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The Too-Explicit Injustice of Kind Population! is: a) a popular Engrish t-shirt slogan in Tokyo b) a Sufjan Stevens hidden track c) the title of this month's photo blog show at the Whippersnapper Gallery If you guessed "c," many hand claps and cheers! You've just won yourself admission* to the opening reception of this must-see exhibition featuring Toronto's top photo bloggers: Sam Javanrouh, Chris Altorf and Jessica Hayes, Adam Hool, and Rannie Turingan. The...

Every weekday, we pick an image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve!

Whack! Sometime in the 1990s, almost a decade before "inventor of the flashmob" Bill Wasik convinced a few dozen people to stand in a department store in New York, people started organizing massive pillow fights. This fact, among other things, led Newmindspace (myself and Lori Kufner) to declare, "our events are not flashmobs!"

The Raptors took the Cleveland Cavaliers 91-90 last night in a game that saw fresh faces fill in for injured key starters.

We've got an invite to pass along for a launch party, exhibit, and book signing for photographer Geoffrey James' newest effort, Toronto, on Thursday night. James has travelled around the city taking shots of some of the underappreciated places in the city with his wide-angle panoramic camera. Torontoist's favourite local philosopher, Mark Kingwell, provides the introduction.

Torontoist wants to send out congratulations to Matt O'Sullivan of The Narrative Photoblog for taking home the best Canadian Photoblog prize at the 2006 Photobloggies. We also want to congratulate has to go out to Sam Javanrouh. His blog, Daily Dose of Imagery, was voted Best Photoblog of the Year.

Pop quiz: what do Canada and the blogosphere have in common, besides an inferiority complex? It's time to vote! If you're like us, today's trip to the polling station only whet your appetite for democracy, or at least for checking off a name in a decisive manner. Fortunately, you have another chance, as it's time to exercise your will online and vote for your favourite blogs.

- That lumpy lothario Neil Strauss (or, He Who Suggests That He Seduced Britney Spears) is in town to chat about his new book on picking up, at Chapters Festival Hall (or, the Chapters on Richmond and John) tonight.

The folks at newmindspace have been busy. In the last couple of months they've turned Toronto's streets into a giant playground with their games of capture the flag, manhunt and picnics.

Eli Singer, of Singer.TO, signs on to a lifetime of hyperlinks and inspired comments from Billonlogan today, as we launch his weekly feature, Tech Tune-Up. Today, Flickry photographers. Tomorrow, the world:

invention, the duck burger, in favour of some (truly funny) investigative journalism. In today's column he picks up on an unfortunate and unpublicized revamp of the city's park benches. Seems those crafty characters over at city hall are putting ugly railings in the middle of each bench, in an effort to deter sleeping on 'em. And to his credit, Richler comes down firmly on the side of common sense, arguing there are more benches than homeless people (point Jacob Two-Two!), and that people don't tend to share benches with homeless people anyway, so let them have the whole bench.

And tomorrow a show featuring work by both Rannie and Sam, and a handful of other awesome local shootfromthehippers, will open for a five week run at the Toronto Free Gallery. The exhibit is all about "examining Toronto's urban landscape and public spaces as captured by the city's top photobloggers," and there's a launch party on Thursday too.

Where other kids dotted their parents' mantles with piles of softball trophies and best bowler awards, TOist, being about as athletic as a doorknob, never got into the whole awards thing. In fact, we'll cross to the other side of the street to avoid an award ceremony and accompanying drippy speeches, and women 'wearing' things. Luckily, the Bloggies haven't yet booked a night at the Shrine Center. That said, today's the last day to vote in the Oscar's of Blogdom, the Weblog Awards. And TOist extends a hearty congratulations to all of the terrific Canadian nominees, Marmalade.ca, Bacon and Eh's, PhotoJunkie, Accordion Guy and our hometown contributor, Chromewaves. Accordion Guy seems to be the most into the thing - he's gone so far as to make a Bloggie-specific masthead, replete with an angular self-portrait and the kind of tie we thought only grade school band teachers wore. Way to get into the spirit! We like all the sites though, and being acompetitive TOist would like to offer a cookie to all the homegrown nominees. Email us to redeem your prize! You too Daily Dose, and Siteway, and The Narrative! And if you don't like cookies, we will send you an apple instead.