I hope that Hillary’s campaign brings all our ’90s Clinton-era fameballs back into orbit, like comets returning: boingboing.net/2014/08/20/mon…
I have an endless appetite for Shirky’s brand of street-preacher media doomsaying, no matter how repetitive it gets: medium.com/@cshirky/last-…
@theophani Oh I know! No snobbery intended — I use plenty of Bootstrappy shortcuts. Just like the turn of phrase, the incidental insult
"The better the company, the less likely it is to use Bootstrap." #burn codingvc.com/which-technolo…
“Giving a shit does not require capital, simply attention and humility and diligence.” medium.com/message/lets-t…
"At first, I welcomed real-people nakedness. It was refreshing and sort of British." gq.com/blogs/the-feed…
Got to collab with @ConcepxStudios on the design of this excellent feature by @Joe_Castaldo : site.canadianbusiness.com/longform/somet…
This Psychology Today cover is a case-study in cover-line writing. Piques curiosity, sells reader benefit. On point. 
The magazine profile of Ryan Seacrest I didn't know I wanted to read until I read it: nymag.com/thecut/2014/08…
Tracing the origins of hitting "X" to close: medium.com/solve-for-x/x-…
RT @saramayeux: one of the more disgraceful uses of the passive voice I've seen in awhile, in the NYT (from nyti.ms/1rfHWxG http://t…
I’ve read a lot of hand-waving blather about BuzzFeed’s $50 million in the last couple days, but this is good: stratechery.com/2014/buzzfeed-…
Charades category: "The demographic that shows up to watch an outdoor Wes Anderson screening at Christie Pits Park."
RT @sternbergh: REBOOT EVERYTHING: vult.re/1sBq9mw
@typeter is this tweet a joke cc @mostlyyalit
[citation needed] 
RT @jeffcbeer: The writer behind Guardians Of The Galaxy @UncannyGirl on making a blockbuster out of a lesser-known Marvel property http://…
RT @choitotheworld: chills four-pins.com/style/what-is-… #alphet
Tree that grows 40 different varieties of fruit through grafting/witchcraft: treeof40fruit.com
RT @karenmcgrane: "Montana’s Trail House is a very bad place—rottenness inherent & cosmetic; culinarily insipid & morally insidious." http…
@tapesonthefloor @deptofhighfives ...Like, the idea of the Google doc that would hold back the tide of bullshit.
@tapesonthefloor @deptofhighfives I remember this so, so clearly. Post-Ford, it honestly strikes me as... touchingly naive?
@mattbraga Cats dream of becoming laptops so we'll stare at and/or stroke them for 12 hours a day. Cat singularity.
@flinnflon We can split 'em, fair and square. Negotiations start now.
@flinnflon WE won all the things. BookThug bundle, Canadian Art subscription & t-shirt, Descant sub, several tote bags...
1. Find good consumer software
2. Build janky, unusable clone of it
3. Call it "enterprise software"
4. Charge $49/user/month
5. PROFIT
It gradually dawned on me today that this is not the "Fancy" you're all talking about: youtube.com/watch?v=ORfoK5…
An exhaustive visual history of the shape of Batman’s ears: static.squarespace.com/static/51b3dc8… (via @broverman)
@karenkho Lies and slander. Who reads the New York Times anyway
"...it is possible that more photos will be taken in the next year or two than were taken on film ever." ben-evans.com/benedictevans/…
RT @lindseywiebe: .@taylorvaisey and @chrisser8r used Google Flight Simulator for a feature on golf's decline. The result is so cool: http:…
@kattancock It's responsive, though!
This feature about Woot.com founder Matt Rutledge’s 2nd act is quite delightful: dmagazine.com/publications/d…
This nicely sums up what ran through my head reading Google’s epic new “Material Design” guidelines yesterday: underconsideration.com/brandnew/archi…
RT @CraigSilverman: "media teams & publishers are awful at ripping out old shitty software even if there’s a promise of something better" h…
@melissakluger @ivortossell For years I have used Transcriva: bartastechnologies.com/products/trans…
Canada: Target, you kind of suck.
Target: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sorry!
canadianbusiness.com/companies-and-…
They are incorrect.
People on the internet think sarcastic quotation marks are, like, the ultimate rhetorical gesture. Eg. Nice "journalism" there, etc.
Strikes me as either a very naive or a very cynical abnegation of curatorial...duty.
Like, an algorithm just happened! We—curators! of this museum!—throw up our hands. Nothing to do with us, the computer does it.
“The [algorithm] lets the curators say they haven’t set an agenda.” Re: a projected timeline of news items about the attacks.
This @Wired piece about the soon-to-open 9/11 museum is good reading: wired.com/2014/05/911-mu… BUT check out this weird curator quote...
RT @idontlikemunday: Congratulations to the gang at @thismagazine & Catherine McIntyre, too, for winning 'Best New Magazine Writer' at the …
I say "um" about a million times in this video, but I actually do believe what I'm saying, honest: youtu.be/UiAwTJazg7k
@Chartcorps Hey, that's great. Got the email, glad it's on the radar! Thanks.
@Chartcorps Confirming password changes by emailing me the new password—in plaintext!—seems...not secure?
RT @timothycomeau: If was still running my Goodreads blog I would link to this idlewords.com/bt14.htm Best thing I’ve read in a while.
RT @karenmcgrane: It is Impossible to Believe How Mindblowing These Amazing New Jobs Are by @ftrain: bit.ly/1k8q4E8
A stark lesson in branding: Americans find “global warming” scarier than “climate change”: canadianbusiness.com/blogs-and-comm… 
@dtopping I read this as "Is Drake eyeing Jilly’s" and thought what would he even do with it.
@journo_dale Pfft, you talk as though I don't know *exactly* what a Cylon transponder looks like.
Please note that I am so ON POINT with the illo for this week's Winners & Losers: canadianbusiness.com/blogs-and-comm… 
Halifax is seriously worried about how many young working-age people are leaving: canadianbusiness.com/economy/young-… 
RT @pomeranian99: "The Snowfall Fallacy", or, what the future of digital journalism looks like: A great Message essay by @craigmod -- https…
Publishing media bubble news: @jamescowan is the new editor of @CdnBusinessMag.
I'm giving an intro to web analytics at #MagNet2014: install, configure, and understand—the basics 101. C'mon down! magnet2014.ca/sessions/?sess…
@mattbraga I think it borders on self-parody, but lol whatever etc.
MIA has made the 2014-iest video of 2014 so far: youtu.be/v9AKH16--VE
@kelkord For sure! The appeal of film critics in flamethrower mode is timeless.
“The Captive” getting brutal reviews: “I’m now open to the idea that Atom Egoyan ... should be put out to pasture.” thedissolve.com/features/postc…
I interviewed nudists about bitcoin because business: canadianbusiness.com/companies-and-… 
The 2014 Anthology of Best American Essays in Which the Author Produces 8,000 Words About Subsisting on Soylent for Three Days
@briandstdenis imgur.com/Ofnf1Sq
What a time to be alive vimeo.com/94376696
RT @jbenton: I am intrigued by the internecine news site warfare behind this tweet twitter.com/bizweekgraphic…
@boyreporter They're always ahead of the curve! But it's time to go mass-market with crazy rainbow disco welding visors.
@kattancock Like those plastic Kanye glasses from a few years ago. Just a stupid fun trend that lasts six weeks. That's enough.
@kattancock I kind of like the Blade Runner dystopia-chic vibe. Not sure it's for *me,* but it'd be fun to see it on the street.
Can't wait for everyone to be wearing one of these this summer: observatory.designobserver.com/robwalker/feat…
A thoughtful reader comment, and a thoughtful response from the author. Sometimes the system works: canadianbusiness.com/blogs-and-comm…
@karenkho It really does! Finally, the validation I so deeply crave.
Exploding whale for mayor
@richardwarnica I kept it in the deck!
Great slice-of-life from inside a high school whose social fabric is shredded by an anonymous messaging app: nymag.com/thecut/2014/04…
@christindal Damn, I thought I'd thoughtfully articulate a unique and unprecedented sentiment by copy-pasting a gif url.
@christindal in the Buzzfeed spirit: raw.githubusercontent.com/jglovier/gifs/…
@navalang Reading is the new Going To The Gym. Do it or don't, but let's not talk about it.
@jamescowan @navalang @lisanjutras For the record, this still counts as self-righteousness for finishing, regardless of like/dislike.
@navalang @lisanjutras Shoe fits, I think.
@shawnmicallef @navalang @lisanjutras I read! I enjoyed! Took me forever! Strenuous effort: worth it! Who cares > heat death of universe
@lisanjutras 3 kinds of people in the world: those self-satisfied at finishing it; self-satisfied for giving up on it; happy people
RT @timothycomeau: Learning Git timothycomeau.info/5477/learning-…
It's the first time in 15 years that Toronto house prices didn't rise in March: canadianbusiness.com/economy/house-… 
@sternbergh After "Under My Bun" and "Eats Of Burden"?
The charming little story behind Windows XP's default desktop wallpaper: canadianbusiness.com/technology-new… 
A few interesting but many more face-palmy things in today's "Core skills for the future of journalism" report: poynter.org/how-tos/journa…
As satire this is far more successful than Mike Judge's toothless "Silicon Valley": youtu.be/ZpKvNPWFrns
RT @theophani: I can’t tell if this is a joke, but, um, I sort of like it: comicneue.com
@AdrienneWong88 @michaelcwheeler @sarahgstanley #cdncult modelviewculture.com/pieces/hashtag…
"We haven't seen yet what a truly bad government is capable of doing with modern information technology." static.pinboard.in/webstock_2014.…
@caroljtoller SHUT UP, COWORKER
An impressive bit of reporting: @PrecedentMag tracks the new jobs of 136 Heenan Blaikie lawyers: lawandstyle.ca/where-are-the-…
@NOOK_Care Someone has entered my email by mistake into their account and now I get all their purchase confirmations. Can you help?
YES "Aronofsky is pretty close to being a great director who's never actually made a great film." theawl.com/2014/03/why-wo…
@tinyalligator I thought that might be the case...
A German term for the pleasurable feeling of anticipating a Hollywood blockbuster's commercial failure.
I know we're all excited, but let's not directly equate "unpaid intern" to "slave."
@wornjournal Have you seen this music project made up of only sampled sounds made by clothing? facesofn.com