This pumpkin-carving session took a conceptual turn near the end: "This is not a pumpkin": http://twitpic.com/30b6kj

Thanks all, for RTing/thoughtfully commenting on/indulging my weird indignation about a manufacturer of pants today.

@ksbrennan Re http://su.pr/1UVqeL —true, sexism/war on terror thing might be a tad overcooked. But I do think the dynamic is similar...

@nerdygirly Congratulations on your 1,000th follower, by the way.

@ivortossell Another strike against it!

Twitter helps those who retweet themselves. RT @thismagazine: Blog // The myth of Peak Masculinity: http://2th.is/PeakMan

@emmamwoolley @walrusmagazine "Tubal litigation"? I'm not sure lawsuits are an effective birth control method.

@emilylandau So true. Though it looks like @MsDorothyParker is doing a pretty good job of keeping the spirit of the Vicious Circle alive...

Dorothy Parker on Twitter: "The sun's gone dim and / The Moon's turned black; / For I followed him, and / he didn't follow back."

Something you don't see every day: the "Happy 100th Birthday" card my dad found to send to a cousin in Scotland.

(I mean, the "Ford is fat" column was bad. But, like, instantly fired bad?)

Does this — http://j.mp/bIZUbm — mean that all Globe columnists are one feeble article away from being thrown overboard?

@mawilson @chantalbraganza I've seen them for sale (similar to http://j.mp/99UgNw) at antique stores around Queen and Roncesvalles.

@chantalbraganza Me too. But I think card files are probably nowhere to be found at any elementary school anymore, sadly.

Kids these days. I had to make my own play-library materials. http://j.mp/ac876W

@emmamwoolley @brainstdenis Well, the newsstand sell-through rate five years ago for the 40th anniversary was good, at any rate.

@jordanclaire Ha! Weird. My tour of that whole facility was pretty crazy. I saw the ROSI server in person. It was...underpowered-looking.

@guardianweekly No apology necessary! These things happen. But correction is great. Thanks!

@boyreporter Re Tumblr, have you met @scrawledinwax? He wrote this: http://this.org/magazine/2009/09/04/pop-culture-tumblr/

The @guardianweekly earns its "Grauniad" nickname this week by misspelling Zaha Hadid's name in the headline: http://twitpic.com/2y64g5

@tvo Done! Sorry, don't mean to be a pain about all this. You can also email me: gfscott at gmail

Automatically turn photos into Chuck Close-style portraits with an HTML5 canvas element: http://d§.cc/closepxl8

@theophani Hm. Capital idea. When's the visit planned for?

@chantalbraganza Indeed. Demented and possibly inspired.

@TVO also, just a small technical quibble; T-shirt winners can't DM you for details unless you're following them. Just sayin'!

@TVO I see I won a T-shirt. Thanks! How do I go about collecting?

For tweeting this: http://j.mp/cV990D I won a Polkaroo t-shirt. This indiscriminate PR clusterbomb campaign is demented.

@typeter I love all bread products in all their infinite variety. Except pretzels. Eff pretzels.

@MissStaceyMay As long as you have hard-drive space for, I think. I've done interviews longer than an hour with it.

@MissStaceyMay Yep, I use iRecorder. It works fine for me. http://j.mp/bdlP3J

@theophani I reluctantly accept that victory. Again.

@griffithgreene Got a PR email and thought of you. Subject line: "Students Refurbish Al Purdy's Outhouse."

MAKE IT STOP RT @polkaroo: Polkaroo! RT @tvo: Should prostitution be legal?

@theophani @typeter "Can you hold this bag of vintage Penguins and croissants while I browse these Connie Francis LPs through my pince-nez?"

@emmamwoolley I'm sure that a) you can get a full report from someone after the fact; b) you probably know 70% of the people in the room.

J-Nerds! Come on down! RT @thismason Hacks/Hackers coming to Toronto: http://bit.ly/9e6zcm

@goldsbie @jsource No part of a public lecture at a public university by a sitting mayor is "off the record."

Ladies and gentlemen, the future of media: http://twitpic.com/2x2jv9 brought to you by the Empire Club: http://j.mp/alEuoE (h/t @mondoville)

@scrawledinwax I vote nay on 2nd account. Geo-limiting your web presence ~= "No Hulu for you, Canadian person." Digression: feature, not bug

(Well, not *possible,* since it was before. Easy. If you make it easy and not iTunes.)

New Sufjan today. Artists! I buy things on @bandcamp. With actual money. I will buy your mp3s if you make it possible: http://j.mp/aYjpti

Ha. Belatedly stumbled on #newtwitter's prudish feature of plain-brown-wrapping attachments from strangers: http://www.twitpic.com/2wve87

@AlisonGJ I'm listening to Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs" as we wait. Seemed apt. Does the GO train run to the Hammer on holidays?

@zoecormier @sarahbarmak Fun piece. Also...melancholy. If you haven't read @jonronson's "Them," I reccommend!

Dear @GreyhoundBus: You are *always* going to need a second bus going back to the city after a holiday weekend. Just sayin'.

@ivortossell And like a supermarket, I bought a few things and left a lot of crap on the shelves.

(Paglia's skidmark of a piece from two weeks ago, that is, a piece of tone-deaf 60s necrophilia: http://j.mp/9anjq3)

Coupland's Sat. Globe thing: slightly silly, but #17 is the riposte to Paglia's Boomer nostalgia I couldn't articulate: http://j.mp/98bJSr

@kattancock Good question! The internet is trying to get me to find out, but I'm refusing. Join me in wilful ignorance!

I've maintained a near-perfect ignorance of Insane Clown Posse for some time now, and I'm not sure even the Guardian is going to shake that.

Satisfying task, log-stacking. Perfect OCD job, battling entropy and Tetris-izing everything into one ordered pile.

Thanksgiving at parents = manual labour! Stacked woodpile, before & after: http://twitpic.com/2w3w0z http://twitpic.com/2w3w1i

@cathybutler That one was aimed at you. Unfortunately, appears to have almost nothing to do with the show.

Are there any sweeter words than "Maniac Mansion is now following you on Twitter"?

@UnionSt So much new vocabulary! I'd heard about GTL, but much was new to me: DTF, Grenades, Landmines, T-shirt Time, Chortles...

Thanks, kind of, to @nerdygirly for a whirlwind lesson in all things Jersey Shore. Pop-culture Coles Notes. Edifying/horrifying.

@Canadianmags Did you make a change to the blog's RSS feed? It was showing the full posts, not an excerpt, in my Google Reader this morning.

Dear @Spacing: I have a cold and so can't come to the party tonight. Have fun without me. I will be messed up on Life Brand cold medication.

Dear @Spacing: I have a cold and so cambe at your party tonight. Have fun w/out me. I will be messed up on Life Brand cold medication.

@ivortossell The most outrageous part is that there's someone actually using Plurk.

@emmamwoolley Massey College. No question. Seems closed to outsiders, but whimsical and odd once you're in.

The tenant in the office/studio next door blasts Star Trek reruns at high volume all day. TNG, DS9, Voyager. Brain-invasive theme music.

I use, and love, Instapaper. Just saying it's a cruel irony for, say, NYT, that I use it to read their work ad-free, then pay the middleman.

People will pay for convenience of @instapaper, but not the writing they read on it. That's a lesson: http://nie.mn/aWwCA1 via @boyreporter

@jaimewoo (belatedly:) Zing!

@WaxEBuildup @jaimewoo Thanks for the job retweet earlier today — got some nibbles on the line.

@ACCheng Belatedly, yes to that drink. November issue closes next Monday. Next week some time?

The Twitter @anywhere button is awful. Its inscrutability is bordering on Facebookian: http://twitpic.com/2ux2p7

I have some paid work to farm out! Moving HTML > WP. Reqs: Attention to detail, diligence. Schedule & $ TBD. @, DM, or email for details.

@UnionSt Hey, I smirked too at Jiffy Lube thing. But would hate to see message descend into "you're married with kids & poor LOL"

@UnionSt Am put off by class-war tone of some #ItGetsBetter vids. "I grew up to be a creative-class d-bag. Change my oil, vanquished bully!"

(because hashtag jokes are always better when overexplained: http://j.mp/9xl8uy)

Nobel physicists made graphene—atom-thin sheets of carbon—with graphite and Scotch™ tape: http://j.mp/cVUOL0 #scienceitworksbitches

@ACCheng True! Sorry I couldn't stick around last night, went home to nurse my cold.

@vanmag_com Right. (Duh.) Nope, not so far as I know.

@vanmag_com F.R. who? (no matter who, probably not)

@thekeenanwire Not a problem. Twitter, full frank exchange of views, etc. Fire away!

@thekeenanwire Sure. Talk was...meandering, to be charitable. With a few quotable moments. I quoted.

Newman on Chrètien: "People talk about how he won 3 majorities. They forget he was running against Campbell, Manning, and, uh... wetsuit."

Newman on political journalism now—"PM calls press conference, press gallery turns up, that's the story for the day. I think that's stupid."

Newman on Harper's advance-retreat governance style: "He has an unerring instinct for his own jugular."

Newman on Iggy: "He's a very interesting man. I don't know about his chances, but I know he's worth a book."

Newman on Harper: "We've gone from a one-party state under the Liberals to the one-man government."

At the Gardiner Museum for @LRCmag's evening with Peter C. Newman. I am radically underdressed.

@jkdegen Me too! The hat in person!

It's extremely cold in our office. I'm looking for something in a business-casual Slanket.

"More states allowing guns in bars." Home of the brave, but not necessarily the sensible. http://goo.gl/7ZmX

Him: "This is a fire hazard." Her: "*You're* a fire hazard." #nboh

"I like those clowns." #nboh

@ivortossell Some aesthetics are indelible.

@scrawledinwax Those kids are having almost as much fun as they did at their Windows 7 party!

RT @ivortossell: Tomorrow night, let's record what we overhear in response to art (& "art"). Use hashtag #nboh: Nuit Blanche Overheard

@janelangille Yeah, I agree the curly bracket seems a little dated as a design touch. Not as out-of-date as the chevron, however! >>

@MissStaceyMay I feel like we need a pledge that media outlets can take to stop running this stupid story over and over again.

No: http://goo.gl/x389

...Stories have focused on "German printing presses" etc, but cosmetic changes will be invisible in a few weeks. Content transformation: TBD

Lightning impression: design-wise, a totally OK relaunch whose import has been oversold. Changes are mostly under the hood.

... Glossy paper stock: nifty, photos pop. But inside, semi-glossy newsprint stock: yikes. Bad repro, photos muddy and washed-out.

... Influence of Guardian is visible everywhere (but that's true every newspaper redesign these days). Steal from the best!

Globe insta-punditry: agree with @SusanDelacourt that 1990 change was more drastic. Centre "Folio" spread: thumbs up.