Torontoist » Geek http://torontoist.com Torontoist is about Toronto and everything that happens in it Sun, 27 May 2012 03:02:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In Like A Lion, Out Like A Lamb: The O.C. Takes A Bow

It was curtains in Orange County last night as FOX’s golden child threw its final punch. After four years in The O.C., creator Josh Schwartz has taught us that money can’t buy happiness, but it sure does buy a Range Rover full of jaw-dropping plot twists. At a time when television was dominated by Who [...]

]]> http://torontoist.com/2007/02/in_like_a_lion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in_like_a_lion Nerd Alert: Little Geeks Need Old Computers

MIT’s Media Laboratory is getting a lot of press these days with their One Laptop Per Child research program that hopes to revolutionize the Third World with $100 laptops in schools. While Canada boasts being one of the world’s leading wired nations, there are still many underprivileged kids in Toronto who don’t have easy access [...]

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God, we’re so sick of Snakes on a Plane that we want to kill anyone and everyone that makes a “something on a something” joke. But then we realized that there was no way we could ever win this fight, and, hell, if you can’t beat them, we might as well join them. And with [...]

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