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Rob Ford’s Office Hired a Hacker to Destroy the Crack Tape

From Vice. Well then – now we have hackers. All we need are aliens and sex crimes.

He admits it.

And another announcement coming shortly?

Rob Ford Gangland Notes Update 427

The Star has a couple good ones: Rob Ford may have paid bills for 15 Windsor Road, the crack house, and a mysterious email gap in Ford’s office in the days after news of the crack tape broke. Also, Ford was encouraged not to attend the police chief’s annual gala. That’s what happens when you dare the police to arrest you, I guess (although wouldn’t that be a nice spot for it?).

The story is back in the international media and figures heavily in US talk show monologues yesterday, although I don’t have video for any of those yet.

UPDATE: here’s a link to The Daily Show’s coverage.

We play with the Steam Machine, Valve's game console of the future

Fascinating look at a Machine prototype. It’s intended to give their existing Steam customers a way to play in the living room, and not (yet) to compete with the PS4 and Xbox.

Rob Ford Spiraling Towards Jail News Update Number 426

So, where were we? When he was tailed by a news helicopter on Friday I thought we were in the climax to Goodfellas and figured he would get busted soon, ideally after a horse chase with the Mounties. But no, he stopped to get a pepperoni stick and pronounced it “hot” and “good”. His executive council held a press conference where they basically said they were worried but wouldn’t say what they were going to do. Then on his radio show sunday he apologized, but not for what you were thinking maybe? Seems like he was apologizing for public drunkenness and distracted driving, but won’t quit drinking, isn’t an alcoholic or a drug addict but won’t say whether he’s ever done drugs, or what was in the packages he exchanged with Lisi in parking lots, forests and gas stations across Etobicoke.

This is why that’s not good enough – but you probably know that.

What happens now? First off, the Lisi ITO still contains some crazy redacted stuff, including the actual transcripts of Lisi’s wiretap and the interviews with the mayor’s staff. And, while the police can’t release the crack video while it’s evidence in a court case, there is another video that could theoretically be shown. Blair has said that Brazen 2 is still ongoing. This matter will hang over Ford and City Hall and indeed Toronto, until Ford is history.

New Plugin Allows Developers to Turn iOS Devices Into Bitcoin Mining Bots

That’s one way to make free work, I guess.

AUDIO: Toronto radio host thinks Rob Ford called in to defend Rob Ford

Probably not Rob Ford but maybe Randy Ford? Tee hee.