Having an email address that used to belong to a hospital = invitations to "3rd World Congress on Controversies in Urology"

Dig the green roof concept, but the new TTC Sheppard West station looks like some awful Tomorrowland nightmare. http://bit.ly/u9ZU3

@economicwoman Was arguing about origin of the "meme" meme recently. Knew there was some sort of Dawkins connection.

@economicwoman re: memes, can you clarify relationship of "memes" to evolutionary theory? Are memes metaphorically related to genes?

Coffee, muffin, and Google Analytics. It's a routine.

Fire drill! @nerdygirly takes charge: http://twitpic.com/i1s6y

"a lost Britain collaged together from bits of old Ealing comedies" RT @scroll: The Economist explains Toronto to Brits: http://bit.ly/emrFA

@typeter @karenkho @scrawledinwax I have the sneaking suspicion this test was too easy. Also, none of us would survive in the wild.

Got 100%. That's right, I'm a nerd. RT @thismason @helenspitzer Time for a grammar quiz: colons and semi-colons http://j.mp/ZPcDu.

Board games currently optioned for movies: Battleship, Candy Land, Clue (again). Yeesh. http://bit.ly/COxq5

Feel like I've spent all morning unsubscribing from email newsletters. Because I have.

@helenspitzer No, I think *you* have *my* glasses. Nice to meet you in person last night.

At the Search Engine relaunch party, lamenting how poorly journalism pays with @karenkho. Typical journo party, in other words.

Picture a bell curve tapering to zero on each side: X axis = quality of hotel; Y axis = cost of wifi at that hotel.

I just bought this fab silkscreen print (http://twitpic.com/hbkvy) from TO artist Alanna Cavanagh http://bit.ly/hbMbR

@kimpittaway Well, I didn't want to cover their dreary little Danish climate conference anyway, then.

I think you need to unclench a bit, United Nations Media Accreditations Office.

Just used Skype on my iPhone to call Boston. Worked a charm. What a time to be alive!

Pages wake suitably funny, sad, idiosyncratic. I mourn all the books I'll never get to buy there.

I like this article's characterization of the things formerly known as "people" — "Physical spam": http://bit.ly/JSgO7 (ht @Richard_Florida)

RT @chantalbraganza: I was looking for something to COVER the apple, but this totally trumps it. http://bit.ly/ObKSs (via @nboccia)

I think stretch limousines represent a form of class drag. Middle-class clients enacting a parody of wealth.

Beautiful night on Saturday for the Paris Fall Fair demolition derby. At least 4 cars were flying Confederate flags http://twitpic.com/gwpji

Damian Hirst, you used to be cool: http://bit.ly/11bwdu

@lisanjutras In these stories, technology de-links brain & body. Identity crisis results. Also: evil/death/chaos/etc. (Ask @scrawledinwax)

@scrawledinwax Pity this moment seems to exclusively take the form of weak-sauce sci-fi. (Dollhouse, occasionally, excepted) Also: Tron 2?

Trend noticed: pop culture mind/body disconnect anxiety: Dollhouse, Gamer, Avatar, (crap-looking B. Willis vehicle) "Surrogates." Moment?

@MissStaceyMay Did you see what they did to the pool? They flipped the bitch!

@sarahbarmak @lisanjutras I see. I think I shall issue my own. Collect 'em all!

@lisanjutras @sarahbarmak So you're real journalists, then. Who is the issuing body for these magical cards?

Factoid: One woman — Irna Phillips — created alpha-soaps Days of our Lives, As the World Turns, and The Guiding Light. http://bit.ly/10invu

Does anyone actually have a "press card"? Do these things still exist, or did they ever? Sounds like some fascist fantasy object.

Video-game journalism? NYT next-gen infographic simulates driving & texting danger: http://bit.ly/3QU44L

In fact, if someone made this coffee-table book (http://twitpic.com/g0ua1) I would buy it. Get on that, someone.

@lisanjutras Yeah, but there was visual drift over the years & confusion with PC-brand. I think there's a renewed (stern) discipline at work

I love the brutal Soviet aesthetic that No Name is rocking lately: http://twitpic.com/g0juu and http://twitpic.com/g0k5x

Non-sequitur. Anyone remember the XFL? Bizarre millennial single-season football/wrestling hybrid: http://bit.ly/2Ekipj

Full of "Aaah, it's September already" nervous energy.

Remember: Italy = pasta. A really terrible newspaper op-ed illustration: http://bit.ly/10WxgK

Factoid, courtesy @Mediabistro: The New Yorker's new Managing Editor is 26, former fact checker. http://bit.ly/4cs3Zb

@ryanmerkley @masslbp Infinite perfect duplication is an intrinsic quality of digital. Limits are social/legal/economic; not technological.

@masslbp @ryanmerkley IMO, a "limited run" is a function of intellectual property law (thumbs up!), not of digital information in general.

@ryanmerkley @masslbp Yes. Scarcity of physical books is function of library shelf space; digital text not so. I say "book" ≠ "text," is all

@ivortossell You could; our currencies haven't been backed by gold for decades. I merely wish to acknowledge the underlying goofiness of it.

Safely on ground—only 48 hours late!

@ryanmerkley @masslbp 100% Happy to pay for culture, and frequently do. But that's a separate question from costs of distro medium, is all.

Hey, this flight may actually take off this time.

@masslbp @ryanmerkley Functionally, digital copies are unlimited. Artificial scarcity is a (legit!) commercial concern—not an intrinsic one.

@ryanmerkley e-book 'lending' is essentially a collective delusion, where everyone agrees to treat something unlimited as if it were scarce.

Factoid! Quebec keeps a 17 million-litre "strategic reserve" of maple syrup. http://bit.ly/uFaW2

This Saint John dockside graffiti includes some LOLworthy teen angst: http://twitpic.com/f24la

@tiffing I'm being pretty belligerent about it, so I'm not too sure on that point. Enjoy FLA

@mgpcoe The source and lineage of this epic fail really falls outside my sphere of interest at the moment...

WestJet Fail. Flight from YSJ cancelled. Next available: TUESDAY NIGHT. All for one lame little hurricane.

@griffithgreene Semi-colon tattoo: awesome. Caslon or Garamond Pro.

@mgpcoe They certainly do. I'm listening to them right now from the patio of a bar named, apparently unironically, "Cougars."

At "Saint John Idol" finale. Will Paula or Steven win? History will be made tonight.

@darrenodonnell It's like The Office, (UK and US versions) Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development... And years ahead of each.

Ken Finkleman's "The Newsroom" started in 1996; it has not aged a day. Brilliant, hilarious, repulsive, amazing.

Grabbed a couple of burgers and hit the cemetery, pulp mill (http://twitpic.com/eemjg), & reversing falls bridge (http://twitpic.com/eemqy).

@tiffing Aw, thanks. Yeah, I dug it. I mean, it's a slow-burner, so the first episodes are always a bit draggy. Thoughts?

Just shucked my first oyster, successfully. Accompanied by a pre-Mad Men martini. The Roger Sterling special.

RT @boyreporter: RT @mathewkumar: AMC has posted the entire run of The Prisoner online: http://bit.ly/840lC [seems to work in Canada, too!]

"there is a bottleneck of record labels pushing to get their artists into the [Rock Band] games" http://bit.ly/xNxq5

@Jordan_HR Watching Access push Facebook/Twitter/etc. as platforms for their creaky policies would be funnily ironic; instead, sadly ironic.

...and as such a "creator," I find Access Copyright's message unpersuasive, unfocused, and simplistic.

Access Copyright deputizing "creators" for (unpaid!) flackery looks desperate. http://is.gd/2ciXX (via @ivortossell)

Don Draper, daycare teacher. Scroll down to the second-last question. http://bit.ly/KTIOJ

@sarahbarmak Time's 'New Frugality' cover was great, for instance. Generic image, but a great sell, effective message.

@sarahbarmak You can use generic-looking photos, but the cover line better crush it. Like: http://bit.ly/MhzRk

@sarahbarmak Objection is to content, not method. Article about food vs. exercise? Therefore: "I'm on a treadmill, looking at a cupcake."

@MarcoUrsi Sorry to lose you to civilian life, Marco. You did a great job on Masthead in difficult times.

The new 'Time' cover (http://bit.ly/3SHi4k) is even more clip-art-tastic than the famous $30 iStockPhoto one (http://bit.ly/17DZ9Y)

Stink lines: sure sign of a Roveian political mastermind at work. http://twitpic.com/czp73

post-NYC photo: 2 pink gorillas and Cookie Monster jazz-busk under The High Line park, Sat. aft. http://twitpic.com/crki3

Band name? Olive Garden Oedipus Complex: http://bit.ly/SrnPa

Across our accursed border. After five hours. Home!

NY return trip shit-show: 4 hour wait at border: http://yfrog.com/5ibvvj Note that 2 of 4 car lanes are closed. #customsfail

Canada must be empty today, since the entire population is currently in line at this border crossing.

Off to NYC tonight for a jam-packed weekend of cleaning out someone else's storage locker. Also: Bergman brunch! http://bit.ly/Uz2ag

@GutterTalkK9 Pleasure meeting you. Next week would be a good time to chat.

YES RT @AndrewWahl: @Pogue campaign to get mobile carriers to end airtime-hogging voice mail messages: http://bit.ly/Evv7E

RT @clevack why is this article still being written? http://bit.ly/hkJLc

Mixed feelings while reading Michael Pollan's latest 8,000 tut-tutting words about food/TV/self-loathing: http://bit.ly/1Xv0zq

via @jsource: "You Just Graduated From Journalism School. What Were You Thinking?" http://bit.ly/Hyisb

RT @mathewi: @rachelsklar has a great post on the fuss stirred up by that $30 cover photo in Time magazine: http://bit.ly/4BjVCk

Hearing lots of "Chris Anderson's crazy, LOLZ" but not much "He's wrong, here's why." His crime, if any, is restating the obvious.

@ivortossell @sarahbarmak Obviously that blot is two Tibetan monks giving each other high fives. What are you, crazy?

John Cusack, do you need money? Movie looks awful, but great title: "Hot Tub Time Machine" http://bit.ly/lEmQ0

I have Groucho Marx's "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" stuck in my head. http://bit.ly/O1FrW

Crazy factoid, courtesy @wired: 90% of legally blind Americans don't read braille.

Re: GM cologne (http://bit.ly/2t7RUe > @geekigirl et al): you can't make perfume with an insolvent.

@griffithgreene "diffuse, v. Spread or cause to spread over a wide area or among a large number of people." not nec. same as reducing...

@griffithgreene Context? Diffuse as in generalized, or defuse as in calm down?

@clevack For sure. Men.style.com website traffic stats are about the same as the local NBC affiliate in Plattsburgh, NY. Sad.

Condé Nast gets a clue, sets GQ free of dudsite men.style.com. http://bit.ly/C5s9V (Also Details, but who cares)

@UnionSt Finally! I know he has a label to run, but what does Sufjan do with his days? "Music" seems increasingly low on the list.

"The robot is strictly vegetarian." Phew. RT @ivortossell: @mathewi http://bit.ly/113YGh

Ugly things I like anyway: Dundas Square (incl. TOLife Square), The Gardiner.

@ivortossell And? What do you answer? Don't leave us in suspense.