Extra, Extra: Inside the G20, Inside 311 Toronto, and Inside A Nude Miley Cyrus Photo That Wasn’t

By David Topping

Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.

Photo by John Packman/Colony of Losers. Used with permission.

• This weekend’s must-read: a six-part series on the G20 from Colony of Losers, which follows Jonah Hundert, brother of arrested and silenced protester Alex Hundert, over the summit weekend, and alternates between devastating, absurd, and infuriating. Here are parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Rob Ford, by the way, still has “very little sympathy” for people who were downtown during the G20.
• Not unlike Wired did with New York City a month ago, the Star is breaking down Toronto’s 311 data. Today: where the calls are coming from, by postal code. Sunday: “we break down the numbers into multiple graphs, maps and charts” and “show you where the biggest whiners live [?], what are the most common problems and even what time of day we’re calling.”
• Pity blogger Zack Taylor is the propagator of a fake Miley Cyrus nude photo thing, who had to backtrack when it became obvious that the photo wasn’t of her. Writes Taylor, now: “alleged photos of 18-year-old Disney star Miley Cyrus posing nude in a bathroom leaked onto 4chan.org and other websites, which caused the Internet to go wild!!” Your website, Zack Taylor! They were on your website. [via Gawker]
• Speaking of, kids today have no respect.
• “There is no earthly reason why an engineer would ever design a 14-foot lane for a city block, yet we do it continually. Why? The answer is utterly shameful: Because that is the standard.” From Grist, “Confessions of a recovering engineer.”
• And someone needs to do this, for Toronto, immediately.

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