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The legions of cyber Romeos and Juliets who are slaves to Craigslist's Missed Connections in the hopes of being wooed by a mystery someone can now declare their insta-infatuation via text message with MobileMoment.ca. The Toronto-based website, which had its soft launch Wednesday, hasn’t seen much action yet, but we’re pretty sure that the ability to gush about The Elevator Hottie or The Cute Cashier to all of Toronto in the hopes of scoring a date will take off quickly with the texting crowd.

The TTC has a new website: MyTTC.ca! It's got a functional trip planner, a stats section with the neat map/video above ("each burst represents a bus departing from the stop in that location"), pages for each route that can be edited by the site's users, more features like SMS/IM integration and an interface designed for smart phones and PDAs coming soon, and is—surprise—not affiliated with the transit organization in any way, shape, or form.

The biggest losers? The spectacularly boring and unbelievably beige 76 Shuter (above, bottom), with only 14.7% of voters saying they loved it, presumably because those 14.7% don't know what love is. The beige-painted, orange-bricked, green-tinted Battery Park didn't do much better, scoring a 15.2%. Perhaps most telling: of the twenty-one nominated buildings, only eight scored higher than 50%, and only four scored higher than 60%.

"City State," writes Toronto Life's Philip Preville in his first post on the magazine's new blog of that name, "will try to take some of the piss out of this town."

In an article in last Saturday's Globe about NOW and Eye's dwindling readerships, Eye's City Editor Edward Keenan told the Globe that "we keep asking, how do we reinvent ourselves? But maybe we should stop trying to be the best of a dying species." Keenan's words felt a bit out of place, coming, as they did, at the end of an article that featured the publishers of both weeklies assuring the Globe that their papers were definitely not on the way out. (Michael Hollett of NOW: "Those numbers freeze a moment in time....but it's just one of many ways of counting. Our boxes are empty and business is good." Peter Burke of Eye: "The sky isn't falling....the industry remains a solid way for advertisers to reach readers and for journalists to serve a meaningful community of readers." )

The Pug Awards are back! Now in their fourth year, the awards name the best and worst new buildings in Toronto, as determined by visitors who choose whether they love or hate the 21 nominees on the Pug Awards' website. In the previous three years, Toronto Police Service 51 Division's building, the National Ballet School, and Gardiner Museum have all been winners, based on percentage of positive votes; Wellington Square, Glen Lake, and—most spectacularly—Be Bloor have all come out as losers.

Quick, what's the one thing you want from Kanye West? A new, spectacular album? No. Perhaps a free concert at Nathan Phillips Square? Wrong again. If you're being completely honest with yourself, what you really want is for Kanye West to start his own travel website. Who the hell needs Expedia anyway? Kanye's site has everything the big boys don't offer, like a low-resolution scan of his latest album's artwork splashed across the top of the page, and...well that's pretty much it for now, but that's something, right? Of course, these days celebrity endorsements are par for the course, regardless of how ineffective they may be.

There's been much debate in recent days over whether or not the TTC should remodel its crumbling, 50s-era "bathroom tile" subway stations (since now they can). A vocal proponent of the renovation plan has been TTC Commissioner and Councillor Sandra Bussin, who thinks that the common masses aren't design-savvy enough to hold an opinion of much weight.

Photo by Thomas Hawk.

Rejoice! Final Fantasy finally has a new version of his website!

The Toronto Public Library is an undeniably important public space in this city. Beyond offering a sanctuary for quiet study and learning, library branches provide after-school programming for youth as well as settlement information and language resources for newcomers. It’s little wonder that this fall, even as he was threatening budget cuts, David Miller remarked: "Our libraries are where people become Torontonians." Striving to remain relevant and innovative, the public library constantly introduces new programs, such as this year’s Museum and Arts Passes, free Wi-Fi access, and downloadable books, movies, and music.

With the sun out, the temperatures high, one can only think of one thing—what's going on in the World of the -ist's?