@lisanjutras ...How do you like them apples?
@lisanjutras I certainly do.
"I approached it with great trepidation and a degree of scepticism, particularly about why we needed a box."
Britain's Channel 4 hopes for "mature, intelligent discussion" about modern sexuality with its new show, "Sex Box": theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…
That's...not funny, @NewYorker: 
I'm at "An Evening with Chris Hedges" at Bloor St. United, which is basically the mirror-universe version of Fordfest.
RT @reeraw: "payment is on an unpaid basis" — a @balonius-discovered line from an indeed.ca job posting #lolz
RT @LauraKusisto: Is this all it would take to get people to stop blocking the left side of the escalator? If only. theatlanticcities.com/design/2013/09…
Weird that Google would arbitrarily name its health spinoff Calico when Calico.com is owned by Oracle. reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whoi…
@anne_theriault Or thinking that we're the first people in history to be moderately disillusioned by adulthood.
Also painfully "Gen Y" is longwinded linkbait condescendingly summarizing self-help too trite for greeting cards: donotlink.com/bkP
@jamescowan Weird
The opening sequence of Star Wars recreated entirely in HTML5/CSS3 (you can edit the text as it scrolls!): codepen.io/TimPietrusky/p…
@Robsonian His eye is on the puggle as as well as on the sparrow, I suppose.
@TheGameSheet There's gotta be a blog or newsletter that only sifts Friday afternoon press releases for damning stuff, right?
@Robsonian At Allan Gardens. It's for St. John Ambulance therapy dogs, so, to be clear, I'm a monster for making fun of it.
@TheGameSheet In this they are sadly mistaken.
@TheGameSheet I think senders must think we've all left already so it's the first thing we'll see in the inbox Monday morning?
Friday 4:30 pm press release: "We would love for you to come out and cover the 'Blessing of the Dogs'..." <close tab>
You can close them! Your browser history has everything right in there, in a tidy little searchable list. Hit ctrl/cmd + Y! Liberate yrself.
I have seen a notable number of people today tweeting about the many, many browser tabs they always have open.
@malcjohnston (Belatedly) I gladly accept responsibility for this. No royalties, unfortunately.
If you doubt that the animated gif is *the* art form of our time, behold! the new Dizzee Rascal video: vimeo.com/73295674
Amazon has built 50 new warehouses since 2010 — more than they built in their first 16 years: theverge.com/2013/8/30/4676…
@nerdygirly Where the stars of MTV's "The Paper" are now: jimromenesko.com/2013/08/29/wha…
Please write a romantic comedy about the Zooey Deschanel lookalike who works in this artisan globemaking studio: vimeo.com/63511505
@navalang @lisanjutras I think I need further explanation.
@lisanjutras Ambivalence is the dark matter of human relations. It's everywhere, far outweighs certainty, but it's damn hard to detect.
@AmandaFactorOMG We aim to please, ma'am.
@AmandaFactorOMG Done: howlonghasrobfordbeenmayor.com
I can't believe I missed the thousand-day mark: howlonghasrobfordbeenmayor.com
Brave new frontiers in ad sales: Quartz adds article annotations sponsored by Citi: qz.com/119200/t/8378
Photo essay proposal: that ledge outside every office bathroom where everyone leaves their day planners and coffee cups.
Plenty to like about the idea, but all else aside, "The Riveter" is a fantastic name for a magazine: jezebel.com/the-riveter-de…
@MissStaceyMay Is such a thing possible? She contains multitudes.
Just 24 hours left to apply to the @CdnBusinessMag internship. Make money by writing about money! Crazy, I know: canadianbusiness.com/business-strat…
@ivortossell My hypocrisy, exposed! But: none of my pull-quotes offered to leap off the page and mail themselves to all my friends.
@ivortossell Not radically different, though. But still. I find the sense that it's been pre-chewed into social-friendly slurry offputting.
@ivortossell It (moderately) intrusively prompts you directly in the text, and implicitly pollutes editorially: >>>"passage worth tweeting"
I admire the impulse to experiment with the tech, but it's rooted in a pretty bleak view of reader intelligence, is what I'm saying I guess.
Like, "Oh, thank god the Times has preloaded a pithy linkbait teaser on my behalf, tweetable in just two clicks. Phew"
I guess there are people out there who tweet links without adding any comment, critique, or context, but I see no reason to encourage them.
A pointless but fun addition to this NYT piece on SNL: highlighted "recommended tweet" passages: 
Awful New York tech bro plans to Henry-Higgins-ify his local homeless guy by teaching him javascript: medium.com/architecting-a…
@gomarkhomer Aha, noted!
@jkdegen @WaxEBuildup Oh, I don't think we've hit bottom yet...
@ronobot @emmamwoolley Yes! The companies appear to believe this is, like, cunning strategy or something, when it's just pure dickishness.
@WaxEBuildup I would argue, however, that this is ever-so-slightly different, since people often use IG as a pic.twitter analogue.
@WaxEBuildup It is, kinda! I'm inconsistent and want others to behave in ways that are convenient to me because I'm a monster.
@WaxEBuildup I don't cross-post, myself, per unlinkyourfeeds.tumblr.com, but others do (that's fine!) and this is a persistent petty annoyance.
@kattancock True, though I think most of us don't care why something doesn't work or who's blocking whom, etc.
And it's predicated on some insane biz-dev's notion that we'll choose one over the other, instead of just blaming them both.
To be treated as a pawn in some petty pageview proxy war between Twitter and Facebook makes the user experience worse on both services.
I know this is old news, but the lack of Instagram embeds in Tweets is a chronic, ongoing minor irritation.
Survey says Canadians are "meh" on Target: theglobeandmail.com/report-on-busi… But @brandcowboy called it months ago: canadianbusiness.com/blogs-and-comm…
Yes, my course on digital publishing starts in just a few short weeks at Ryerson. More details here: cdjn.ca/207
RT @Canadianmags: Graham F. Scott can show you how to do online publishing wherever, whenever... ce-online.ryerson.ca/ce/calendar/de…
It's possible to talk about taking control of your mortality without damning the lives of millions who live with disabilities of all kinds.
Also: Manley's right-to-die rhetoric slips into ableist assumptions that a life lived with impairments is not worth living. Which: gross.
I suppose I believe in everyone's right to control their body and health, even to the point of destroying it. But still. Weirded out.
This post-suicide website of a man who killed himself yesterday is candid, morbid, strange... martinmanleylifeanddeath.com
The astute @richardwarnica pointed out this growing problem for US tech companies two weeks ago: canadianbusiness.com/technology-new…
At that link: "I would strongly recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States."
RT @omarelakkad: Lavabit is an email service apparently used by Edward Snowden. This is what the site's front page looks like today: http:/…
Current on-hold music: rockabilly blues rendition of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
I will shush in movies to my last shush. Someone must speak out for the uptight, the quiet, the reserved, the meek in the audience.
Utterly, infuriatingly, cosmically wrong, but a fun read and an expert bit of trollery: dashes.com/anil/2013/08/s…
I will vote for whichever candidate, in whichever election, promises to ban e-bikes.
Conrad Black haunts the US newspaper biz still: jimromenesko.com/2013/07/31/con… (Actually I quite like the phrase "internet titration".)
@Robsonian @briandstdenis @kelkord Truth. I'm not that into wistful nostalgia, but I am powerless to resist a decent baguette.
"We need to talk about bread as an object of pleasure." nytimes.com/2013/07/31/wor…
The "Lego Architecture Studio" with all-white blocks to construct the chilly modernist hellscape of your dreams: coolhunting.com/design/lego-ar…
@michaelcwheeler "Who am I to judge?" is classic moral cowardice masquerading as principle.
Toronto: tune a radio to FM 88.1. They're playing "Never Gonna Give You Up" continuously until their relaunch three days from now.
You could literally work in the cubicle next to mine—and also pull down MAD STACKS—by interning at @CdnBusinessMag: canadianbusiness.com/business-strat…
Here's an example, a Flipboard magazine about private space exploration, cobbled together from the web: flipboard.com/section/space%…
Flipboard debuts its desktop version today: theverge.com/2013/7/23/4547…
An interesting short doc from Stanford student group She++ about women's experiences in computer science: vimeo.com/63877454
RT @jbenton: On feeling like a code imposter veltman.tumblr.com/post/561328933…
This, to me, is the most lol-worthy moment in the Julian Assange biopic trailer (which is full of them): 
@typeter I don't wear those all the time. They're for around the house. C'mon.
I deactivated my Facebook account. Also, I don't own a TV, don't eat red meat, never saw "Titanic" and wear horse blinders at all times
RT @janlcarter: Canadian citizenship oath to Queen will be challenged in court #cdnimm bit.ly/1ay1OrR
I did *not* know that Omni Magazine was started by Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse: boingboing.net/2013/07/09/who…
Craziest details from that story: they're lobbying to 1) use the phone once a month, & 2) to cap solitary confinement terms at FIVE YEARS
Hey, 30,000 prisoners went on hunger strike in California yesterday: latimes.com/news/local/la-…
RT @theophani: “Murray is indeed the first Brit to win Wimbledon in 77 years unless you think women are people” m.guardian.co.uk/sport/shortcut…
RT @flinnflon: Driver makes an illegal move, hits 6 pedestrians & we're focusing on how walkers don't follow signs. Wow, dudes http://t.co/…
The best part is, the bogus cosmetics were called "Puttana Aziendale," or "corporate whore" in Italian.
Channel 4 (allegedly) tricked "Coronation Street" actors into illegally Tweet-advertising fake beauty products: guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jul…
...and CTW should never have put out press releases about their employees' personal lives: slate.com/blogs/browbeat…
The nature of Bert and Ernie's relationship is frankly no business of their employer, the Children's Television Workshop...
@lisanjutras Avec plaisir. Nice to see you yesterday!
@lisanjutras Of course: canadianbusiness.com/companies-and-…
Don't call it a comeback, @cbc_music, it never went away: 
Like: plane full of reporters tweeting photos of the guy's empty chair & complaining that Aeroflot doesn't serve booze on the SVO-HAV route.
The Snowden story has really reinforced my sense that international espionage is way closer to Graham Greene farce than Tom Clancy thriller.
"In 2010, Google Inc. said it had indexed just 0.004 percent of the information on the Internet." bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-2…
@kattancock @christindal That's true of every program, from philosophy to barber school. I don't think our business is much different.
@kattancock @christindal Some have the chops. Some are tire-kickers. Some just chose a program that sounded fun. People fumble through.