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Meet the modders who play GTA 5 as mild-mannered British cops

This one’s for Maggo

The Tortured Mind Of Dan Harmon | GQ

Great profile by Sean O’Neal.

Charity bike ride turns tragic when driver crashes into cyclists

Unbelievable. Am I wrong in wanting to know the name of the driver?

The unrestored version of 2001: A Space Odyssey is Christopher Nolan’s ultimate demo reel for an analog future

I am excited to see this – it’s coming to the TIFF Lightbox.

The political alignments of Mario Kart characters

Greatest video ever?

Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy

Ontario PC candidate resigns after private 407 freeway confirms ‘internal theft’ of data on 60,000 customers

This, with the aforelinked article, should bring you mostly up to speed, other than the fact that 29 PC candidates are implicated in this (clients of Dhillon).

The majesty of this scandal is that the deadline for submitting new candidates was yesterday. So if Ford wants to do the right thing and get rid of these clowns, he will almost certainly lose the election since these are all 905-region candidates that he needs to win. Whereas if he doesn’t get rid of them, he looks more corrupt than any liberal (arguable I guess).

How a convicted fraudster ended up at the centre of Ontario Conservatives’ nomination controversies

This article, from April, is a decent backgrounder for the Doug Ford / 407 scandal


Aka Jimmi Simpson who plays William on Westworld

Ontario election: NDP overtakes Liberals as the ‘Anti-Ford’ party, according to Ipsos poll

I had a feeling this might happen. But now the NDP are going to get a battering from both sides.

“Six months ago, a conservancy official cleaning out an office came across two cardboard boxes that had been sitting around for decades. Inside were 2,924 color slides, pictures made in parks across New York City’s five boroughs late in the summer of 1978. No one had looked at them for 40 years.” (via)