RYAN EDWARD MILLER

September 3rd, 2010

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Friday.

September 3rd, 2010

[A]t least one iPad in the Toronto Eaton Centre Apple Store now has ryanedwardmiller.com as its home page.

My friend G., doing his part.

September 3rd, 2010

Apparently:

The BC Liberal government adopted the HST despite warnings of a five-year negative impact on the economy.
The National Post’s Kelly McParland has a beef with Margaret Atwood.
Facebook is beta-testing a huge new feature; soon you can ~~stalk~~ subscribe to specific friends.
Luongo’s contract could be void.
Breaking Dawn’s graphic vampire C-section will indeed be in the film.
Apple is hiding Lady Gaga’s Prop 8 tweets.
Stereogum has listed the 40 best new bands of 2010.
Eagle vs. salmon.
Near Battle Mountain, Nevada lies evidence that the Earth’s magnetic field once went haywire.
Is 4chan turning into a force for good?
Holt Renfrew is investing in its own image makeover; store is hiring greeters.

September 2nd, 2010

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"Sample and Hold" (5:47)

Matt Mays

Borrowed Tunes II: A Tribute to Neil Young (2009)

Matt Mays’ “Sample and Hold” is a Neil Young cover (from Young’s 1982 Trans album), and carries forward Young’s prominent use of a vocoder. An obscure Mays track, for sure, but with some really nice guitar work.

September 2nd, 2010

Whoever at Curbed decided the actual address and floor plan was necessary to get those page views, I hope they die in a fire.

Rachel Maddow, who isn’t happy about Curbed publishing the details of the West Village (NYC) apartment where she and her girlfriend are moving.

September 2nd, 2010

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Thursday.

September 2nd, 2010

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Thursday.

September 2nd, 2010

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"Go Insane" (3:05)

Lindsey Buckingham

Go Insane (1985)

On a bit of a Lindsey Buckingham kick lately. “Go Insane” is on deck today.

September 1st, 2010

Apparently:

Is PM Stephen Harper close to getting a much-coveted seat on the United Nations Security Council?
Another (or the same?) grey whale has appeared in Vancouver’s waters.
A new bee species has been found in downtown Toronto.
The Guardian has interviewed Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner.
Jonathan Franzen says these are four new novels you shouldn’t miss.
These are The ~~Berenstain~~ Grow-Op Bears of Christina Lake.
A couple who left their car parked in a long-term lot near JFK Airport were shocked to find it had traveled 724 miles while they were gone.
Cobra vs. mongoose.
It doesn’t hurt to ask.
This was the New York City subway in the 1980s.
Apple has added social networking to iTunes; meanwhile, here are 5 reasons why Apple TV is still boring.
Actor Paul Hogan, star of the Crocodile Dundee films, has been barred from leaving Australia.
It’s “The Apostrophe Song”!

September 1st, 2010

Nobody likes a clown at midnight.

Stephen King.

September 1st, 2010

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

Frank Zappa.

September 1st, 2010

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Wednesday.

September 1st, 2010

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Wednesday. Goodbye, old apartment. You are gone, but not forgotten.

September 1st, 2010

Apparently:

R.I.P. Corinne Day.
PM Stephen Harper may have figured out a way to sell the idea of a majority Conservative government.
Yesterday was the wettest August day in Vancouver’s history.
Ottawa is studying Canada’s most economically successful first nations; but why?
This is Afghanistan’s “dirty little secret.”
Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, Freedom, is now in bookstores; just like Arcade Fire, he’s taking it to the suburbs!
The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos is getting a facelift, a new name.
TIFF vs. the bedbug frenzy (a non-story?); remember, they want your blood; oh, and they’re everywhere.
A doctor tried to force her way into her on/off-again boyfriend’s home by sliding down the chimney; it didn’t end well.
Shaquille O’Neal + Justin Bieber = ?
The U.S. is looking into Wikileak-proofing the Pentagon.
Here are 10 acts who will save 2010 from chillwave.
School supplies, by Marc Jacobs.
Fashion forward? These photos were taken more than 40 years ago, but could easily have been yesterday; go “Ivy Style”!

September 1st, 2010

Vancouver is so over-inflated there will be a big pop soon. $700,000 for a teardown? Crazy.

Reader comment left at CBC over its housing bubble report.

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