That's from this: theawl.com/2013/05/ask-po…
"As a woman, people are going to ask you to write the kind of insipid shit they would never in a million fucking years ask a man to write."
This is so true: techland.time.com/2013/05/16/the… — I use G+ with a small group of friends and it's actually really good.
We did the math: paying garment workers living wage & improving building safety would add ~$2 to avg. T-shirt prices: canadianbusiness.com/companies-and-…
@ivortossell They don't! They just sit there, bogarting the bamboo and listening to Led Zepplin IV on repeat.
@balkissoon @dtopping @christindal Dunno about the clothes-burning. But reinforcing poverty-stigma to combat size-ism: gross in any context.
Some good, thorough thoughts on the New Yorker's Strongbox service designed to aid whistleblowers: source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/articles…
@dtopping @christindal Yeah, it was too embarrassing, I didn't finish. I shared my opinion on the internet anyway though
This is utterly despicable: youtube.com/watch?v=O95DBx…
@navalang Seriously, though, "BetaState" is a Wm. Gibson novel begging to be written.
@navalang "All we need is some virgin land that we can civilize into our City on a Hill 2.0! <jazzhands>Innovation!</jazzhands>"
This profile of the writer-editor-publisher of The Wrestling Observer is great: nytimes.com/2013/05/15/spo…
Ah, the old robot-buddy-cop trope: io9.com/new-trailer-fo…
"Almost Human, coming to Fox this Fall, is about a robot-hating cop and his new robot partner, who have to learn to get along."
@lisanjutras @balkissoon Ugh, infuriating.
@kattancock Hm. Touché.
@kattancock Yeah, that's my preference too. I think people are quasi-familiar with the sound from reading transliterated Chinese words? (??)
@balkissoon Exactly. Also: "the yooʒ" for "the usual." What if we wanted to shorten "Vision" or "measure"? Eg. "That artist has serious viʒ"
@briandstdenis Everybody's a comedian.
Casual English's lack of a suitable written symbol for the voiced palato-alveolar fricative: I curse thee. I mean, I'd put "tar-ʒay" but...
Spelling out Target's ironical-fancy French pronunciation: tar-JAY, tar-ZHAY, or something else?
@MikeyinYEG The article draws a pretty careful distinction between "aloneness" and "loneliness." Worth reading!
Loneliness "is ranked as high a risk factor for mortality as smoking." newrepublic.com/article/113176…
Playlist idea: "Pop songs with lengthy contextual spoken intros." Exhibit A: The Three Degrees' "Maybe": youtube.com/watch?v=j1GHhD…
@kattancock I believe you mean "pedantry." #boom
TV Sports. 
Postmedia's $9.95 a month paywall vs. Globe's $19.99 says one thing to me: price war
@christindal I've been reading a lot about this lately. Particularly like "Metadata is the new art direction": twitter.com/karenmcgrane/s…
RT @karenmcgrane: Force WordPress to respect your content model and provide author interfaces which support structured content. http://t.co…
Point of the article being that "data" is almost incidental to "electricity"—and the markup/arbitrage opportunities there are much bigger.
The more boring the technology gets, the more interesting the business gets. A data centre REIT: nytimes.com/2013/05/14/tec…
[dubious self-promotional tweet] My jQuery plugin is featured on @unheap today: unheap.com/other/social-r…
@lisanjutras The one with an AXE lying on an upside down BOWLER HAT with GUMMI BEARS in it. Whoa.
@lisanjutras Did you coordinate the scarves, or were you both just wearing them that day?
@aaronleaf In a couple cases I have—reluctantly. Hate doing it for feeds that are charming ~95% of the time, though.
@theophani It's true; one static logo is hard to gauge, too. There will be lots of applications for it eventually...
Like, not to crap on the spirit of lively civic engagement, but this follower doesn't need to know who's speaking minute by minute.
City hall tweeters: I believe you're overestimating our interest in every twitch and jerk of today's meeting.
@theophani We are enemies now
Let's all hate the new 21st Century Fox logo: gawker.com/here-is-twenti…
Google's new custom map-making service is nice, and notably easy to use. Frivolous example: mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=z…
Looks like the MPAA has changed its trailer rating screen typeface to
@H_FJ's Gotham: 
Aside from the whiff of stoner musing ("have you ever *really thought* about hands?") I find this quite relatable: opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/i-a…
I'm not sure words can adequately convey my contempt for the notion of a mayoral proclamation of "Blue and White Day."
@jaredbland NYMag jumps on the anti-Gatsby zeitgeist (top left!): coverjunkie.com/uploads/136783…
Twice in two days I've been passed by a car, windows down, blasting a pan-flute version of "House of the Rising Sun." Vaguely sinister.
(The bit about literally standing there in the print plant demanding more ink saturation, e.g.)
This oral history of the first issue of Wired is so great (mostly for how goddamn analog the whole thing was): wired.com/magazine/2013/…
Just paid my 2012 HST. Buy yourself something nice,
@PWGSC_TPSGC
@ivortossell Why not both! #synergy
A great photo essay that flirts with exploitation (but avoids, I think?) — "The People You Meet at McDonald's": nytimes.com/interactive/20…
4) "closing" an article by clicking top-right "X" dumps you on that article's topic page, not the page you came from.
1) Reporters' Twitter streams deeply integrated into news flow; 2) URL state-changes with no page reloads; 3) mandatory JS, no alternatives.
Some super-interesting stuff to see in the new Reuters design: preview.reuters.com
@mattbraga @Robsonian I think it says so much about the medium's core demographic that two of three characters are middle-aged white dudes.
RT @timfalconer: Well deserved. RT @MagAwards: Stephen Trumper wins NMAF Outstanding Achievement Award wp.me/p1UgCf-Xi
For his 80th birthday, 80 portraits of Willie Nelson: dallasnews.com/entertainment/…
Delightful new frontiers in slang: the vocalized "slash" conjunction: chronicle.com/blogs/linguafr…
@AndrwLvngstn Didn't find it so funny at the time, but home now with glass of whiskey in hand. Tragedy × time + distance = ...
Car rental place. Licence expired! Run to Service Ontario. Stand in line. Renew. Run back to rental place. Rent car. Traffic jam.
@scroll Interesting. Although the timeline seems awfully fast if it's Time Out. Also seems step down to city mag fare; this crew's national.
So all the most important AVClub movie people have gone to "another Chicago-based media company." Which one? avclub.com/articles/an-up…
You don't need 4,000 words of breathless, over-torqued prose to convey the seriousness of alleged fraud that massive.
This is a classic example of a long-form article that would have been better short, clear, and to the point: rollingstone.com/politics/news/…
Outfit highlights: Benazir Bhutto; JonBenet Ramsey; Michael Jackson; Fidel Castro; Saddam Hussein; Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Has everybody seen: sugarbushsquirrel.com — A squirrel dressed up with little dioramas to mark current news events.
Mostly on board with this post about Matter selling out to Medium. As a backer I was irked: policymic.com/articles/37281…
@shawnmicallef @jm_mcgrath There is a good book on this: guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun…
RT @zoewhittall: I wrote a collage/found poem using text from literary reviews men wrote about female authors, w/ pronouns flipped. http://…
Gawker's lawyer compares a Hulk Hogan sex tape to the Pentagon Papers: gawker.com/a-judge-told-u…
Such as a) Spending $2bn/year on content acquisition; b) only 10% of that is original series; c) Canadian market is already profitable...
There are some really interesting tidbits in this Netflix strategy document: files.shareholder.com/downloads/NFLX…
@anne_theriault Not...yet? But toes crossed.
Conclusion: they are commercially coterminous, but narratively distinct.
Grave editorial conversation here about commercial/narrative relationship between Andrew Garfield Spiderman movies & Tobey Maguire ones.
@phan_tastic_ That's too bad, though not super-surprising. Either bandwidth problem, or someone bought the rights...
@mgpcoe ...And the notion that some Twitter-savvy fugitive is triangulating and evading by monitoring hashtags or something is delusional.
@mgpcoe I totally get the cops' frustration—but this is a huge, highly visible operation. If SWAT's in my backyard, I'm justified to say so.
And it's not the job of civilians to pre-vet their observations of the world around them against their imagined prohibitions by police.
There are very good reasons that police don't do their jobs in secret. Especially when they're swarming over whole neighbourhoods.
All this scolding about not publicly sharing "tactical" info about police location, movement, etc. is misplaced.
(You can add ".nyud.net" to the end of any domain name to access the distributed CoralCDN mirror for most URLs.)
(That photo page is getting hit pretty hard. If you can't get through here's an alternate: johanneshirn.photoshelter.com.nyud.net/gallery-image/…)
This four-year-old photo essay on the killed bombing suspect is suddenly an extraordinary document: johanneshirn.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/…
@avril_mcweekend @christindal @Robsonian I got some fun results from "homework wut"
@christindal I'm going to wait a few days so my Teen is less likely to scroll down to Teen-related tweets. Don't want an observer effect!
@m_miric I would imagine! Although it seems like finding them annoying is part of the point? A little daily practice in forebearance...
If you too like that idea, I further recommend this essay on Ryan Trecartin and the ascent of tween culture: nplusonemag.com/on-ryan-trecar…
I genuinely like the idea of #followateen: buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulo…
@emmamwoolley I wear my wizard's robe to work all the time. My business-casual wizard's robe, I mean. The others are for weekends.
Office climate control is sexist, and I made a little paper-doll interactive to prove it to you: canadianbusiness.com/lifestyle/why-…
@sproudfoot cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/250x…
@sproudfoot The two cases aren't that similar, but people exiting, then sanctimoniously concern-trolling the rest of us is beyond lame.
@christindal I would also never tell him he shouldn't go and make a living in a business he believes in! But save us the Kai Nagata lecture.
@christindal I would never dispute that ad-driven publishing is in trouble. But I can do without the post-exit potshots.
Seriously, self-hating media: let's stop fawning over former j-types who decide to kick over the trash can on their way out the door.
Gosh, it's almost as if it's his job to undermine the media his new employer competes with: blog.hubspot.com/why-ive-left-t…
A combo mission to Mars/reality show: latimes.com/news/science/s… (this was pretty much the plot of a failed Fox pilot: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualit…)
News Corp. really should have made its "21st Century Fox" announcement on April Fools' Day: newscorp.com/news/news_558.…
RT @anne_theriault: "There are so many of us on hunger strike that there aren’t enough medical staff to carry out force-feedings" http:/ ...