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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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. […]

Kate was in town from the United Kingdom, paying a visit to some old friends after a couple of weeks of travel. It was a Wednesday night in June; the night before, she’d caught the midnight flight out of Peru, where she’d been hiking and sightseeing on her own. She’d broken up with her boyfriend, […]

The headline above is courtesy of Thursday’s edition of the Globe and Mail. By the way, that’s $6.5 million in public funds, not Conservative party expenses. A Canada Revenue Agency spokesperson said that the purpose of the campaign is to ensure Canadians take full advantage of this year’s available tax measures. But Kevin Gaudet, president […]

Yes, as I mentioned, I’m currently getting over a cold. And yes, as a result, I dropped the ball on my end of the new podcast series that Babylon Telecom was supposed to launch on Wednesday. But I still think it was pretty cold of them to call me out on it. No offense, but […]

Remember Nick Flanagan, whose new album I reviewed for Chart just a couple of weeks ago? Remember how I recommended seeing him live? Well, you can do so tonight at the Silver Dollar in Toronto, where he’ll be hosting a record release party featuring special guests. If you’ve got eight bucks and you’re free tonight, […]

“Dear Minister,” Kate wrote earlier today. “I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for the review of the CRTC ruling on bandwidth caps. I think the CRTC decision takes Canada in a very dangerous, and anti-competitive direction, so I was very happy to hear you had called for a review, and reiterated […]