Though it is otherwise an impeccable publication, Monocle has the *worst* copy-editing I've seen in some time. Typos galore!
Holiday mall fun! Walk around as slowly and aimlessly as possible. Bonus points for stroller-use. Hold hands for double points!
@ivortossell @emmamwoolley Ha — I looked at the current cover lines, but missed both of those. Case: rested.
@clevack — so true, that NOW parody would have been way funnier if they'd just made a mock cover.
@ivortossell ...accompanying stories like "Why your dog wants you to lose weight" and "Libido-boosting tips—from primatologists!"
@ivortossell Gladwell link=thumbs up. But I don't think "Psychology Today" gets to throw stones re bad pseudoscience.
...but seriously, congratulations to @praxistheatre for the hugely-deserved win. Design is industrial-strength at best. Content is king.
I redesigned a website. Later, it won an award. COINCIDENCE? http://bit.ly/8QxVB6
Google Reader's "recommended feeds" for me today are Report on Business and Socialist Project. I'm complicated!
Another month, another wedding. My fourth this fall. Hopefully no funeral? http://twitpic.com/u38ck
For a thing that's supposed to be this beacon of hope and joy, the torch seems to require a *lot* of police protection.
@SarahBHood According to article, it's not only liquid, it's about 120°C. Like a planet-sized pressure cooker...
Factoid 2/2: A planet was just discovered that's almost all water and Ice VII (no land, 15,000 km deep) — http://j.mp/5Cc2gC
Factoid 1/2: There are 14 more types of ice than I knew existed, called "ice II" through "ice XV" — http://j.mp/61ZqqV
@karenkho Nah, don't worry about it, I'm staying in tonight.
RT @RaincoastBooks: Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author: http://bit.ly/4z7WzB
Dear stranger: thanks for giving your elderly dad an iPod touch and then sending him to this coffee shop where I am his only tech support.
@LucaMedina Only got around to watching that Catherine Tate video now. Never realized just how oppressed I am (in the UK, at any rate).
Factoid: at Lakeshore and 29th Street, the elementary school that provided external scenes for Degrassi Jr. High: http://twitpic.com/t8vx0
Mission accomplished: Long Branch! http://twitpic.com/t8r5l
So with breaks for shop-browsing and lunch etc., we now enter Mimico: http://twitpic.com/t8k73
Plus: nifty ice-covered pier: http://twitpic.com/t7mut and INFRASTRUCTURE: http://twitpic.com/t7myz
Also, there is a crazy, "Hoarders"-level junk shop here: http://twitpic.com/t7lf2
So, today we're riding the Queen car for its whole length. Here's the loop at Neville Park: http://twitpic.com/t7kt8
At Carlu opening of "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus." Even for Gilliam, it's a total mess.
AV Club '09 band-names: We Were Promised Jetpacks, Stab Stab Die, Fresh Breath Committee, The Phenomenal Handclap Band... http://j.mp/79GsrO
What's up with other-other new cellphone co., DAVE Wireless? Inscrutable name, ugly, no-fi aesthetic: http://bit.ly/6Mktcr
@ACCheng Why, thank you. As to whether the hat is better than other animal-based headwear, jury's still out. Will let you know tomorrow...
Instinctively held off updating Tweetdeck, but my resolve failed this morning. Should have gone with my gut. This retweet garbage is awful.
@karenkho That's not a stretch. I always look bemused in photos—e.g., your polaroid from #presspass: http://twitpic.com/syeru
@pixiesing Don't have it yet. They're custom made!
@ryanmerkley Congratulations on the new gig! Also: does this have any implications for @precedentmag?
My dubious claim to fame: third place in a Cthulu haiku contest. My prize: a squid hat. http://bit.ly/8j0q8Q
Yikes. E&P Is a loss. RT @bweikle @Slate: Nielsen shuts down Kirkus Reviews and Editor & Publisher http://bit.ly/6mxJPI
@googleanalytics Thanks for the speedy reply! Nope, both FF and Safari display properly.
@googleanalytics FYI: dashboard looks broken for me, running Chrome 4.0.249.30 on Mac. Screenshot: http://twitpic.com/stp9s
@karenkho What about Joan from Clone High? (Easily the best of the MTV cartoons: http://bit.ly/4SKTct)
@timothycomeau Hm, a future like that terrible Mike Judge movie "Idiocracy." I *hated* that movie. Count me out.
@karenkho Sad that dumb school kept you from the party. But now you have 3 dozen cookies all to yourself. Silver lining?
The rare fictional mineral everyone fights over in James Cameron's goofy-looking "Avatar" movie is named "unobtanium." Deep, dude.
Mr. @glen4to himself just knocked on my door, asking me to join the Liberal party so he can get the Toronto centre nomination.
It is 3:30 pm and I am checking my email for the first time all day. Should do this every day.
It's a Very Taddle Creek Christmas at the El Mocambo.
@lbourgon Several people have emailed me that post. Seems I've developed a reputation as an escalator crank. Mixed feelings about that.
@Canadianmags That's just a sign they put up to protect against injury litigation; in my opinion, social reality trumps such nonsense.
The stand-right walk-left escalator rule celebrity-endorsed by @rickmercer. He's on TV—you have to do what he says. http://j.mp/5CppsI
With James Lipton, "patron saint of ass-kissing" back on the cultural radar, an appreciation from the suck.com vaults: http://j.mp/6ZSikp
@typeter Congratulations (?) on the MBA acceptance. Are you planning on taking them up on it?
RT @CraigSilverman: Programmer/journalists making their own study programs: http://bit.ly/7Hi5Vn
@bgillesp But Remains of the Day is ultra-depressing. I was more into the zany hijinks of Jeeves & Wooster.
@UnionSt Yeah, I think the job inreality would be a letdown, but it's a kind of Type-A fantasy: it's your job to organize others' lives.
My odd, years-long fixation on formal Butler training now has a bona fide Canadian angle. Class starts Jan. 11....http://bit.ly/5KcQ95
I cannot wait to eat robot lab-grown pork of the future: http://bit.ly/7hUWh6
@PaulTee Yeah I always enjoy @griffithgreene's tweets of bad PR pitches. We should make an aggregator and make our web 2.0 fortunes.
@PaulTee Does that mean there's a Segway of every province? And do the Segways themselves tour, or do you tour on them? So many questions.
@mgpcoe Fair. But I'm not sure I endorse taking her seriously enough to pretend her "concepts" warrant actual rebuttal.
Useless PR email of the day: "Dispelling Jenny McCarthy's Concepts on Autism"
@nerdygirly Yet another way in which I am nothing like Toronto Hydro.
@matthewkupfer I know, right? I'm not against all neologisms, but "Choicefulness" is so bad.
Messrs. Martin and Moldoveanu of Rotman wish to embiggen and operationalize your cognotions: http://j.mp/58IQcZ
I could be the boss of you. RT @thismagazine: Intern with This! Deadline December 4. Details at http://this.org/intern
At Toronto food and wine expo, the dominant characteristic is " poorly organized."
OMG stand right walk left on escalators.
Discovery Channel CEO calls Oprah Winfrey "a tremendous partner in Oprah." Wha? http://bit.ly/7ltTSO (last graf)
App store whatever, but I like the concept of a "karma leak": http://bit.ly/68z4wQ
@karenkho http://bit.ly/41KZgF
@MissStaceyMay Isn't it "faint" of heart? "Feint of heart" would be kind of like "your cheatin' heart," no? http://bit.ly/3GXgBv
Factoid! Iran is considering locations for a new capital city, because Tehran lies on top of more than 100 faultlines.
@kellikorducki OK. Them's not fightin' words no more.
@kellikorducki Them's fightin' words.
@griffithgreene Millions mourn Cusack's lost mojo. Also appearing in "Hot Tub Time Machine": http://bit.ly/3ecWQS
@coachhousebooks Mildred Pierce!
@pixiesing I do indeed. Gmail never forgets....
@prianka42 I've put you on my list, it says it takes a while to process. Enjoy!
@pixiesing I've put you on the invite list, they apparently don't send them right away, so it could take a few days.
@WaxEBuildup Hard to say. I can't see it being useful until there's a critical mass of users, so right now it's just a baffling curio.
@tiffing Nifty, I've entered your email. There's apparently a lag time, so it could be a few days...
@canice Can do — can you DM your email address?
Anyone want a Google Wave invitation?
@thementalward [...]
@ACCheng re "The Journal of Spurious Correlations" — Did "Psychology Today" change its name?
@kellikorducki The only Twilight-Zone difference is the toilets flush clockwise east of Yonge. You get used to it.
@thementalward I don't agree that the Objective Reality Society exists. What now?
@matthewkupfer Thanks, I had fun. Keep reading
For a day that started pretty rad, things have quickly gone downhill.
@timfalconer Oh trust, me, I owed you a beer before, and now I owe you another. And you can bungle my name on CFAX today.
@timfalconer Gah! Sorry Tim, I'm a radio rookie and I froze in momentary panic!
Spent weekend in Boston. 1-wk transit pass: $15 = $2.14/day. Toronto Metropass: $126 = $4.06/day. 6x pop., 2x cost!
For me, the Berlin Wall is now inextricably linked with Hedwig and the Angry Inch: http://bit.ly/1VRuQl
@typeter Sorry your birthday has been swamped by weird Berlin Wall nostalgia: http://bit.ly/15cBwb
@tiffing Not a problem — glad to watch it in almost realtime for once, thanks for having me! Also: yes, it was one badass episode.
Off to the Toronto Airport-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named to fly to a swanky Boston wedding this weekend. Life is tough.
@kellikorducki @ivortossell I'm not sure it *should* become a moral status symbol — ick — but could it be an option, as in other industries?
@ivortossell Fair point for coffee. But at the moment journalism consumers mostly get their product for *below* the cost of production.
@kellikorducki @ivortossell Fine, har har, it's smug. But it's not a moral band-aid—It's hard cash. Paying what something actually costs.
Stray thought: How to bring the "fair trade" ethic (i.e. coffee) to journalism? i.e., Restore product value by educating about production.
@lisamartin I receive the e-newsletter of the International Guild of Professional Butlers. Seldom hired thru TOStar classifieds...
Where did this war of the morning link roundups come from? Does anyone read these things?
Both XKCD (http://xkcd.com/659/) and Cat and Girl (http://bit.ly/4CRQJd) produced winners today.