@shawnmicallef Shudder — that "#day1" is like Cronkite signing off with the number of days of the Iran hostage crisis. #444

Denton on the forthcoming Gawker redesign: http://goo.gl/VHQYy (beware—the future, apparently, is auto-playing video).

RT @ACCheng: Re: culture war, US public media "shouldn't bring a tote bag to a knife fight" http://to.pbs.org/gtgG9E (via @craigsilverman)

@emmamwoolley @MissStaceyMay Hey, don't sugarcoat it. They need to hear it bluntly, early, often. (also: break a leg)

@emmamwoolley That's not at all true. I'm actually a terrible copy editor; I just have a few immovable pet peeves.

@lisanjutras LOGIC BOMB

@lisanjutras OK. "That = which" is untrue. Therefore "that" does not equal (≠) "which". That doesn't mean their use cases can't overlap!

@JillLanglois Yes! I don't want to be that guy who corrects people on Twitter, but, well, here we are.

less ≠ fewer. practice ≠ practise. peek ≠ peak. that ≠ which. that ≠ who.

@BenjaminCormier It's true, her antics bring the LOLs more reliably than most. But it's a nervous laughter.

@kattancock @chantalbraganza ...it's true, the slip is symptomatic of her generalized cluelessness.

@kattancock On the recording, she talks first about "sanctioning" North Korea, before calling them allies. God knows what she meant, but...

Re: "North Korean Allies" — everyone makes slips of the tongue. Palin is awful for far more substantive reasons than this.

@ryanmerkley Boffo news! (Winning name, too.) Glad to hear everyone's doing well.

@emmamwoolley I think we're in a golden age for introverts. Web = asynchronous socializing; txts, not phonecalls; ambient geek triumphalism.

@hyfen It was good—286 new subscriptions, more than we were expecting. Determining success really depends on renewal rates a year from now.

Another mag, @SkiCanadaMag, testing the Groupon waters (good deal, actually: $12 for 2 yrs): (http://bit.ly/hVAjgN) via @WaxEBuildup

@briandstdenis @ivortossell It doesn't matter whether we whisper or not — Steve hears all. Spies everywhere.

@ivortossell I feel like @rebelmayor, only no one was curious.

Someone just tossed a reference to the Kevin Spacey movie "K-Pax" into casual conversation. What?

RT @nicomuhly: "Cocorosie" autocorrects to cockfight. #patriarchy

It's been a while since I drove a standard. Much inadvertent revving. The accidental drag racer.

@jamescowan Nice to meet you last night, sorry not to talk more — I bolted for the coffee station!

Whole-wheat baguettes are an abomination.

@MissStaceyMay @goldsbie As soon as Fraser said that, I felt a disturbance in the force.

@Robsonian Doesn't seem accidental, really, just...oblivious? But really, no one in the office was like, "um, you guys."

The @wired boob cover issue (I bought, grimacing) also uses "Vinyl Solution" on a turntable review. Yikes: http://twitpic.com/37qm3z

@emilylandau @kelkord I held off on responding; I knew you'd test it out and see for yourself. Another convert!

@kelkord @sarahbarmak Ditto! I swoon.

@kelkord I'm so all over Workflowy. The first online to-do list that's ever stuck for me. Fly your geek flag high!

Never linked to a cute cat picture before, but: this baby Jaguar a) is cute, obviously; b) bit Jay Leno on the face. So: http://goo.gl/PSaXR

Few weeks old, but this story on a Pakistani school that deprograms teenage Taliban bombers is worth the read: http://j.mp/aZURCB

@scrawledinwax He was really enjoying that rendition of Bad Romance.

@ivortossell showing off his accordion http://instagr.am/p/O7Cq/

@nealjennings @unionst I don't know, but I call shenanigans.

Finally read the Zadie Smith Facebook essay. A) snore. B) personae are not zero-sum games. C) the movie kinda blew, the more I dwell on it.

@UnionSt Polling which is more uptight is a supremely uptight thing to do.

James Frey continues to be one of the world's more fascinating douchebags: http://goo.gl/J92Mh

I don't think you can say a memo "leaked" when it was circulated to 25,000 employees. http://bit.ly/9zFYsE via @ivortossell

@kelkord It was gone and then returned and then gone for good: http://goo.gl/KsTD1

@meganmcchesney Too many updates. TW and FB are different beasts with different user expectations. I think rule of thumb is "When in Rome."

@ivortossell Goats Across Canada has trotted off to the pasture in the sky, unfortunately.

@maxfawcett No idea. A curious alchemy...

@maxfawcett I think an #ironyis hashtag would take off.

@hyfen Exactly! Toronto-variant sushi is different from the original conception, but it's valid. And still tasty.

@BenjaminCormier Anyway, what @ivortossell said. As always, he said it better and earlier.

@BenjaminCormier Sure, that's fine. I wouldn't eat it, but I'm not going to get all culturally constipated about it.

@BenjaminCormier Customs adapt for time, geography, audience. No such thing as Platonic Sushi. Postmodern Death Of The Sushi Chef.

@jordanclaire Totally. Though I think the typo is the lesser evil in a top-to-bottom misfire.

@BenjaminCormier Heh. But no.

I think "authenticity" is my most hated concept. Screw your sushi essentialism: http://goo.gl/DR5Ul

I can't wait for everything in the world to be a vintage Penguin book cover.

@MissStaceyMay But it was probably a snark too far regardless.

@MissStaceyMay Fair. But the video already equates their celebritude with their "better"ness. I don't think I'm reading that in...

@MissStaceyMay @emmamwoolley @scrawledinwax Ain't no hating here. Vid is a necessary message, well made. But not exempt from critique.

@chantalbraganza Brutal. Though I do kind of want to read "In a Pickle!"

Joining the #crooksource pile-on: Shouldn't it be Cook's Source? Or Cooks' Source? Apostrophes are public domain.

@kattancock No problem, I wasn't exactly on the ball with plans tonight. Next time!

@kattancock ...more to the point, is it still happening? I just have "web people pub night" in my calendar.

@kattancock Hey, uh, where is this get-together?

RT @nerdygirly: Dear @thismagazine: Congrats on your newsstand win! For the fifth year in a row! So proud of you.

I predict #scotiabankpandas: http://goo.gl/sHZ2

@briandstdenis That rent reminder is quite handy. What a time to be alive.

@typeter Your deadpan skills are, to be fair, above average.

@typeter "If something’s from the 1880s, and looks like a bathtub, and it’s outside, there’s a pretty good chance that it’s a horse trough."

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living In My Pants #modernartinmypants

@griffithgreene You've made me believe in Halloween again with this costume.

Matt & Kim opening act is a derivative ATL rapper who keeps calling us "T-Dot" and cuts off songs to urge us to "make some noise."

@wundertime Ha! Do you know where I can get that plush Snowy in Toronto in less than 24 hours?

@theophani That is some sweet draggable window action. Font-face too! I like.

@susancbond Agreed. Also, what are you doing actually tweeting? I thought you were content being a lurker.

(credit where credit's due: Found that on @slaw_dot_ca: http://goo.gl/8OWa)

Dude with amazing hair records multitrack song on the fly with iPhone audio looping app: http://goo.gl/sKyo

@karenkho ...continuing my two-year streak of going as a half-assed Archie: http://goo.gl/xVy

@karenkho Oh, I'll come. I'm getting a little white stuffed dog and coming as a half-assed Tintin. http://goo.gl/Ds7D

I am in full Halloween Grinch mode. This holiday is getting to be worse than New Year's for its [hype : actual fun] ratio.

@jengerson @karenkho "Angels in Etobicoke" — band name!

@chantalbraganza Well, so long as we AGREE TOTALLY

@jasonmcbride68 Thanks! I'm just irked by this notion that not voting for someone means disrespecting/devauling the people who did.

@chantalbraganza No, I mean, we *don't* have to sing from this hymnbook. Principled opposition is important.

@maxfawcett I think the megacity could be reversed on its own (de)merits—not just one electoral result.

...i.e., we must repent, meekly, for our ignorance of the "Real Toronto," as if disagreeing with the result equals "not getting it."

I see the expected post-election script of the non-Ford voter emerging: self-abnegation, with a side of self-loathing: http://goo.gl/QL8d

@timothycomeau The email list is about conceptual art, or the email list *is* conceptual art? OR BOTH?

Firefox is "a pantomime horse with 100,000 people inside being asked to race in the Grand National." http://goo.gl/kdas (via @doingitwrong)

Who in Canada would be a venue for a Google "digital journalism innovation" grant? http://goo.gl/0LdD Tell them to get on it.

RT @julespenner: Yes! RT @meslin: Pants vote + George vote > Ford vote. Ready for Runoff Voting in TO? http://www.RaBIT.ca

Anyone spotted any Canadian magazines out there using Facebook display ads? (New citizen of Fordonia or not, life and work go on.)

OH at this party: "It looks like he's going to start shouting about living in a van down by the river."

@sspencerdavis Yeah, spoke a little soon on that.

@scrawledinwax @sarahbarmak Word.

RT @balkissoon: 21% voter turnout elects a mayor by not even 51% of the votes. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Can we get a better ballot now?

Screw moving away. I'm staying *right here* to antagonize and obstruct this mayor's gruesome agenda.

@maxfawcett I suppose there's a certain nihilistic comfort in knowing your single vote wasn't decisive?

All that handwringing about strategic voting/"voting your heart" seems kind of misplaced in retrospect, given the numbers.

Sigh.

Looking at Henry Moore sculptures always makes me feel like I'm in a New Yorker cartoon, circa 1932.

@catesimpson Exactly. What are we to do with these groupings of character archetypes? Get indignant about their (in)accuracy? Crisis!

@nealjennings Yes, and I think it's even a relatively new addition to the new interface. Here's your profile: http://twitpic.com/30ilrb

Has everyone else looked at Twitter's "Similar to you" list on your profile page? Did it provoke existential crisis? Uh, me neither.