2nd
10:54 am

[PHOTO] Disembarking



12:46 pm

[LINK] "White Until Proven Black: Imagining Race in Hunger Games"



03:44 pm

[LINK] "Captains"



03:57 pm

[REVIEW] On Sita Sings the Blues



08:48 pm

[CAT] "Elements for a Sociology of Lolcats"



09:55 pm

[LINK] Frans de Waal on the ethics of chimpanzee experimentation



11:48 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "In and Of the City: The Cost of Urban Ecology’s Foundational Distinction"



11:59 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On Neil deGrasse Tyson on the risk of asteroid impacts



3rd
09:31 am

[PHOTO] Condos at Radio City



01:37 pm

[CAT] Cat, lounging



03:42 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



11:36 pm

[LINK] "How Facebook ‘Contagion’ Spreads"



11:55 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "A Walking Tour of Toronto"



4th
02:03 am

[PHOTO] Commuting southbound on a Friday night



10:59 am

[BRIEF NOTE] On the HIP 11952 planetary system



05:51 pm

[LINK] "Mayans Demand Voice in "Doomsday Tourism" Boom"



05:56 pm

[LINK] "Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan: Differing Approaches on Aral Sea"



06:00 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Island life coming to Humber?"



5th
04:21 am

[PHOTO] "Downtown Toronto, what it do?"



7th
01:13 am

[PHOTO] Friday traffic



11:59 pm

[FORUM] Is the Internet set to fragment as it grows?



8th
10:55 pm

[PHOTO] Arches of Wallace-Emerson



11:59 pm

[FORUM] What do you think of the Chinese system of government?



9th
12:46 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



03:31 pm

[LINK] "Wreaths, tears mark 95 years since Vimy Ridge battle"



03:35 pm

[LINK] "MacKay aware of F-35s' extra $10B cost"



06:02 pm

[LINK] "The Economic Depression of 'The Hunger Games'"



08:43 pm

[CAT] "Even in the 1870s, humans were obsessed with ridiculous photos of cats"



08:52 pm

[LINK] "Same-Sex Marriage in the Anglosphere"



10:10 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On Earth-like worlds and red dwarfs



10th
12:00 am

[BRIEF NOTE] On the questionable sense of transforming Mercury into a Dyson sphere



09:47 am

[PHOTO] Neighbourhood watch



12:24 pm

[ISL] "Is the Chamorro language dead?"



04:32 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "What is Doug Ford doing for Ward 2?"



08:32 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the Toronto Maple Leafs apology to the hockey fans



11:59 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On the death of Commodore founder Jack Tramiel



11th
01:54 pm

[PHOTO] On how Instagram's good for photography



05:48 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] Geocurrents on language conflict and shift in Siberia



08:08 pm

[LINK] "Humans vs. Robots: Who Should Dominate Space Exploration?"



09:32 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On a "comet massacre" around Fomalhaut



09:46 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On the search for the sun's birthplace



10:27 pm

[LINK] "MP 'Vegas' Brosseau charms in riding"



10:59 pm

[LINK] "Tories may have broken 2011 election rules with US Republican campaigners in Ontario"



11:59 pm

[LINK] "Talking to Teens Who Tweeted Racist Things About The Hunger Games"



12th
11:54 am

[PHOTO] Evening at Christie Pits



04:14 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



05:27 pm

[MUSIC] Judy Garland, "Over the Rainbow"



13th
02:09 am

[PHOTO] Sunday afternoon in the park



08:28 am

[CAT] Shakespeare, not looking terribly thrilled



09:31 am

[CAT] "Is this your cat?"



10:40 pm

[LINK] "From China, With Rock"



10:48 pm

[LINK] "ALMA Reveals Workings of Nearby Planetary System"



11:09 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] Did Viking discover life on Mars?



11:28 pm

[LINK] "Why Nobody Wants an Election But We Could Get One Anyway"



14th
03:31 pm

[PHOTO] Elephant in the park



11:58 pm

[FORUM] What unexpected fun have you encountered recently?



15th
02:11 pm

[PHOTO] Trans March, Yonge Street, 2011



11:57 pm

[FORUM] Is pointedness your preferred way to deal with political issues?



16th
08:46 am

[PHOTO] Magnolia



01:19 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



04:50 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Pride Toronto issues invitation to Rob Ford"



04:56 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Casino good deal for single moms: Mammoliti"



11:39 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] Paul Wells on the 30th anniversary of the Charter



11:59 pm

[DM] "Three demographics-themed links in the blogosphere"



17th
01:08 am

[PHOTO] Cherry blossoms at Dufferin and Dupont



10:07 am

[URBAN NOTE] "Mr. Mayor, where are you?"



02:01 pm

[LINK] "Wildrose renews idea of Alberta ‘firewall’ within Canada"



02:05 pm

[LINK] "Robocalls probe extends to Tory headquarters"



04:32 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Xtra! on Church and Wellsley without the Fetish Fair



10:57 pm

[LINK] "Reading without understanding: baboons can tell real English words from fake ones"



11:43 pm

[ISL] On the economic development debt binge of Madeira



11:59 pm

[DM] On sex selection in Ontario



18th
10:58 am

[PHOTO] Tree and tower



06:30 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Mayor Rob Ford refuses to attend Pride parade"



06:39 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Rob Ford and Pride Toronto"



09:18 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Rob Ford Should Participate in Pride. Period."



19th
01:18 pm

[PHOTO] Into the pit



20th
02:21 pm

[PHOTO] Queen's Park at sunset, looking north



09:20 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links



09:44 pm

[LINK] "Why A Wildrose Win In Alberta Could Be Thorny For Ontario"



09:59 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On Ontario Lacus, Titan, as a seasonal lake



10:44 pm

[LINK] "Closing in on Alpha Centauri"



10:59 pm

[LINK] "Amish on vacation: What happens in Pinecraft stays in Pinecraft"



11:27 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "We finally have more people living in pre-amalgamation Toronto than in 1971"



11:58 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On Canada, Thatcher, and the Commonwealth



21st
05:14 pm

[PHOTO] That was Amore



11:59 pm

[FORUM] What do you know of that seemed like a good idea at the time?



22nd
11:44 pm

[PHOTO] Ryerson University in the evening



23rd
11:01 am

[URBAN NOTE] "Los Angeles vs Toronto: Funding and Building a Transit Network"



12:27 pm

[MUSIC] "Parachute Club's Billy Bryans dies at 63"



03:59 pm

[LINK] "NDP's 'Vegas' MP one year later: She's speaking French and planning to run again"



04:04 pm

[LINK] "Russians move into East Med gas fracas"



09:06 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On the queerness of HAL, artificial intelligence, and Clarke's worlds



10:45 pm

[LINK] Three notes on elections in Canada: Etobicoke Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Alberta



11:59 pm

[LINK] "PCs soar to another majority win in Alberta election surprise"



24th
09:59 am

[PHOTO] "HMV, now only 333 Yonge Street"



11:00 am

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



01:46 pm

[LINK] "Bo Xilai and neo-Maoism in China"



07:08 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] The latest on Proxima Centauri



10:59 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On Planetary Resources and asteroid mining



25th
12:00 am

[LINK] "Manned Space Exploration Is Bullshit"



09:47 am

[PHOTO] "Thank you for coming to Toronto Chinatown"



10:56 am

[URBAN NOTE] On the revived Metrolinx light rail plans



05:09 pm

[LINK] "F-35 a ‘serious strategic mismatch’ for Canada’s North, retired colonel says"



05:15 pm

[LINK] "Harper government appeals Ontario prostitution ruling"



09:20 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Doug Ford: Light rail plans example of 'war on the car'"



10:29 pm

[LINK] "S&P ratings agency puts Ontario on credit watch; Moody's did same last fall"



11:45 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Three notes on the deteriorating TTC-public relationship



26th
02:38 am

[PHOTO] Kraftwerk on Dovercourt



04:13 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "How China’s Oprah Chen Luyu sold Toronto"



06:15 pm

[MUSIC] Gotye, "Somebody That I Used to Know"



27th
12:06 pm

[PHOTO] "Chinese in McCaul Street"



06:06 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Despite a Rough Political Year, Toronto Public Library Usage Is Up"



28th
12:20 pm

[PHOTO] "Under the Dovercourt/Dupont bridge"



07:17 pm

[FORUM] How do you cultivate your hobbies?



30th
09:55 am

[PHOTO] Looking south at Bloor and Dovercourt



12:31 pm

[LINK] "Did English reach New World first?"



03:38 pm

[LINK] "Young Israel's New Love Affair with Germany"



03:43 pm

[LINK] "Building a Business on Churches for Sale"



03:46 pm

[LINK] "The deep strangeness of Israel's national security debate"



08:25 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On homophobia, homosexuality, self-censorship and anxiety



11:04 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On sympathies for the ex-gay movement



11:58 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On Conrad Black and his lost citizenship in Canada



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