what T-Mobile thinks.)
I wonder if this is what they call "on brand"? twitpic.com/6ky1i1
@danalacey That is a risk we all run, every day of our lives.
@walrusmagazine Only one thing for the tweeter to do: youtu.be/AzusuXSj8Y0
@meganmcchesney My idea of evil is standing left on the escalator, so yeah, it's probably him.
@meganmcchesney Watch out, he's probably the evil version. OR MAYBE I AM #twilightzone
@kattancock Seems likely. So also, where are the rest of their posts coming from?
@kattancock Yikes. They even copied the related article links as a non-sequitur list in the middle of the article. Brazen.
@navalang Though I would have gone with @navflix, I will follow this useful thing.
@briandstdenis Actually, the LA Times architecture critic. But from Coupland, it would've been an endorsement, not a criticism...
A takedown of the new Apple flying saucer HQ: "retrograde cocoon ... detatched and anti-urban ... pastoral capitalism": goo.gl/7n5sV
@emmamwoolley ThisMag did a short history of Canadian attack ads last spring: goo.gl/knKnu
(Though I would *love* to start using the portmanteau of "HuffPoo!")
Misbegotten media megamerger madness: Aol & Yahoo: goo.gl/iSu9X
@briandstdenis @lisanjutras @thekeenanwire Blues Brothers and Porky's would make for quite the double-bill. Early 80s overdose.
@thekeenanwire @lisanjutras @briandstdenis Never seen Porky's, actually. CanCon fail!
@lisanjutras @briandstdenis There is a *lot* of swearing. Also, it was 1980, so different standards? But Blue Velvet: yowza!
@briandstdenis That's so responsible of your parents. Were there any parts that almost nixed your attendance?
@briandstdenis Later we scandalized a pious young friend of mine by screening it at a sleepover. More swears than he'd ever heard, likely.
@briandstdenis Don't remember for sure, but I think my first R-rated must have been my parents getting The Blues Brothers on VHS. F-bombs!
Republican 1950s fantasia soundtrack — The Hi-Los on the Rosemary Clooney Show: youtu.be/-hdL6cI79ws
@balkissoon Kensington it is.
@balkissoon Ting remains humanity's highest soft drink achievement to date. Hard to find downtown, though.
@chantalbraganza I would love to see that list broken down in terms of Latin, Greek, French roots. Which is greatest source of beauty?
@serial_consign Must know: is pico named after the unit of measurement, or the unix word processor? (or none of the above)
@typeter Indeed, it did get my attention. But since I haven't used their brand name, I don't think this campaign is meeting their goals...
@flinnflon On the company site there are other genres you can order, too. They charge consumers $60 per book for this service!
@ivortossell It's like it's happening RIGHT NOW.
@mawilson What's unreal is they must have done this for scores of people. And that they try and sell these books to the general public!
@tinyalligator Never have, no,
...and then mail it to me. Voila! twitpic.com/6da4o4 (presumably, lather, rinse, repeat.)
...then insert that personal info, mad-libs style, so that I am the hero of said bad novel. Publish it as a cheap print-on-demand book...
...Then write a bad sci-fi novel about unauthorized medical experimentation...
How to make the creepiest PR pitch of the year: scrape my name, photo, and other identifying characteristics from the web...
@jm_mcgrath S*M*E*R*S*H #sovietsitcoms
@briandstdenis I think we all got the gist of it. "Curb All Enthusiasm" however, is sublime.
@briandstdenis For some nihilists, believing nothing leads to feeling nothing, but it isn't synonymous: goo.gl/8Nan0
USGS details on the earthquake: goo.gl/cjFN0
Actually felt that #QuakeTO. Missed the last one.
@stevenwbeattie @danicouture @NatalieZed @emmamwoolley Shame that the most quotable remark of the evening was, as always, the most flippant.
@chantalbraganza Notable omission from CJR's J-flicks list: The Philadelphia Story. Jimmy Stewart & Ruth Hussey are reluctant tabloid hacks.
Interesting. The Guardian has conjured a music review site, containing 3 million album listings, out of thin air: goo.gl/o5iXE
I thought CSS browser quirks were maddening until I met the PDF/X protocols.
@ivortossell That one's pending. It's a comprehensive portfolio.
@ivortossell I've filed a defensive patent for "a series of sounds, produced by the human voice, that expresses scorn for Ivor Tossell"
@theophani For a slightly different earworm, try the earlier Sesame Street version of Mah nà Mah nà: goo.gl/2nEPj
@theophani "Somebody thought of that, and someone believed it; and look what it's done so far."
Gus Van Sant follow-shot fan catnip: three minutes of people walking in movies. Hypnotically satisfying. goo.gl/rNsYT
@kelkord @ivortossell Supernatural, one might say.
@briandstdenis @ivortossell Reverse-cover amends: Electric Mayhem nicely covers "New York State of Mind": youtu.be/i06cGfI3psM
@briandstdenis @ivortossell Ha, didn't actually listen to any other tracks. That OK Go version is not-even-in-the-ballpark lousy.
Andrew Bird sings “Bein’ Green,” Weezer does ”Rainbow Connection,” and it kinda works: goo.gl/f06FZ (ht @thismason)
@jm_mcgrath Oh most definitely others. Just a well-wisher/internet paparazzo.
Terrorism/marriage fist-bump @ City Hall Wedding Chamber instagr.am/p/KFO5O/
@kelkord Chowhound is the elder statesman, so I'll let it slide. But I like that this is one of its bigger posts today: goo.gl/R0Squ
User-review food sites (Yelp/Chow/etc): the worst. All the doltishness of a YouTube comment thread—plus a thick layer of sniffy pomposity.
RT @jasonmcbride68 Ryan Trecartin's epic 5-hour video cycle "Any Ever" (2009-10) in its entirety on UbuWeb: http://goo.gl/mkLQW
@fronx Well played, sir.
@jm_mcgrath Hypersonic plane fail + This week in U.S. news = http://goo.gl/BYA5W
"Jen shook her head in confusion at your latest tweet"; "Tim is really sick of your Foursquare checkins": http://goo.gl/kBRvG
@typeter No joke, they're testing a paywall outside the U.S. Five free articles per month, then NYT-style nag-message.
@jordanclaire I thought you might notice that tweet. Not sure if it means agreement with army telecom—or all Iraq gets free Onion access?
The Onion's paywall won't apply to places abroad where "a lot of American troops are deployed in combat." http://goo.gl/d6G8J
Perhaps the UK government should change the name of its emergency committee to something less evil-sounding than COBRA: goo.gl/avItN
@maxfawcett Is "Reportisan" an original coinage? Because Bravo.
@chantalbraganza Haven't read the Bin Laden piece yet, but ran across this kinda-takedown this morning: http://goo.gl/mqf8I — thoughts?
@briandstdenis The release was for a book unrelated to money or monetary policy. Also the loonie is dated 1987, and is pretty grimy.
@navalang Perhaps I should use it to buy a stamp to mail the change back to them?
@adamvrankulj @nextMEDIAnow But publishing it rewards the behaviour, which, you know, I don't really feel like doing...
@meganmcchesney Zing
This press release came with a loonie glued to it. Journalism pop-quiz, hot shots: what can I ethically do with that dollar?
I'm beginning to doubt the sincerity of the "Striving for Customer Service Excellence" poster on the wall of this bus station waiting room.
WHEREAS they are a bankrupt format, I hereby pledge never to write an "Open Letter" to anyone, ever.
@christindal Touché. All Landed, no Gentry.
@christindal The landed gentry.
@wornjournal This made me think of you: Q&A on the seamstresses who hand-sewed the Apollo spacesuits: http://goo.gl/Ewx7O
@kady I declared Classics Bankruptcy a few years ago, writing off centuries of literature I'm simply never going to get to. Felt good.
( Rejected names for that colour: Skyvory, Cosmic Khaki, Big Bang Buff, Univeige: goo.gl/znyIY )
In 2002, astronomers computed the average colour of the universe. Turns out it's beige: goo.gl/9xc58
@shawnmicallef Honderich? Znaimer?
@shawnmicallef Lots to like in that slideshow, but I think my favourite parts are the epic New York accents.
@jordanclaire The Cat in the Hat. Very stylish.
@ivortossell Isn't consumer-grade CRM partly to blame for your hellish R0gers experiences?
@jordanclaire @serial_consign I am not convinced about the hat, but I would need to see it on someone's head, in situ.
@serial_consign @emmamwoolley @jordanclaire I am increasingly curious about this hat. Pictures or it doesn't exist.
I expect a Toronto version of this any day — http://goo.gl/KFg1X — and proximity will make it even more irritating.
@theophani That 38ºC is *before* humidex, note. Supposed to feel closer to 44!
G+ iPhone app: http://goo.gl/Md7jL
@kattancock I'm not sure any other kind of tuning fork exists? A "post-adjusted" tuning fork? Oxymoron!
Bjork, you so crazy. Biophilia "presented in a lacquered silkscreened box...with 10 chrome-plated tuning forks". £500! http://goo.gl/USnIh
@pomeranian99 "Who is number one?" "You are number six" http://goo.gl/MVo8C
@cardCK I think this would do it: http://goo.gl/060wm