@joyce_byrne Old copies of Shift, or This? We have a complete This archive.
@WaxEBuildup @joycebyrne after Shift reminiscence, looked up Shift.com, which is now a hilarious, self-parodic marketing company.
Factoid! Bankers Morgan Stanley chartered more oil tankers than petroleum producer Chevron in 2009.
@mawilson This Magazine is known for many things, but a) bringing the lulz; and b) making mad coin, are not among them.
@maxfawcett Suspicious, but not a smoking gun. I filled out the form to satisfy my curiosity. Will keep you posted!
@mawilson Editorial control—pfft. The point is $$$. Sell local ads around cheapo wire content. T.O.night, but (intentionally) funny.
@maxfawcett I dunno, it's got that Onion tone, but even for them, this is pretty deadpan. I thought it was real, but you've planted doubt...
Hey, who wants to round up $180,000 and start a Toronto franchise of The Onion? http://j.mp/bR3IrZ
Click the "Share" button on that page and it takes you to a form where you can type in friends' email addresses. In 2010!
Niagara's anti-Toronto ads have huge viral potential, totally botched by parochial only-on-our-lame-website strategy: http://j.mp/9Unz8T
Half-honestly asking, incidentally.
What's the appeal of spitting on the sidewalk? Why do it? Do people spend their indoor time wishing they were outside spitting? Baffled.
@TaddleCreek Oh TC—an its/it's typo in your Twitter feed? I say it's time to update the corrections page.
Caught a matinee screening of "Inception." Tired Twilight-Zone premise in unbelievably arch and pompous drag. Nifty visuals, though.
Album that has aged improbably well: Beck's 'Midnite Vultures' (1999) —cheesy 808 drumkits, 8-bit videogame blips, rock/hip-hop hybrids...
@lisanjutras Re: ye olde hygiene, see this comic from @beatonna: http://j.mp/9eNjhj
@serial_consign ...Or when one light burns out in an xmas tree string and they all go out? Jonestown? Too soon?
@balkissoon Apparently so. Published in 2001, the site says.
Also: one of the poorly drawn soldiers "accused of homosexual conduct" is named "Sergeant Johnson." Heh.
The true value of today's LOL-rich DADT comic (http://j.mp/cCA0pu) is how clearly it illustrates the kafkaesque absurdity of bad laws.
Hogweed infestation is further evidence that The Outdoors doesn't like me very much. Luckily, the feeling is mutual.
@serial_consign Re sentient furniture—I recall Calvin + Hobbes strip: "Every time a lightbulb burnt out it'd be like a death in the family."
@scrawledinwax *rimshot* (bravo)
@ivortossell ...And they didn't put another one on? Hooray.
@meganmcchesney @kattancock I like #contentcamp.
@kattancock @meganmcchesney #vampcamp for Buffy fans. #grampcamp for grandfathers. #ampcamp for electricians. #trampcamp for, er...
Am the only one standing on this Greyhound back to the city. Refund on ticket, though. Subway surfing, but faster, bumpier, swervier.
At parents' place, doing some nostalgia-culling. Found my decade-old African Lion Safari employee card: http://twitpic.com/245851
@chantalbraganza Yes, em dashes are my kryptonite.
@MissStaceyMay "offensive" and "awesome marketing idea" aren't mutually exclusive. I'm not a fan, but they got mad press.
@ivortossell "You @&#!% puppets got no respect for nothin'! You just lie around all day countin' and addin' up letters, and I'm sick of it!"
@balkissoon But what about THIS: http://youtu.be/L-1s9MKDrmU
Curious re: @alteredzones business model (if any?); 14 music blogs collab on 1 site; AP co-op style? Who gets paid? What's Pitchfork's cut?
@emmamwoolley Yeah, I'm planning to do both, Spacing first.
@meganmcchesney @MadPsych @kattancock Yep, It's in my calendar.
@balkissoon @canice ...And the "Cry for everything" video is (I think) SO clearly a satire about the self-indulgence of helpless misery.
@canice Sometimes, but it passes. Gloomy nihilism is one of the (very few, admittedly) first-world luxuries I try not to indulge myself.
The bottomless moral compromise of globalized neoliberalism is #killingme.
An anomalous clanger from the usually tech-savvy Guardian: "Gee, this Clay Shirky guy just might catch on!" http://j.mp/9Cef3h
@kattancock Re Fido/iphone: Yes. bad signals, slow service, etc. Started about a week ago.
Factoid: "By 2015, one third of US army fighting vehicles may be unmanned." http://bit.ly/9QcM4D
@benjaminwrites I haven't read it, but I'll definitely check it out.
3/3: Moral or political stances are based on stated beliefs—not a failure to refute every other infinite possible position.
Political credibility may require it, of course. But their commitment to such credibility is up to groups to decide themselves. [cont]
The calls to "denounce" a clutch of vandals seem oddly McCarthyish. Our basic rights are never contingent on condemning others' actions.
@BarVolo How long until we get to try this Volo-made beer?
@phillipadsmith Oh, definitely; it Just Works very nicely, but only collects analytics for the past 24 hours, which I find kind of odd.
@phillipadsmith I've been using bitly pro for a few weeks (2th.is) and it's still quite bare-bones.
The sound system is an unfortunate weakness of the setup. It's like a rally led by the "Peanuts" teacher.
@MissStaceyMay I look like a square. Always have. Can't fight your nature.
Kid on my right gives me the up and down, obviously thinks I'm a narc...
Little kid on his dad's shoulders, gingerly holding a DSLR as big as his head for a slow 180-degree pan of the crowd.
"Everything is ok" guy is back with new, smaller sign. Or a copycat?
Lonely handwritten cardboard sign at the front of the crowd: "support the police"
@lisanjutras @chantalbraganza I would describe @nerdygirly's response as "curt."
Our office just got a call from the Toronto Police asking for a charitable donation to their kids' sports program. READ THE NEWS
OH THE WINDOWNITY
@NoLore Yeah, I found the widespread sentiment of "Won't somebody please think of the windows!?" kind of offensive, in fact.
@HeatherLeson This is the first I've tweeted all weekend. I've felt speechless and/or baffled for most of it.
Wish CP24's Stephen LeDrew would quit saying "Everyone supports the police." My support is conditional—based on police conduct & judgment.
The lesson of the last 48 hours is that shop windows enjoy greater rights and protection than Canadian citizens.
@joyce_byrne I love Network. But that old-fashioned trailer! Someone should "Shining" it: http://youtu.be/sfout_rgPSA
@joyce_byrne I could not care less what people wear to work. Employer control-freakery over dress codes is just SO 20th century.
@kimpittaway The infamous McChrystal takedown, obvs: http://j.mp/aQ2dKC
@tvo I understand! Have fun Polkaroo-ing. I'll enjoy following along for the 40th...
@emilylandau Hardy har har...
...Not that I don't understand why they would do so. But still — I was enjoying myself.
I would just like it noted that I was doing an excellent job of being @polkaroo on Twitter, before @TVO had the account quashed.
Interviewed design legend Bill Buxton for @uoftmagazine. 400 words, could easily have been 4,000: http://j.mp/ayrMgH
Enjoying my spiffy new "I Survived the Quake!" pin from @spacing: http://twitpic.com/1zdupw
@emmamwoolley Fair enough. The "Haiti perspective," to me, was that #quakeTO was small beans, so count your blessings and laugh.
@emmamwoolley Should we wail and rend our garments because it might, hypothetically, have been tragic? [one more...]
@emmamwoolley But we *are* unaffected. Reaction would have been different if there had been damage, injury, death. [cont]
I didn't feel the #QuakeTO at all. Feeling left out. Fingers crossed for #AftershockTO?
@MissStaceyMay Nothing wrong. But bourgeois is relative. It goes Freegan -> Me -> Home Ownership -> Playing Golf.
@kelkord Quick bougie-anxiety fix: Spend the weekend at a friend's cottage where everyone's talking about buying their first house. Cured!
@kelkord I too suffer bougie-anxiety, but I try to fight it. The creepy politics of "who's-gone-soft/who's-sold-out" is self-defeating.
@mawilson Try Instapaper. A little bookmark that saves stories for later reading. Has an iPhone app, too.
@kimpittaway Re Audio, have you tried @Aviary's online audio program, Myna? Free, record and mix in-browser, free licensed audio clips.
@Poetic_line Yeah, he's a pleasure to interview. Funny and chatty, self deprecating — kept asking if he was 'boring me.'
@Poetic_line Won't be until September. Things take forever in magazine-land...
@ivortossell I have no idea. That's why I'm standing on the sidelines whining instead of writing a book.
Just finished interviewing "Bones" creator (& U of T grad) @harthanson for @uoftmagazine. Chock full'o quotable zingers!
@MissStaceyMay You need to live *every* week like it's shark week. http://j.mp/9oJlZJ
@ivortossell Sure, I just find the axis-of-schtick dynamic to be kind of lame, even if it is unavoidable.
@ivortossell Evgeny review def. worthwhile. But he's also developing a schtick, i.e. "technology is a mixed blessing." Like, duh.
RT @clevack @soundofthecity: Live Stream Of A Bunch Of Cats Listening To The New Devo Record http://bit.ly/c3Yqya
Cottage. Disconnecting for rest of weekend. Promise. I think. http://twitpic.com/1vy2i0
@TaddleCreek Sadly, I will miss your Out Of Town party because I will be, somewhat fittingly, Out Of Town. But I just bought a subscription!
"The line between the world of Starship Troopers and Sarah Palin’s Twitter feed gets thinner every day." http://bit.ly/9R7I47
I have trouble remembering whether I clipped links with Instapaper or Evernote. #firstworldproblems
Last week at #magnet2010 I glibly proclaimed a dawning golden age of web fonts. It's a little more complicated than that: http://j.mp/crsnWg
@anndouglas Thanks Ann, really glad it was useful. May add some updates this week....
@griffithgreene Are the huge herons and the archery related? You're not hunting them for sport, are you?
@BenjaminCormier Also, scroll down to the comments for some amazing "Human Centipede" sitcom ideas.
@BenjaminCormier It was originally accepted as a miniseries by HBO but the author couldn't finish it and wrote the book instead. Sigh.
@BenjaminCormier Disagree. It was frustrating to watch, though, because there was so much amazing wasted material glossed over.
Sweet. @The_AV_Club used my question for their staff Q&A this week! http://j.mp/bTREAE
@anndouglas @kattancock @beniaminov @Marcin_z Thanks for coming!
Also, sorry I blathered on about @dropbox so much. But it's actually legitimately rad.