January 2010
27 posts
VICE FASHION - WORK HARD PLAY HARD - Vice Magazine →
I/Je <3 Vice Magazine
(Shipley & Halmos suit, Loden Dager shirt, Original Penguin tie, vintage pocket square from Screaming Mimi’s, Incase iPhone cover (HAS TO HAVE))
McGill Reporter » Blog Archive » Killer worms:... →
The article I wrote for this week’s McGill Reporter!
“Trivia of the Day: Although it is often supposed that octopi is the...”
– AskOxford: What are the plurals of ‘octopus’, ‘hippopotamus’, ‘syllabus’?
Nouvelles: Tragédie de Walkerton : Une percée... →
Ma nouvelle d’aujourd’hui!
News: Walkerton Tragedy: 10 years of research... →
My news item of the day!
“A typical mid-evening programme is a chat show on which the invitees are members...”
– BBC News - Is French flattery of stars just holding on to past?
America's 75 Worst Commutes - The Daily Beast →
If you’ve ever sat stationary on Auckland’s Southern Motorway for 10-15 minutes at a time in the middle of a weekday (or a Saturday), you have to wonder what Americans are moaning about when you see statistics like these:
#1, Hollywood Freeway, Los Angeles
Speed of worst bottleneck when congested: 14 mph (23km/h)
Weekly hours of bottleneck congestion: 686 Worst bottleneck:...
“McGill Word of the Day: pau⋅ci⋅ty /ˈpɔsɪti/
–noun 1. smallness of quantity;...”
News: Retail meat linked to urinary tract... →
My first press release for McGill!
McGill researcher discovers strong evidence of link between eating contaminated chicken and the E. coli that cause urinary tract infection
Nouvelles: Mise en lumière d'un lien probable... →
Mon premier communiqué pour McGill!
Une chercheuse de McGill présente de solides preuves d’un lien entre la consommation de volaille contaminée et la bactérie E. coli, cause d’infections urinaires
'We dead already' - Nova Scotia News -... →
I don’t need to add my own personal commentary to the following…
“We dead,” he said. “We dead already. We ain’t got no food. We ain’t got nothing, not even the water to drink.”
Everyone here is hungry. Some Haitians make a chopping gesture at their necks to indicate they are not eating.
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At a Japanese field hospital set up in tents near the centre...
“You Are Not a Gadget,” is a manifesto against “hive thinking” and “digital...”
– Findings - Jaron Lanier Is Rethinking the Open Nature of the Internet - NYTimes.com
McGill Reporter » Blog Archive » McGill scientists... →
My first ever article for the McGill Reporter! Voici mon premier article pour le McGill Reporter!
First-Person Tetris →
This is an amazing concept! Surprising it has never been done before, considering the hundreds of variations out there.!
TOURTIÈRES AUSTRALIENNES - Australian Pies! →
I am so excited - I LOVE PIES! I can’t wait to go buy some New Zealand (they call them Australian) pies! Pies are one of the things I do actually miss about down there!
WatchMontréal in 1947 as seen by the National Film Board… Montréal en 1947 depuis la perspective de l’Office nationale du film.
It seems to me that plus ça change, plus ça reste la même chose, and I love it that way.
WatchThere’s nothing about Montreal’s history that isn’t somehow fabulously weird.
“Avaricious savers known as “rate tarts” shifted their money into such accounts...”
– Regarding Iceland’s banking scandal - from Buttonwood: Voting away your debts | The Economist
| Tout le monde en parlait | Radio-Canada.ca →
Synthèse très intéressant des 100 ans d’existence du journal montréalais Le Devoir, qui sert aussi d’un certain aperçu des évolutions dans la société francophone d’Amérique du nord à travers cette période.
FT.com / Arts / Design & Architecture - The car... →
Absolutely stunning… the open terraces remind me of the roof of Marseilles’ Cité Radieuse (otherwise known as Corbusier’s Unité d’habitation)… There’s also something distinctly evocative of Sydney - white concrete, unobstructed lines of sight… and maybe a little touch of Sao Paulo too. Absolutely breathtaking! If Florida wasn’t a H8-State I would...
Expo 17 - Accueil →
J’appuie l’initiative Expo 17 ! I support the Expo 17 concept!
Should You Tell A Kid To Lie, If He Didn't Like... →
Christmas spoiled by ungrateful brats? Check out this gratifying research from McGill!
» Bakery revival or when Chinatown’s renewal goes... →
Excellente présentation de la culture culinaire d’un quartier trop souvent absent de mon radar - An excellent culinary review of a part of town I too often forget about.
Expo 67 in One Day →
Tout le monde doit savoir que Expo Lounge, c’est mon blog favori. Et l’article “Expo 67 in One Day” figure parmi les articles les plus intéressants de ce chronique…. je vous invite alors de remonter dans le temps au moment du crescendo du modernisme canadien! Everybody should know that Expo Lounge is my favourite blog. And “Expo 67 in One Day” is one of...