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“Model housing schemes by Stein and Write… demonstrated and popularized...”
– Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
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“Doors Open Toronto has just wrapped up. If you took a tour, think back on each...”
– Joe Fiorito - Attack on bridge to Fort York an attack on city by suburbs (via bgilliard)
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Beyond geography: Mapping Toronto’s personal... →
In your novel, a character named Lucjan meticulously assembles dozens of unusual maps. Maps of tree roots and wind corridors. A chocolate map. A remorse map. A map of the dead. A secret hope map. Where did this idea come from?
It started very simply…The city has changed so much. Entire eras no longer exist…You go to an intersection and there’s no resemblance to the intersection you...
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Nearly 60 per cent of Americans say they’ll never... →
I don’t know how accurate the statistics are, but really America…?
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My back feels broken
I think I pulled a muscle yesterday at work. So I called in this morning to see if they could replace my shift (to prevent further injury), but of course they couldn’t. So I’m going to work tonight with an already strained back, only to strain it more. My manager said he’d at least try to leave everything in optimal condition, and lessen the amount of lifting I have to do...
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Preacher says he was 5 months off, Judgment Day... →
Ope, here we go again.
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I need a new mattress.
Sleeping on a bad spring mattress topped with a cheap futon mattress is starting to take it’s toll on my back. I’m waking up with weird back aches that weren’t there the day before. Would anyone like to donate their mattress to me? :)
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I AM NEVER DRINKING AGAIN
ever
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Parents keep child's gender secret →
An interesting story about hegemonic gender roles in society—in particular the way people automatically impose gender related stereotypes based on sex. These two parents are challenging them on behalf of their child’s right to choose for themselves. Most people don’t understand the difference between gender and sex. Gender is something much more fluid than sex. It is how...
25 degrees, sunny
and I have the entire day to myself. Suggestions anyone?
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Behavioural sciences study finds Gossip changes... →
To Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern, the experiment illuminates the strong interconnections between the physical and emotional responses in the brain.
“Vision is usually considered to be very bottom-up. We think we see things because they’re out there in the world. But this shows, in a very clear way, that how you feel influences what you think and influences what you see,...
Mayor’s bike plan to feature physically separated... →
Toronto cyclists and motorists will get a first look next month at Mayor Rob Ford’s cycling plan, which will include a long-anticipated network of physically separated cycling lanes, says Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong.
The network would connect separated lanes on Sherbourne, Wellesley, Harbord, Beverly, John and Richmond streets, said Minnan-Wong, who heads Toronto’s Cycling Committee.
Fiscally I'm A Right-Wing Nutjob, But On Social... →
Take finances. It is my opinion that all taxes whatsoever should be abolished, and that everything relating to money in any way should be privatized, including the minting of coinage. Thus, each American should have his own system of currency and his own bank named after him to maintain that currency, and anyone whose personal currency system fails in the unfettered free market should be left to...
I deliberately planned on sleeping in this morning… past 11, at least. I even went to bed really late, staying up to watch mindless late-night television. But of course I woke up at 9 anyways and couldn’t possibly sleep any longer. Over the past few months, I’ve been getting up earlier and earlier, which isn’t at all like me. I’ve never been a morning person....
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danhurray~: “Except for the spats, we really have... →
“Except for the spats, we really have gone back to 1910, if not earlier. The deregulation of business and the starvation of the public sector have returned us to a landscape where irresponsible capital can again roam freely, purchasing legislatures wholesale and trampling on the public interest at will. The Supreme Court has revived the late-nineteenth-century notion that corporations are...
