Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'beefs>'
December 10, 2007
Google has always been known for its clean, lightweight, ad-free search page, but Canada's largest provider of broadband internet is under fire today for messing with it. Toronto-based Rogers has begun testing a controversial technique that allows the media empire to insert its own content into another entity's web page, angering net neutrality proponents. According to a tip passed to L.A.-based technology expert Lauren Weinstein, the system being employed is manufactured by the "in-browser......
Continue Reading "Dr. Frankenweb's Monster"October 3, 2007
With the provincial election upon us, Toronto's Davenport riding is in for a shakeup as a new candidate enters the fray: Lucky, Felis catus siamensis. Presumably asking for a ballot write-in, Lucky's campaign statement outlines a concern with the declining quality of life in Toronto's neighbourhoods, and promises to bring accountability to the riding. "If something stinks, I'll sniff it out," he says. "I'm your best pest control." And why should Torontonians send a cat......
Continue Reading "Claws Out In Davenport Riding"September 6, 2007
It's been a while since we've had a good beef between two rappers (and release date conflicts don't constitute beef, Kanye and Fifty), but here's one that may have some artistic merit: Toronto rapper Seazon claims that American hip-hop star Chamillionaire ("Ridin'") jacked his idea for a music video. According to hip-hop news site SOHH.com, the video for Chamillionaire's "Evening News" (above right) bears striking resemblances to Seazon's video for "The Reporter" (above left).......
Continue Reading "Seazon Catches Chamillionaire Writin' Dirty?"July 14, 2007
White collar theft is relatively unexciting as news stories go, but yesterday's verdict from a Chicago courtroom fosters a special sort of antipathy toward the insufferable Lord and Lady Black of Crossharbour. It's not so much the US$60 million the dark Lord allegedly helped misappropriate, or how calling a CBC journalist a slut isn't particularly appropriate conduct for a Lady of faux nobility—it's that following years of jaw-dropping hubris which left a trail of......
Continue Reading "Black Ice"February 22, 2007
With this morning's surprise snowfall, Toronto pedestrians are once again relegated to nimbly navigating slush-covered sidewalks—an unpredictible process that leaves us carefully weaving through each other like mountain goats passing on a cliff. What really gets our goad, however, is one of winter's notorious peeves: the lazy sidewalk shoveler. Mandated by the City to clear the sidewalk within twelve hours of a snowfall lest they face a $105 fine, the lazy shoveler quickly does......
Continue Reading "Winter Peeve: Lazy Snow Shovellers"