What’s happening on November 18, 2009.
Right, so one Toronto school totally jumped the gun before the Kindle came to Canada. Private school Blyth Academy, decided to make its students walking theft targets early by equipping them with Sony Readers. The ebooks filled with relevant textbooks open up a new chapter of missed reading excuses.
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Pissed that Facebook’s “unfriend” in now a word in the Oxford dictionary? Besides arguing that it should be “defriend”, you can now just delete your Facebook profile – a move the goes past the uncomfortable data mine of simple deactivation.
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Can’t figure out why more people aren’t cycling in your municipality? Scientific American has a simple answer beyond “stop killing people with your cars”: ask women.
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Remember that disgruntled copy editor who marked up Toronto Star Publisher, John Cruickshank’s we-might-outsource-you memo? Well, the New York Times is way ahead of you. They have a blog that goes through their own grammatical miscues published right on their website.
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We tweeted it last night, but in case you didn’t catch that and you’re okay that people are dying from it, the H1N1 flu shot will be available to anyone who wants it at the ten city flu shot clinics starting at 1 pm today.
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Lastly, it’s time for another OCAD Whodunit. If you need a reminder, that’s the art sale where you buy works that could have been created by someone famous, but are probably made by students. The previews start today at noon at OCAD and on their preview site.[rssbreak]
