I spoke to Zuimei last night about getting out of Tokyo. To close the bar for two weeks and take his parents to Beijing or Hawaii. He noted there are no flights to be had; most of the flights out of Tokyo are booked. I asked if he needed food …
I just came across some fascinating maps on Business Insider Detroit: Everyone is black in the city, and everyone is white in the suburbs Note: Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, and Orange is Hispanic, and each dot is 25 people. Image: Eric Fischer on flickr
The EU announced that starting May 25th explicit consent must be gathered from web users who are being tracked via cookie. Obviously the biggest impact is to online advertisers (who I care very little for) who use euphemist terms like “interest based advertising” to hide the fact they would happily crawl through …
Zuimei is okay, his bar survived the 8.9 Richter earthquake which has devastated parts of Japan. I am obviously relieved. It could have been much worse. If the earthquake had happened farther south Tokyo would have been rocked even harder. This video makes me a little nauseas even though that is exactly …
Dame Judi Dench and Daniel Craig are part of this incredible public service announcement about gender equality and www.weareequals.org I all I can say is Kudos to both of them. Very poignant and very well done.
Having done the Becel ride for heart numerous times, including riding as a team captain I have some tips which new riders may find helpful. And will help to ensure their day is a success. The subway does not run that early. I lived at Yonge and Finch and had …