Minnan-Wong’s conversion to bike advocate is fascinating. Still lots of potential pitfalls including incomplete lanes and the proposed Richmond lane, which I can’t imagine will get built without a big outcry.
want.
not in Canada they ain’t. I love netflix, but a few months in the shallow catalog is starting to feel pretty constraining up here.
oh man
David Mamet is now officially right wing. Contains this gem: ‘When the battery of his hearing aid failed during our lunch, he yanked the earpiece from his ear, looked at it sternly, and said: “F— you.”’
“Around the world there is a growing understanding that suburban sprawl is unsustainable, and that, for cities to survive, they must shrink back in on themselves, tightening up, promoting density and pushing their growing population into space already served by existing infrastructure and social services.”
L.A. Noire comes out tomorrow. I’m ready.
aqua-superman, more like. It sprays water.
in which the author rails against the rhetorical dishonesty of the term ‘gamification’. That’s because points, badges, etc. are external rewards systems (or as Bogost puts it, gestures that provide structure and measure progress), whereas the addictiveness of games comes largely from intrinsic rewards, i.e. enjoyable game mechanics.
“OBL’s grubby lair would have been far more impressive if it had really turned out to be a cave in the mountains, as we’d been conditioned to expect.”
“a journal written in seeds” (via BCL)
damn, son. Hope none of you torrented The Expendables.
(via funkaoshi)
via funkaoshi
prediction from The Mace. (Also note: I am testing some changes to the feeds, so if stuff starts to go wrong, bear with me, k?)
“Conservative principles generally hold that the economy is essentially a beautiful and self-regulating thing, from which only excellent things come, and with which it’s best not to tamper too much artificially. It’s pretty much their version of a vagina.”
Worth a read.
highest in the world for online video viewing, and still going higher. Keep this in mind for usage-based billing debates
pretty sure this is a Tory attempt to demotivate left wing voters
“Doesn’t the Empire take a huge economic loss from the lost productivity of an entire planet?”
Fascinating bit of analysis from John Duffy:
The NDP may be in first place, or pretty darn close to it.
Let me explain. The Nanos research poll, probably the heaviest covered of the campaign, this morning reported national voting intentions of Conservative: 37.8 per cent; NDP: 27.8 per cent; Liberal: 22.9 per cent; BQ: 5.8 per cent; and Green: 4.7 per cent for the period ending April 26. It takes a little arithmetic with this three-day rolling poll, but when you isolate last night’s numbers, you get the NDP in first place with 36.2 per cent; the Conservatives second with 35 per cent; the Liberals with 17.5 per cent, the BQ with 4.4 per cent and Greens with 6.9 per cent.
That’s right. Nanos’s April 26 sample had the NDP in first. This is not definitive; it has a high margin of error; it must be handled with great care. But add to that today’s Forum Research poll, which showed a mere three points separating the Conservatives and the NDP, and it’s pretty clear what is happening. The NDP either has closed, or is close to closing, the gap with the Conservatives.
None of this means that Jack Layton will be our new PM. In fact, as NDP support tends to hurt the Liberals rather than the Tories, there is a risk that a modest NDP surge will hand Harper the majority he has been begging for.
But it certainly does mean we’re having an exciting election, with an uplifting campaign from Layton, desperation from Ignatieff, and delicious fearmongering from Harper and others. At this point I’d expect a bit of a pullback in the NDP surge, with the end result being a Harper minority with the NDP as official opposition, which would most likely spell the end of the road for Ignatieff. But seeing as the weekend will be busy with weddings and hockey and such, who knows.
That all-bets-off feeling sure is fun, isn’t it?
bad scene, Sony, bad scene.