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New York Times on the Life Cycle of a Blog Post

'Diagram of a Blog' op-ed art piece from the April 4, 2007 edition of the New York Times.
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Items they forgot:

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Any Shared Office Space in Toronto?

Animation of Bill Lumbergh from 'Office Space' drinking coffee.

A self-employed friend of mine is looking for shared office space here in Toronto. I expect that demand for such a thing — where people rent out desks with phone and internet connections and shared faciilties rather than an entire office — will increase as a result of technology and the current business environment making it possible.

I pointed my friend to the Centre for Social Innovation, but if you have any suggestions as to where else he can look or know of anyone who wants to share some office space, please post them in the comments!

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“’Cause this is Thril-ler…”

Cats dancing to 'Thriller'.

Oh, great. Now I’ve got the damned song stuck in my head.

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Learn Wifespeak or Suffer the Consequences

A guy in Utah just got a crash course in Wifespeak:

Classfied ad for almost-new motorbike.
Ad courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

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CD/DVD Spindles Make Great Bagel Carriers

Rodrigo Piwonka has come up with a clever idea: using those CD/DVD spindles to carry bagel sandwiches. I’m going to have to try this trick sometime:

Bagel in a CD?DVD spindle
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Cat Milking

This picture is both cute and a little disturbing at the same time:

Photo of cats standing on hind legs with open mouths as a cow milker squirts milk at them

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What if We Taught English the Way We Teach Math?

An excerpt from the article If We Taught English the Way We Teach Mathematics…:

Imagine that your only contact with “English” as a subject was through classes in school. Suppose that those classes, from elementary school right through to high school, amounted to nothing more than reading dictionaries, getting drilled in spelling and formal grammatical construction, and memorizing vast vocabulary lists — you never read a novel, nor a poem; never had contact with anything beyond the pedantic complexity of English spelling and formal grammar, and precise definitions for an endless array of words. You would probably hate the subject.

[via Reddit]