I wrote a thing about twitterbots and the curious humans who talk to them https://t.co/AVXyz5Dwaj — Mispy ☀ (@m1sp) May 3, 2014

Are you suddenly interested in basketball but don't know enough about it? Consult this handy guide! http://t.co/gdPJVGSWua — Mason Wright (@thismason) May 1, 2014

Software canon by @ftrain https://t.co/xv2XwCTvkA - MS Office, Photoshop, Pacman, UNIX, Emacs. Legends all. (via @anildash) — Boris Mann (@bmann) April 30, 2014

This is @ezraklein changing, not Twitter. If you don’t like his shift, easy to find others. http://t.co/eTcdGKSO48 pic.twitter.com/v4CssUKBrC — Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) April 30, 2014

So Dickey basically asked Gibby for a shorter leash: http://t.co/YyX7LaW2Wh That's... actually really impressive. Good for him. — Ty Berry (@tberry3) April 28, 2014

I was interviewed for the @TheOrchardApp talking about my phone & apps http://t.co/IG3BLaC5YT - I promoted @mailbox & @SlackHQ — Boris Mann (@bmann) April 28, 2014

I was in. I always wanted to start using a standing desk. I heard the benefits. And read the studies. The American Cancer Society tracked 123,000 people for an 18-year period and found the death rate was higher in people that sat more than six hours per day. In another study with over 200,000…

My site is broken, so I wrote a thing on @medium about what I do when I need to focus: https://t.co/Kp7wKgGU6O — Steve (@Stv) April 27, 2014

aNewDomain.net — So, you’ve worked hard to recruit talented technical women to your company, and you certainly don’t want to lose them. While there are myriad reasons why people leave jobs, there are practices in the tech industry that can create caustic work environments for women. Here are seven…

Must-read, beautifully written, elegiac article about the new reach of civil surveillance into our lives, by @qhardy: http://t.co/1qQpLxd8H3 — Lauren Cerand (@luxlotus) April 20, 2014

Brett Lawrie's old-school glove is seen in Toronto. (Mark Blinch for The Globe and Mail) In the early days, they were simple leather work gloves with the fingers sliced off, offering little protection against the impact of a rock-hard, speeding ball. Today, baseball gloves are not only large,…

Today the internet discovered a site called CodeBabes. You’ve probably already figured out what it is based on the name. You learn code from a series of videos…

Mapping your moves: https://t.co/mZBbcJJw9m the design over a year @heyitsgarrett running, walking, cycling pic.twitter.com/eS1MEbhFvb — Mapbox (@Mapbox) April 24, 2014

Remind me to take a moment and photoshop in "Blue Jays Nation" - Up Close on Baseball’s Borders http://t.co/6CvoJII8uT — Stephen Northfield (@snorthfield45) April 24, 2014

When Sergio Marchionne abruptly withdrew Chrysler's request for $700-million from the Ontario and federal governments last month – complaining that his subsidy demand had become a "political football" in the province – it seemed to many that he didst protest too much. Corporate demands for…

Josh Lueke did this: http://t.co/3Oc7kpJKJs So I did this: http://t.co/7PpsZD7XaW (fight on, @MissStaceyMay) — Feminist Bautista (@FemmyBats19) April 22, 2014

Wondering what to do about @github and sexism in tech? Start where you live and work with this intro by @shanley https://t.co/MmujNsHw1m — Chris Demwell (@cdemwell) April 22, 2014

Introducing Smart Directions https://t.co/igW9OoN2tB pic.twitter.com/DvhD5CZnOz — Mapbox (@Mapbox) April 22, 2014

Share This Essay More from This Issue April 2014 P eople in the rest of Canada often perceive Alberta as a monolith. You know those Albertans: they all vote…

Even as onomatopoeias go, ha ha is an oddity. It represents laughter, considered by most researchers to be humankind’s universal way of expressing amusement.…

Wrote about how the "brogrammer" is a media fantasy. https://t.co/rpSnc9Ui8S — kate losse (@katelosse) April 13, 2014

Park and ride facilities are darling infrastructure of the transit planning profession. By providing “free” parking to lure choice riders out of cars and onto buses and trains, ridership can get a big boost. No wonder transit operators in our metro provide 258% more “free” parking spaces than…

The aesthetics of ruins in video games is one of the ways we use art to explore time and change. http://t.co/3Mnsk1Z1Qj — Denim & Steel (@DenimAndSteel) March 9, 2014

I talked with @findery founder @Caterina Fake about taking risks & the value of failure. "Always make new mistakes" http://t.co/ZizaZbX4Px — Nina Zipkin (@NinaZipkin) April 10, 2014

Culture Desk April 8, 2014 This weekend, thinking about David Letterman’s pending retirement—last Thursday, he announced that he will retire in 2015—I came up with a theory: Letterman is for cat people. Dog people, who seek out affability and enthusiasm in their late-night hosts, gravitate toward…

A map of patios now open until midnight in Vancouver: http://t.co/oagqmFigP9 — Claire Atkin (@claire_atkin) April 9, 2014

The Internet’s Telltale Heartbleed http://t.co/JeYZUSt8LM — The New Yorker (@NewYorker) April 10, 2014

#curious RT @Miss604: RT @johnleewriter: More details on the return of passenger rail services to Vancouver Island http://t.co/vwiTr0hiSJ — Dave Olson (@uncleweed) April 7, 2014

Books March 2, 2014 A. M. Rosenthal (far right) believed that apathetic bystanders, not just Winston Moseley, were to blame for Genovese’s death.Photography from (left to right): New York Times / Redux; Corbis; AP Plucking a few events out of the vastness of the world and declaring them to be the…

Brendan Eich has stepped down as Mozilla’s CEO: http://t.co/td5bLJ0gDc — Firefox (@firefox) April 3, 2014

Like many people inside and outside Mozilla, I was quite startled last week to discover that the board of the Mozilla Corporation—a subsidiary of the Mozilla…

Former NDP premiers that have quit the party over its direction should form a club, Bob, Ujal, and now Mike. http://t.co/6nq8oWHGJT — Jeff Jedras (@jeffjedras) April 1, 2014

My adventures with mute filters. http://t.co/WH0XRruszN — Allen Pike (@apike) April 1, 2014