August 2007
“Evil web application terrorists are celebrating today, as they’ve now...”
– Nick Booth
Yeah, so they always say don’t kiss and tell, but it looks like you need to worry more about what the kiss means rather than who’s going to be talking about it.
“Graduate school sucks. I have no reason to get a masters, and I’m pretty sure...”
– Liz (Amen Liz, amen.)
Guy Kawasaki gives a list that reminds us that you know you’re old when…
A cute blonde buys you a drink, and she’s your kids’ summer camp counselor.
You have to leave the place where she bought you the drink because the music is too loud for your tinnitus.
You leave by jumping in your filthy minivan.
You stop on the way home to buy baby-bottle liners.
You cancel your babysitter...
Festival Flash: Stars and Celebs →
If the crowds of people, all wielding cameras and markers, that assembled in front of the Intercontinental Hotel in September of last year were any indication, the Toronto International Film Festival can sometimes be about the star power that assembles in our city rather than the wonderful cinema on our screens. So because you’ve all submitted your picks for the festival by now,...
Festival Flash: Hidden Gems →
I’m still working on figuring out my picks for the Toronto International Film Festival, and unlike Matt, I don’t have such rigid criteria when making my choices. That being said, I too will watch anything starring Ellen Page, so at least Matt and I agree on that point. So here we are, about 24 hours before you have to hand in your picks, so it only makes sense I highlight a few movies...
Debbie Newman looks at the amount of ads in major magazines this September, and tells us the (not-so-)shocking news that of Vogue’s 840 pages, 727 are ads. It’s like subscribing to an ad magazine that they occasionally ruin with about 100 pages of editorial content.
“All right-thinking individuals (by which I basically mean Anil Dash and Heather...”
– Clay Shirky on UGC
“This time round, people with imperfect tags are actually going to be of some use...”
– Richard Jones on Audio Fingerprinting
Teenage Stars Galore at FamilyFest 2007 →
I’m giving you the permission to laugh at me before I make my admission: I’m a (small) fan of Disney’s High School Musical. I mean, in a “can’t bear to look away” sense, I promise.
Festival Flash: Big Blockbusters →
In addition to all the movies you can see at TIFF that are never going to make it into wide release on our side of the world, the festival also features some large blockbusters that will be making their premiere here before they settle in megaplexes around the world. While I wouldn’t suggest using all your passes for the Toronto International Film Festival on major Hollywood pictures, there...
Toronto's Slam Scene Goes International →
You’ve been to poetry slams before (or at least, you’ve read about them on blogTO), but you surely haven’t seen anything like the Toronto International Poetry Slam. That is, of course, if you haven’t been to the first four editions of the annual event.
So there’s this post on Filmwad about actors who have spent their entire careers playing the same character, and while I don’t agree with some of the choices, I have to link to it because there’s this amazing photo of Anna Faris in the post. And after watching Faris on Entourage, I’m a new fan of hers.
“If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I...”
– Dorothy Parker, (via)
“Seriously, bloggers, always assume that everyone you know, and everyone you...”
– Phil Ford
Boing Boing just got a new redesign in years. Long overdue, I say, but it’s looking really good. (That’s lots of adspace there though.)
“You have to ask yourself why critics are wary of blogging. It’s not just...”
– Sunny Hundal
Okay, so this is where I admit my ignorance: what’s a network stumbling application? I mean, I’ve heard some great things about AirMoose, but I have no clue what it really does or what I might use it for.
“It doesn’t take much time to maintain (a minute or two total a day, to post...”
– Leo Babauta
Smashing Magazine has a great roundup of 45 of the best blog designs out on the web today, including some of my favorites like Veerle, Jeff Croft, Mezzoblue, SimpleBits, Geniant, Superfluous Banter, and Larissa Meek.
Festival Flash: Short Films →
My favorite film from last year’s TIFF wasn’t an intense Hollywood drama or an independent foreign feature. Instead, it was The Saddest Boy in the World, a short film by Canadian filmmaker Jamie Travis. Sadly, Travis doesn’t have any new films at the Toronto International Film Festival this year, but the lineup of short films playing during the Short Cuts Canada programme at...
“What Apple has done with Keynote, Pages and Numbers is exactly this. With each...”
– David Weiss
Festival Flash: Canadian Films →
Canadian cinema often gets a bad rap, especially within Canada itself. After all, we live in the country that brought the world Meatballs III. Yet, for every Ginger Snaps Back we release, our nation also comes out with notable films such as Exotica and Les Invasions Barbares. The Toronto International Film Festival has always been an important locale for this country’s filmmakers to...
“When speaking with someone whom you have been casually ‘Facebook stalking’, try...”
– Facebook Etiquette Guide
Khoi has created the ultimate way to visualize the NYC transit system on the iPhone. So now someone has to do this with London’s system, and I’ll be happy. (Toronto doesn’t need it, we don’t have enough service to warrant something this intricate.)
You know how I’m always hating on Philadelphia? You know, making fun of their sports teams, saying how it’s my least favorite city in the US, stuff like that? Well, last night, Philadelphia redeemed itself. No more Philly hating for me.
“You can not actually change anything in Wikipedia…you can only add to it....”
– 10 Things You Did Not Know About Wikipedia
Are you a Twitter user? Well, the Grammar Girl has a great little style guide for Twitter users that I hope every single user adopts. I like consistency in language usage.
“We sure as hell weren’t going to use the odious “user-generated...”
– JD Lasica
˙ʇɐɥʇ ǝʞıl ʎzɐɹɔ ɯ,ı ‘ɥɐǝʎ ˙uʍop ǝpısdn ʇsod sıɥʇ ǝdʎʇ oʇ ƃuıoƃ ɯ,ı ‘uɐɔ ı puɐ ʎɐpuns sı ʇı ǝsnɐɔǝq ʇsnɾ
So I’m going through the complete film list for this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, and as is the case every year, I have no clue whatsoever what I’m going to watch. So I need your help.
Do you know of any hidden gems in the film list that I should definitely check out? If you know of any, email me and I’ll give you a shout out and feature your...
Here’s a great little story that proves that you need to love what you’re doing rather than just try and make money.
“Tell a story that makes the audience into the protagonist, then demonstrate how...”
– Merlin Mann
“The really hard part is engineering the change in human behavior that Facebook...”
– Dave McClure
The most kissed girl in the world →
This is perhaps the most fantastic post on MetaFilter in a long long time about l’Inconnue de la Seine. It will make you look at first aid training in a much different way.
WatchEverybody hates it when people knock on your door and try and convert you. Even people that do it themselves.