Link of the Day: The Strokes
For a very limited time you can download the new Strokes single, “Under Cover of Darkness,” through their website. Sign up for their mailing list, and they’ll send you a download link. Not too shabby!
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Trying and failing to make the “no better than Hitler” thing sound intelligent and justified
I’m coming to the table a few weeks late on this one, but isn’t it just a fancy, ostensibly literate way of calling the other guy Hitler? And really, can’t we do better than that? I actually rather like Glad Hand. It’s a clever strip, and at its best it makes a great point in […]
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NoseDial is “partly a gimmick and partly useful”
What’s NoseDial, you ask? Lifehacker blogger Adam Dachis recently described it as “a simple iPhone dialer that’s optimized for your nose.” Not imaginatively lazy enough, I say! Show me the inventor of an app that lets you dial your phone with your ear so you don’t even have to move it from your face to […]
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Hey, what’s up with Teranga now?
A little while back, I mentioned that Teranga was apparently having some trouble with its landlords. A few days after posting this, I got an email from Brad “Rx” Ketchen, the DJ and promoter who initially put the bug in my ear. Brad confirmed that times are tough and change is in the air. Mark […]
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Link of the Day: Right to Play Canada
“Right to Play is committed to every child’s right to play. We give children a chance to become constructive participants in society, regardless of gender, disability, ethnicity, social background or religion. Through games and sports, we help create social change in communities affected by war, poverty and disease. “A team of top athletes from more […]
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“We invented the notion of a future”
There’s another excerpt from the foreword David Suzuki wrote for Now or Never, the latest from Tim Flannery, that I wanted to share in addition to the one I cited yesterday. I can’t really praise Suzuki’s eloquence without sharing my favourite excerpt from the foreword in question: “It has long been my contention,” Suzuki writes, […]
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Link of the Day: Canadian Organic Growers Toronto Chapter
“Canadian Organic Growers (COG) is a federally incorporated registered charity that has been promoting organic growing for over 30 years. COG’s membership includes consumers, gardeners, retailers, processors and farmers from all regions of Canada.” The mission of the Toronto chapter is to “create awareness of and appreciation for sustainable organic food systems by growing membership […]
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Suzuki on the solution to climate change (and why we ignored it)
If I tend to quote the iconic David Suzuki fairly often, it’s because I think there are few people who can nail a point as effectively and eloquently as he can. Particularly within the world of science, where the vast majority of the writing tends to be pretty dry. For example, take this excerpt from […]
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Creative Writing: Introduction
I’ve recently started taking an introductory creative writing course through the School of Continuing Studies at U of T. I’m a couple of sessions in, with eight more to go, and so far I’ve found it really enlightening. The five hundred words I posted earlier this afternoon were actually my take on our first assignment. […]
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