Hold the pickles, hold the..............................................
Having trouble grasping net neutrality? It is a complex subject, as we have already discussed (previously x 49). Well, fear not: Burger King, of all places, explains it. (SLAdWeek)
View ArticleEmbattled Ontario Premier Doug Ford makes history, notwithstanding
Most of MetaFilter has had little political news from Toronto since its, er, colourful mayor Rob Ford (previously) declined to run for re-election due to ill health before passing away at age 46. But...
View ArticleIrony appearing in the wild in its purest form
A man threatened to sue a technology magazine for using his image in a story (previously on the blue) about why all hipsters look the same, only to find out the picture was of a completely different...
View ArticleRemake it so.
Remake My Day is a nice data visualization that compares the critical reception, gap between critical and audience response, and relative profitability of a host of Hollywood remakes and their...
View ArticleNever gonna flarb frum glotch, ruckle stom lusk sunt rulk
In the last year on the blue we have seen neural nets name kittens, auth some lyric poetry, send us troubling holiday greetings, and produce some dubious recipes. Can one generate more of Rick Astley?
View ArticleAn eighth(-ish) live action Star Trek series is in the works
CBS All Access today announced a series order for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, based on the years Captain Christopher Pike manned the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise. The series is a spinoff from Star...
View ArticleWe Call Them Cylons
Board game writer Dan Thurot offers a meditation on identity, 9/11, H.P. Lovecraft, and several board game adaptations that deal with these.
View ArticleAll hail the queen
An unemployed real estate agent from Victoria, British Columbia is now officially Queen of the Earth. She has her own RV.
View ArticlePerhaps this was inevitable.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who famously spent eighteen years living in Charles de Gaulle airport before leaving in 2006, died of a heart attack last Saturday... at Charles de Gaulle airport.
View ArticleHappy 40m!
Statistics Canada has a page where they extrapolate from census data, births, deaths, immigration, etc. and smooth it out to estimate the exact population of the country at any moment. The country...
View Article
