Another startup video that's cheerfully uninterested in how super-depressing its mere existence is: vimeo.com/86388606
A lovely 10-minute documentary about the dwindling craft of Hong Kong's neon sign makers: neonsigns.hk/video/making-o…
Shut up, Trebek. canadianbusiness.com/companies-and-… 
I made a map of all the stores Loblaws has to sell as a condition of buying Shoppers Drug Mart: canadianbusiness.com/companies-and-…
@typeter No comment, for structural reasons.
I believe this is the first sanctioned use of an animated gif in the history of @CdnBusinessMag. BEHOLD: canadianbusiness.com/technology-new…
@86Cdub Gah, I messed those stats up — although the point still stands! I've corrected the post, however. Thanks for pointing it out.
Canadians pay through the nose for hockey tickets: canadianbusiness.com/list-and-ranki… 
@FontSquirrel It's exactly *because* so many sites are going big on fonts—think the pendulum's gotta swing back sometime, is all...
There's beautiful, thoughtful work to be done within the constraints of a standard font stack.
I just don't think forcing users to download ~150 KB of fonts is sustainable strategy in a mobile-friendly context.
I think we are on the cusp of a back-to-the-land moment in web fonts. Designers rediscovering the speed and consistency of system fonts.
@navalang I did!
Work with me! Just over a week left to apply to the (1-year, paid) @CdnBusinessMag Digital Internship: canadianbusiness.com/internship-2/c…
Interesting that Getty offers two share buttons on its image embeds: Twitter and Tumblr. No Facebook: 
@MikePMoffatt Bottom axis options > Tick date frequency > 10 years
Barbie giving that minifig some serious side-eye: canadianbusiness.com/companies-and-… 
omg Outlook: there will *never, ever* be a circumstance in which I hit "Reply" desiring to reply to my own email. Never.
What put this 6-year-old Lovelock interview back into circulation? theguardian.com/theguardian/20… —I've seen it a few places: gawker.com/scientist-sorr…
@ivortossell hope so
Adorable miniature robot rides a tiny fixie: youtube.com/watch?v=mT3vfS…
Another shocking revelation about Canada's lowest-taxed companies is BLUE LOGOS: canadianbusiness.com/blogs-and-comm… 
@theophani Were you at my 1996-themed party, complete with invitation made with circa 1996 markup? gfscott.com/archive/1996/
Of all the TV shows for which the world yearns just one more season, NBC's bold resurrection is: youtube.com/watch?v=xXUjpH…
RT @mattfrehner: Were you ever involved in @CanUniPress? Having a tough time tracking down an alumni list. So I just started one: http://t.…
I knew I wasn't be the only one who gave up after the first paragraph on that Atlantic frat feature: america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/…
It took everything I have not to title this post "Two rolls, one cup": canadianbusiness.com/blogs-and-comm… #timhortonsjournalism
@bborzyko @kattancock Instant endorsement.
@kattancock @bborzyko Cheque's in the mail!
Running out of Tim Hortons stock photos send help
Aaaand there it is: Tim Hortons same-store sales growth down in Canada in Q4: canadianbusiness.com/companies-and-… 
This is the most important number for Tim Hortons this morning: canadianbusiness.com/companies-and-… 
You think you're pretty hot shit and then it turns out the dude perfecting fusion power is named "Omar Hurricane": npr.org/blogs/thetwo-w…
@anne_theriault The Manchurian ANNEdidate
Come work with me for a year (for money!) on @CdnBusinessMag's digital everything: canadianbusiness.com/internship-2/c…
Paywall geeks only: TinyPass buying a hybrid print-digital fulfillment company is a good idea: businesswire.com/news/home/2014…
@chantalbraganza Hey, come say hello at CB! (Just walk south on 11 until you can't anymore.)
"Sesame Street Fighter": spell words to make Muppets beat each other up: flavourmachine.com/sesamefighter/
Get ready to jailbreak your coffeemaker's DRM: canadianbusiness.com/companies-and-…
Who has a Whitesnake hair-do and epitomizes marketing in 2014? This guy: canadianbusiness.com/blogs-and-comm… 
This CBC stream starts with 10 minutes of amusing pre-air chatter (incl Peter Mansbridge humming): m.olympics.cbc.ca//videos/live/v…
This post makes a great point about mobile design that I'd never considered: scotthurff.com/posts/facebook… 
I Learned It Today: The Daily Beast is a union shop: nypost.com/2014/02/07/vac…
@Bill_Miranda Broadcast rights are v. comprehensive & they emphasized digital in the presentation; GameCenter not mentioned by name tho'.
@Bill_Miranda Correct, no regional blackouts. (But you'll need to be a Rogers subscriber for anything not on CBC, of course)
Here's the event floor at Maple Leaf Gardens: 
Smaller but interesting: Rogers will handle all Canadian ad sales for NHL.com.
That's 130 games airing on Saturday nights, across Rogers properties (Sportsnet, City, FX Canada), TVA and CBC.
Rogers says Hockey Night In Canada broadcasts will now, combined, show three times as many games on Saturday nights as before.
Under the new NHL/CBC/Rogers deal, there will be at least 500 hockey games broadcast this season across all networks.
I'm at the NHL/Rogers upfronts for the 2014/2015 hockey season. A few notable tidbits now that the embargo is lifted...
.@Joe_Castaldo and I interned at @CdnBusinessMag at the same time. Now we both work here. COINCIDENCE? canadianbusiness.com/internship
@Scaachi @dsnelles I really want to read that article.
On closer inspection can confirm that the newspaper is "The New York World," which folded in 1931. 
That video has a weird digital self-hatred vibe, too—like it wants to associate Facebook SO BADLY with Polaroids and newspapers & junk
"Lives of Many Don’t Matter?" "Racial Envelope Pushed Over Mexican Stamp"? Sorry Mr. Putin, "President Suvarov" is biting your style.
I love Facebook's fake newspaper headlines in its Paper intro video: 
34% of Canadians say "winning the lottery" is their retirement plan <facepalm> canadianbusiness.com/blogs-and-comm… 
$11 will tie Ontario with Nunavut for the highest minimum wage in Canada: canadianbusiness.com/blogs-and-comm… 
@NOOK_Care Someone has typed my email by mistake into their Nook account and now I get all their purchase receipts. It's weird. Can you fix?
That's from this, which is good: ben-evans.com/benedictevans/…
"Not many magazine people thought of themselves as being in the trucking and light-manufacturing business, but they were."
RT @emilybell: So far @Awl 's take on Ezra Klein is the most refreshing: theawl.com/2014/01/better…
@GFS That's totally fair! Never hurts to ask — appreciate the response.
RT @xintra: 2,266,800 US prisoners in 2013. Criminal Justice System costs $213B/year; $93,965 per inmate. Middle-class disappearance solved…
@jasonguysmiley Kind of a d-bag request, I know, but if you're not using @gfs anymore, could I... have it? My initials! Had to ask.
Thanks for destroying The Captain and Tennille's marriage with your death panels, Comrade Obama: blogs.marketwatch.com/encore/2014/01…
"Warren Buffett is a little bitch" — dude who started a rap lyrics wiki: canadianbusiness.com/blogs-and-comm… 
@jbenton I'd very much like to! Question of juggling commitments more than anything at this point.
@lynngr @ivortossell To my ear, "fan(s)" and "fanboy(s)" are not synonymous. The latter implies a subtly more irrational devotion?
@jeffcbeer Agreed, it is an excellent word, and I think it still has many applications.
Anyway. @NiemanLab fangirls and fanboys, roll call on anyone going to the drinks at Bar Wellington this evening? Waffling.
@MacDonaldMaggie Perhaps! But I think being a geek about something is subtly different from being a "fan" of it...
@timfalconer I think "Fanboy" still has a place, but I do like more universal terms if they're in popular usage.
Style Q: is there a generally accepted gender-neutral alternative to "Fanboy"? (Google shows lots of options, but nothing definitive)
A complete(?), quasi-poetic list of all the named CSS colours. "Whitesmoke", "Cadetblue", "Blanchedalmond": colours.neilorangepeel.com
@asjonish Thanks! I'll check it out.
I've been looking for this, and maybe you have too: a Codecademy-esque course for learning R: datacamp.com/courses/introd…
Globe public editor GETS ACTION: j-source.ca/article/globe-…
@theophani @typeter Never too late to live!
@typeter :( rumorfix.com/2014/01/captai…
@tdotnsa As initials go, "NSA" is pretty badass. I endorse affected middle initials for all.
@tdotnsa mostly I want to know what the S stands for
Web nerds! @CdnBusinessMag is now using @qz's Chartbuilder for charts like this, and it's both good and easy: 
@Henderburn I think there are multiple jokes at work here...
@HazlittMag @CdnBusinessMag YOU HEARD ME
Don't intern for those hippies at @HazlittMag. Come work at @CdnBusinessMag for big *$$$* #FEUD canadianbusiness.com/internship
@jordanclaire @shawnmicallef Requiem, at least...
@shawnmicallef *ba-dump*
Anyway. Get it in writing.
Most amazing fact is that they built the most important type foundry in the world over a 15 year span, without any signed contract. Bananas.
"The most profound treachery and sustained exploitation of friendship, trust and confidence..." scribd.com/doc/200243509/…
As much as I'm sad to hear about the H&FJ font foundry lawsuit, this story is going to make for amazing reading as it all unravels.
There is some good stuff to read in "North," a set of standards for the web-development zeitgeist: github.com/snugug/north
A&E took a "clan of...college-educated, country club Republicans, and repackaged them as the Beverly Hillbillies." washingtonmonthly.com/ten-miles-squa…
RT @pomeranian99: "Night Moves", ur-reality-TV from 80s Toronto. A lone camera films street scenes, with no interaction: http://t.co/MMpUs5…
@navalang It's almost sublime, really.
No wait, a startup video even more idiotic and self-parodic than that JelIy nonsense earlier this week: vimeo.com/68576734
RT @elliott: "There are digital thinkers in our business who seem to have demonized legacy platforms, paper chief among them." http://t.co/…
"Please open your window to the width of this line of text."