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In July 2000, the city average retail price across the United States for unleaded regular gasoline was US$1.59 per gallon.
Around that time, George W. Bush was the Governor of Texas and the presumptive Republican candidate for that year’s presidential election. Here’s an excerpt from an article in the New York Times:
Gov. George W. [...]
Continuing on the idea mentioned in my previous post, here’s another promo for “Toronto the Naughty”:
Original photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
While we might disagree on specifics, I think that Kevin Bracken is on the right track about promoting Toronto’s naughtier side, something which he proposed in the Torontoist article titled Toronto the Naughty and to which I quickly linked in an article titled Kevin Bracken: “You say ‘ecstasy-fueled sex tourist hellhole’ like it’s a bad [...]
To the north of High Park station, it’s practically all houses, apartments and condos, while to the south, there’s its namesake, Accordion City’s largest park. On weekday mornings, it’s only really busy between 7:30 and 8:45, after which it receives a trickle of passengers (relative to the downtown or major suburban stations) until the evening [...]
The folks at Unspace, one of Accordion City’s fine software development shops (and the people behind the upcoming RubyFringe conference), have come up with a site called Complainy, where you can anonymously write a short complaint about anything. Using it is as simple as entering two pieces of info: the thing you’re complaining about, and [...]
Only through the distorted lens of FOX News could you witness the egging of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at a presentation in Budapest and then conclude that Europeans hate prosperity. In the clip below, sock puppets Neil Cavuto and his guest Monica Crowley fail to understand that it’s a hatred for Microsoft’s playing dirty pool [...]
I’ll Be at Search Engine Strategies Toronto 2008
I’ve been granted a media pass to the upcoming Search Engine Strategies Toronto 2008 conference, which takes place here in Accordion City from June 16th to 18th. The media pass will probably give me access to some free snacks in the press lounge, but more importantly, it’ll give [...]
I wish I could take credit for the title of this post, but that has to go to Doug Sheppard, who came up with this gem after reading a Torontoist article by local nightlife crusader Kevin Bracken in which he suggests that in order to boost tourism, Accordion City should promote itself as a capital [...]
Back in high school, after reading Space-Time and Beyond for the umpteenth time and drinking one too many zombies with my friend Henry, we came up with a theory:
In the infinite set of universes, there had to exist a particular universe in which the events in our lives were being watched as a TV show.
We then made a solemn vow to live the kind of life that got high ratings.
This is the continuation of that story.
