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Extra, Extra: Billboard on the Fritz, Toronto on Transit, and The Post‘s on the Lamb
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- Oops. As Andrew Lovett-Barron was out and about with a group of developers, he found himself staring at a billboard at Yonge-Dundas Square—and “the LED billboard between the two Kinect ads went briefly berserk and restarted a few times.” The result: above.
- Mapnificent is a Google Map that takes any address in a number of cities, then shows how far away from that point you can go with public transit in a given number of minutes. See for yourself, and don’t forget to toggle whether you’re okay with cycling.
- “I was the @rebelmayor.” Shawn Micallef takes to Eye to write about the experience of being one of the last year’s best parody Twitter accounts.
- From Toronto Life, “How to deal with the Gardiner Expressway: a history of solutions that have never come to pass.”
- And by the time you read this, Torontoist will hopefully be in the midst of a massive and totally sincere feud on Twitter with the National Post over their new column name, which happens to be the same as our old column name. Follow @torontoist already.
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This article originally said that Lovett-Barron was with developers “all working on building something for Microsoft’s new Kinect platform” when they spotted the Yonge-Dundas Square billboard; depending on who you ask, though, the group had either “nothing to do with Kinect” or “absolutely nothing to do with Kinect.” The mistake was the result of a misread email.