Ripped from today’s headlines.
The Los Angeles Police Department stormed the offices of video game developer Robotoki last week with weapons drawn, according to Polygon. The reason? An employee mistakenly used a newly installed panic button, and the police thought a life-sized statue of a Call of Duty character was a real gunman. A picture … Read More
There were two big winners at the 2008 American election: Barack Obama, and Nate Silver. Silver correctly predicted forty-nine out of fifty states, and his website, fivethirtyeight, has since become required reading for political junkies of all stripes. In 2012, he cut through the “too close to call” nonsense spouted … Read More
Pop culture writers have been promoting the idea that 30 is the new 20 ever since the recession hit. They write that your 20s are becoming a kind of limbo and that your 20s are kind of a kiss-off. Entire books have been written about a kind of Peter Pan … Read More
Canada is once again getting the NMA World Edition treatment. Last time, it was because of Vancouver’s embarrassing behaviour after their loss to the Boston Bruins. This time, it’s because of Toronto’s embarrassing mayor, Rob Ford. Most Canadian news agencies are careful to say that Ford was allegedly videotaped smoking … Read More
Just in case you’ve always wanted to spend two months sailing on an icebreaker through the Ross Sea but probably won’t (because, let’s face it, job openings in Antarctica are pretty limited; we checked after that Werner Herzog film), here’s a time-lapse of two months of icebreaking taken from the … Read More
