For all the nostalgia, it's worth remembering that LIFE magazine was sometimes pretty crappy: http://yfrog.com/0rotcuj
RT @RachelatVenture: Attn Canadian mags, I need your twitter addresses. Please add yourself to this list http://bit.ly/Z4nQ8.
@romioliverio Yeah, in case they're expecting a call from 1986.
Next it'll be fax machines. RT @griffithgreene: @jenny8lee NYPD plunks down $1 million for typewriters. http://bit.ly/mruSu
@griffithgreene Will @the_fbomb and @shamelessmag be friends? Are they already?
Neato interactive music video by Spanish group Labuat: http://soytuaire.labuat.com/ — Calligraphy Hero?
Fifth floor: Repressed WASP uniforms. RT @karenkho @optimuscrimeTO: Banana Republic's Mad Men-inspired collection http://bit.ly/I2oaE
Glad to see Lefty made the cut (http://bit.ly/178Pk8) RT @boyreporter: All your favourite Sesame Street muppets: http://bit.ly/1WNSxY
Obligatory post-cottage sunset pr0n! http://yfrog.com/58py4gj
They have *everything* in the suburbs: http://yfrog.com/5i7p1j
@scrawledinwax I had not seen that. Pretty great. Still: bad karaoke choice.
Pointer: next time you do karaoke, don't perform Radiohead's "Creep." Wrong vibe.
@kelkord Better HBO adapting "Middlesex" than, say, NBC — "The focus groups want the grandma to be zanier!"
@cathybutler I'm talking about millions of doors everywhere.
RT @Mediabistro: Uh oh. The New York Times Asks Readers If They’d Pay For Online Version http://bit.ly/wFcm5
Arg. Why bother having a double door when you *always* keep one half of it locked?
@card79 Why not just leave?
@lisamurphyTO @canadianmags For this.org, Twitter is our #1 referring site right now.
@mgpcoe @catesimpson OK, thought so, but felt out of the loop. Thanks.
Why does one jailbreak an iPhone? What is gained? Honest question.
Do you think maybe the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (currently bombing the Philippines) ever regrets that acronym?
My friend Jill's great bar in the Junction, Margret, got the nod from @nytimes! http://bit.ly/UZoN3
I think it's time to end the hoary trope of "typewriter" as instant visual shorthand for "journalism." It's 2009.
The Beastie Boys have always been *intentional* parodies of themselves, right?
Kind. Duh.
Five iPhones in a pile. It's that lind of party. http://yfrog.com/0936uj
Crazy fact of the day: Muammar al-Gaddafi has a 40-member all-female bodyguard squad. Who must be virgins.
@WaxEBuildup It's not wisdom until you turn a profit with it!
I. Cannot. Wait. for the Palin Family Variety-Time Shit-Show to hit the 2012 presidential trail.
I really love the concept of "imaginary colors": http://bit.ly/12g67O
RT @thismagazine: Work with This! We're looking for an Ad Sales Rep. Details: http://this.org/job
From current @wired: http://bit.ly/HzJ0J — I know Google, Mr. Zuckerberg, and you, sir, are no Google.
I, for one, welcome our insect overlords: http://bit.ly/2GOKl3
@ivortossell Dial D for Doozy?
@mhousley I brushed against something and it's got these weird marks; plus the smearing added by my attempts to dab out said marks...
My shirt has had a pretty bad day — I was just along for the ride.
@mhousley Don't we all.
Rainstorm: I could have ducked into a doorway, or run for it. Ran. Wrong choice. Sopping, like the climactic scene of Hugh Grant movie.
And the 60 straight hours of balcony-rattlingly bad house music starts...now.
...And @xintra nicely obliges with said chapter from "A Massive Swelling": http://bit.ly/J3CKC (buy the book, srsly)
Poor MJ. Read (@xintra) Cintra Wilson's book "A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-examined as a Grotesque, Crippling Disease." Truths therein.
NYT asks what we're all thinking: why does Eddie Murphy still get work? "Fat suit, fat suit, fat suit.": http://bit.ly/K9kMo
OH on street: "He was like, OMG, did you see the Globe and Mail articles on salt? And I was like, We have to stop talking now."
That's a scary headline on at least two levels. "Transformers actor doubles as singer": http://tr.im/pDiQ
Sorry, Sanford was having this affair with a *woman*? What kind of Republican governor is he?
Am I crazy to think that Steve Jobs' liver is none of my business? Leave the man alone.
@card79 Nice. What is it? More importantly, does this mean you're not going to Montreal this weekend to buy SAQ booze?
@MissStaceyMay On my way now...
Off to the @masslbp #masstalk now to see of there's a future for publishing. (fingers crossed!)
Never thought McSweeney's would traffic in such limp fogeyism: http://bit.ly/ZuR1K (h/t @walrusmagazine)
Useless PR email of the day: "Toshiba puts the boom boom pow into back to school." Ugh.
@scrawledinwax Both reviews: amazing. Best nugget IMO, though: "[Bay] famously calls his cinematic technique 'fucking the frame.'"
There's no alarm clock that will get me out of bed faster than radio call-ins with jerks complaining about "greedy unions." yikes.
Alcibiades the jade plant repotted successfully, for those of you in suspense.
Big weekend: repotting my jade plant, Alcibiades.
Global capitalism = new name-brand laser printer for $61. Ours is a civilization on the brink—of SAVINGS
@mhousley Sure you've seen it already, but Ed2010 top banana Corinna blogged it better: http://tr.im/oZbj
@mhousley Ed2010 Summary: Shorter articles, shorter words. Print/online audiences don't overlap. Keep on top of latest tech. Go multimedia.
Off to the Ed2010 online editing panel to hear @bborzyko et al talk shop.
@karenkho Oops, didn't realize there was a song. My computer's muted.
Tomorrow's long-tail marketing hellscape — today! http://baconfreak.com
Knife-wielding gorilla at Calgary zoo: story takes 6 grafs to ask "where the gorilla would get a knife." http://tr.im/oOus
I have been humming an irritating Rufus Wainwright song for about two days and it is slowly killing me. Catchy but evil.
@ivortossell I say no. Request further details/confirmation, I think.
Downgraded to an earlier, non-crappy version of Nambu, and the world makes sense again.
'Slate' refutes scuzzy-soul nostalgia for '70s NYC: http://bit.ly/2yiaz (via @scroll) // "aestheticizing squalor" — à la Slumdog Mnaire.
Bad PR email, (à la @griffithgreene): new UTP book on political shutout of disabled cdns; arrives as one big JPG—useless if blind!
@lisamartin Yep, works on mine. The files open in quicktime.
@lisamartin I have the Olympus WS-311M. Good sound quality, records windows media files, plugs right into USB port.
"Magazine week" is aptly named. Conferences this week, plus print date: Monday! I will finish this week or it will finish me.
Full bouquet of flowers in the garbage can at Davisville station. Someone had a bad night.
After some recent cover misfires, @walrusmagazine scores with whimsical Joost Swarte illustration: http://tr.im/mPZT
har har RT @sarahbarmak: RT @arielito I shot the serif http://bit.ly/qJgVj
Here's to achieving in 2009 what should have been default in 1994! RT @thismason RT @typekit Introducing Typekit: http://bit.ly/11CPKN
@evasalinas archive.org "open source audio" is useful: http://tr.im/mz0F Also, creative commons music at http://jamendo.com
Going to CJF/AIDWC James Lockyer talk at U of T (http://bit.ly/1aNeY), then @cathybutler b-day drinkin'.
I love my job. But if I didn't... RT @thenation: The Nation is looking to hire a full-time web editor. http://bit.ly/M28bN
@sniderm Oh, of course. I'm not planning to cut and run.
Globe website reboot overall a success, but their RSS feeds have gone to hell. "COMPANIES: No description available." Gee thanks.
Two NYT obit headline descriptions today: "razzle-dazzle press agent" and "a pioneer of Yogurt"
@mgpcoe Gah. You had my hopes raised!
A great NYTmag cover shot of Conan O'Brien: http://tr.im/lUD4 — Shame it's a "photomontage."
Pseudoscience! "'Big Five' personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness, stability and extraversion": http://tr.im/lOzY
RT @The_AV_Club: The Wire with a laugh track! http://is.gd/Abjn
Someone, please put Nortel out of its misery. This is pathetic to watch. http://tr.im/laN6
@walrusmagazine The Philadelphia Story. His Girl Friday. It Happened One Night. The Big Carnival. Network. Good Night and Good Luck.
Globe's "Download Decade" thing worth a read just to see the paper's forthcoming website redesign: http://tr.im/l2iN
Headline writers: "stun" puns, "beaming" and "live long and prosper" variations are tired choices for all these 1,000s of star trek reviews.
It's the Globe's loss. RT @ivortossell: News, alas: My Web column for Globe Review has been cut. Tomorrow’s will be the last.
Don't know why Bill Murray & the Wu-Tang Clan came to mind on the walk home, but they did. http://tr.im/kGBy
Broke the 10,000-spam messages mark in Gmail today.
@andrea_r Thanks. Wanted to separate blog & mag content a bit (/magazine is 2nd blog). Also, MU = potential for expansion later.
@timothycomeau Thanks! It's Dreamhost, WPMU, and I did the design, a heavily modified Studiopress theme.
My 12-year old self is offended, and I love it: http://tr.im/ktPM
@pheather Thanks! Yeah, overdosed on Wordpress a bit — going to step back, let it settle, make post-shakedown changes in a bit.
RT @thismagazine:Come and kick the tires on our brand! new! website! http://this.org
@RobNear Poor Stringer Bell. All he wanted was to be a badass CEO.
Tickle in my throat. I think it's THE SARS. Retro!
Looking forward to @J_Goldstein at TINARS tonight, followed by @dandyhorse party.
@scroll We figure one good, genuine, recommendation with caveat is better than the #ff shotgun approach—10 context-free names? Who cares?