Mayor Rob Ford’s rehab clinic also does cancer detection
The rumour I heard was that they discovered a benign tumour in May.
Rob Ford dropping out of Toronto mayoral race
And Doug apparently running instead.
Love, Grampa and Grandmaster Flash
Facebook autocomplete comedy.
Apple Watch: Asking Why and Saying No
Apple Watch – Features
Inside the Fast-Food Labor Protests
So frustrating. More than half of US fast food workers get public assistance:
<blockquote> <p>American fast-food workers receive almost seven billion dollars a year in public assistance. That’s a direct taxpayer subsidy, the activists argue, for the fast-food industry. Taxpayers are also, by that logic, grossly overpaying the industry’s top management. According to the progressive think tank Demos, fast-food executives’ compensation packages quadrupled, in constant dollars, between 2000 and 2013. They now take home, on average, nearly twenty-four million dollars a year. Their front-line workers’ wages have barely risen in that time, and remain among the worst in U.S. industry. The differential between C.E.O. and worker pay in fast food is higher than in any other domestic economic sector—twelve hundred to one. In construction, by comparison, the differential is ninety-three to one.</p> </blockquote>
RER, UP(X), (D)RL, SmartTrack, W(W/E)LRT: The Frustration of Competing Plans
Definitive Steve Munro post on the nature of various transit schemes and on which lines should actually be built.
Tech, Meet Fashion
On the perhaps-unnecessary new frontier of wearable technology. In which Jony Ive says, “Switzerland is fucked”.
The class war in American politics is over. The rich won.
The Cinematic History of 007: 52 Years of James Bond
My fave: Jerry Orbach as Bond in “Murder, He Killed”
Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft
40 maps that explain the Roman Empire
Bizarre linkbait concept/title for a distinctly non-viral article.
Shomi gives Rogers, Shaw a toehold on Netflix’s turf
Missed this – they finally announced the new streaming service which is strangely limited in possible customers: “it will be available only to Rogers and Shaw Internet or television customers for use on tablets, smartphones, Web browsers, Xbox consoles and cable boxes.” Also, it’s for back catalogue only, no new episodes. While that might be a rights limitation, it seems a missed opportunity to offer something they have that Netflix doesn’t.
What’s behind the Tories’ obsession with Justin Trudeau?
Did Tony die at the end of The Sopranos?: David Chase finally answers the question he wants fans to stop asking
Who did I have this argument with, over the meaning of the ending of Thr Sopranos? Well, I win.
Canadians will be politely sad if Burger King takes over Tim Hortons
Games and Good Enough
Maybe consoles ain’t dead yet.
A new Silent Hill is coming from Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro
It’s time to talk about MDMA
And maybe decriminalize it
How the design firm behind the Xbox built the bike of the future
Slick bike with some good ideas, but a few problems: no chain guard, not sure about that “minimal fender”, and speaking as someone who has a front rack on their bike, they should have put it in the back.
'Terminator Genisys' is actually the name of the next Terminator movie
Apparently SkyNet lacks spell check.
The Remarkable Way Chewbacca Got a Voice
Mostly bear, some walrus.
Someone born today will never have to get a driver's license
Sorry for the link to Forbes, but this is interesting, if a little techno-utopian. It sees driverless cars and car sharing converging in the next decade or so, which of course makes sense, and could make car ownership near-obsolete.
I’ve wondered this about electric cars too – will these emerging improvements to the car forestall its decline relative to active transportation and public transit? Also, how will robot cars react to bikes? Can I get a self-driving bike? Self-driving baby stroller? How about a robot to carry me around in its arms? Or just a human would be fine actually