Mr. Rogers’s Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Kids
Simple but based on deep understanding of academic research about the topic.
The SARS crisis took 44 lives in Canada. Ninety-three pedestrians or cyclists have died on the streets of Toronto since Vision Zero was implemented two years ago. The time for half-measures is over — and the half measures are not working, anyway.
Shortcuts: A New Vision for Siri and iOS Automation
The Siri Shortcuts feature (and the rebirth of the app Workflow as Shortcuts) is the iOS 12 feature I’m most excited about
Trump Showed Kim Jong Un A Fake Movie Trailer Starring The Two Of Them As Heroes
Vice Was Built on a Bluff. What Happens When It Gets Called?
For almost 25 years, Shane Smith’s plan for Vice was that, by the time the suckers caught on, he’d never be stuck owning the company he co-founded.
Rich Intersections
I’m on my lunch, reading this article about Netflix taking over the world and listening to my “Discover Weekly” on Spotify, and it throws up a distinctive-sounding track, so I flip to the band’s bio and read:
ARIWO are a Cuban/Iranian four-piece focused on the rich intersection between electronic music, Afro-Cuban rhythm and Iranian mysticism.
It is an incredible world we live in now, folks. Rich intersections indeed.
The Lifespan of a Lie
The Stanford Prison Experiment was BS
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Electric Scooters
The Beam is Sonos’ ambitious attempt to win the living room
Voice-enabled soundbar, at $399 USD
Rob Ford’s widow sues Doug Ford, alleging he has deprived her and her children of millions
So that’s some news.
Meet the modders who play GTA 5 as mild-mannered British cops
This one’s for Maggo
The Tortured Mind Of Dan Harmon | GQ
Great profile by Sean O’Neal.
Charity bike ride turns tragic when driver crashes into cyclists
Unbelievable. Am I wrong in wanting to know the name of the driver?
The unrestored version of 2001: A Space Odyssey is Christopher Nolan’s ultimate demo reel for an analog future
I am excited to see this – it’s coming to the TIFF Lightbox.
The political alignments of Mario Kart characters
Greatest video ever?
•Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy
Ontario PC candidate resigns after private 407 freeway confirms ‘internal theft’ of data on 60,000 customers
This, with the aforelinked article, should bring you mostly up to speed, other than the fact that 29 PC candidates are implicated in this (clients of Dhillon).
The majesty of this scandal is that the deadline for submitting new candidates was yesterday. So if Ford wants to do the right thing and get rid of these clowns, he will almost certainly lose the election since these are all 905-region candidates that he needs to win. Whereas if he doesn’t get rid of them, he looks more corrupt than any liberal (arguable I guess).
How a convicted fraudster ended up at the centre of Ontario Conservatives’ nomination controversies
This article, from April, is a decent backgrounder for the Doug Ford / 407 scandal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Rk-_4J8q8
Aka Jimmi Simpson who plays William on Westworld
•Ontario election: NDP overtakes Liberals as the ‘Anti-Ford’ party, according to Ipsos poll
I had a feeling this might happen. But now the NDP are going to get a battering from both sides.
“Six months ago, a conservancy official cleaning out an office came across two cardboard boxes that had been sitting around for decades. Inside were 2,924 color slides, pictures made in parks across New York City’s five boroughs late in the summer of 1978. No one had looked at them for 40 years.” (via)
•‘Fox & Friends,’ stuck with Donald Trump for all eternity
Courage is not about the absence of fear or anger or extreme emotion. The definition of courage is, when experiencing those emotions, refusing to let them govern your behaviour. Staying true to yourself and your values, doing what you know is right, and necessary, despite the heightened emotion. Courage is finding it in yourself to rise to an occasion rather than being diminished by it.