Broken City Lab's iOS app for psychogeographic walks
about the blowout weekend for Avengers - "I'm discarding my old fans so I can concentrate on fame, Euro-trash guy-jewelry and my precious "Air Bud" reboot. But, dude, don't print that!"
my favourite sci-fi author talks about his favourite games, and Civ (one of my faves) figures heavily. Swoon!
somewhat tortured (as the Hulk should be) but I think I agree in general
"having things in common is overrated. Having each other in common is what's rare." (via Best of MeFi)
"Jobs where empathy and "emotional intelligence" can be considered requirements, often personal service and "high touch" interactive positions, have by and large been immune to the creeping mechanization of the workplace. And here's the twist: most of these empathy-driven jobs are performed by women." This is a sci-fi bro movie waiting to happen.
Realosophy argues for taxes that reduce speculation in the condo market. I agree - the measures that Flaherty has taken to reign in the housing market all make it harder for actual people to buy the land they want to live in.
Steve Munro on the possible DRL routes. He doesn't spend a lot of time discussing where it would connect with the Yonge-University line, which I'm curious about, as Metrolinx doesn't seem to want it to go to Union for capacity reasons
