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Monthly Archive for January, 2007
Wiffle Ball Advance Screens for DS People! It says screenshots for WIFFLEBALL ADVANCE!! For the DS!
Newseum See the front page of over 500 newspapers each day! Wowza!
Asian `Loblaws’ set to expand T&T is opening a store on the Toronto waterfront. Via Matt. Previously I wrote about T&T and the Chinese Supermarkets of Toronto
Adventure Time This is quite possibly the greatest thing i’ve seen on the internet - ever. Ever ever ever!
globeandmail.com: The underachievers: Flirting with disaster
These discontented young people go by a raft of names, from underachievers or slackers to such clever labels as â€adultescents,†â€parasitic singles,†â€kidults†or â€kippers†(â€kids in parents’ pockets, eroding retirement savingsâ€). In Britain, the phenomenon has been dubbed Peter Pandemonium for the disquiet it causes to families and society as a whole.
Inventor of instant noodles diesSpeaking of Asian influence on campus culture,
The inventor of instant noodles, Momofuku Ando, has died in Japan, aged 96, of a heart attack. My love of instant noodles has me labelled - for my 20th birthday, a few of my friends gave me a box of 55 different kinds of instant noodle. Best instant noodle: the UFO.
Little Asia on the Hill - New York Times Some say Asian-Americans are being denied spots at top colleges to keep their numbers in check (Asians make up 5 percent of the population; 46% at UC Berkley, 27% at MIT)
Skillz . Rap Up 2006 Skillz with his 2006 Wrap Up: Rap Up 2006. (That is one hot track).
The Myth of Prodigy and Why it Matters Malcolm Gladwell (kinda) on why genius kids don’t grow up to be genius adults - and why we shouldn’t expect them to.
The most amazing—and disappointing—cultural events of 2006. - - Slate Magazine
David Simon, executive producer, The Wire; former metro desk reporter, The Baltimore Sun
In the year past, we’ve been given the clearest indications yet as to the future of the daily newspaper in America. And that future is brutal, reductive, and ever-less relevant.
The Los Angeles Times, which thought itself to be in the highest tier of daily journalism and therefore immune to the economic logic, is told to eviscerate itself, and when chief editors refuse, they are summarily dismissed. The Baltimore Sun is hollowed out by a string of buyouts that began more than a decade ago. The Philadelphia Inquirer is confronted with new ownership that demands a news organization with no pretensions beyond covering its circulation area. In their desperation to float their stock prices, the big newspaper chains are slowly strangling the only thing that still makes their daily editions matter: content.
For years, the Kool-Aid drinkers from the home office have journeyed to newsrooms far and wide to explain to the ink-stained rabble that these were new times, that by attritting the numbers in the newsroom, by offering buyouts to veteran reporters, by reducing the news hole, the American newspaper could not only remain viable economically, but could—given effective management—do more with less.
Here’s a secret: You cannot do more with less. You do less with less. To gather more news, to investigate more wrongs, to analyze more of the complexity of modern life, you need more experienced reporters.
What now passes for journalism outside the vale of New York or Washington, D.C., is largely an embarrassment. Good people still remain in every American newsroom, and some of them are doing their damnedest to make their product essential. But every month, there are less of them, and every month, some soul-sucking whore from atop the pyramid types yet another memo explaining why this newspaper or that no longer needs a Washington correspondent, or a labor reporter, or foreign coverage. Until the industry begins to believe that content—and only content—matters, then there isn’t a power under heaven that can prevent newspapers from meaning less to our world.
The Escapist - Stick and Roll Why the next-gen consoles will make sports games fun again.
Get Rich Slowly » Throw Away your TV and Save a Bundle! When I was growing up, I’d probably watch 6-8 hours of TV each day after school. I was a zombie! Now I’m just addicted to the internet…