• At Apostrophen, 'Nathan Smith writes about the status of his various writing projects.
• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling links to an article examining pieces of software that have shaped modern music.
• blogTO notes the expansion of the Drake Hotel to a new Junction site. Clearly the Drake is becoming a brand.
• Citizen Science Salon looks at how ( Read more... )

• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith writes about Christmas cards and memory.
• blogTO notes the impending expansion of the Drake Hotel.
• The Broadside Blog describes a documentary, The Eagle Huntress, about a Mongolian teenage girl who becomes a hunter using eagles, that sounds spectacular.
• Crooked Timber asks readers to help a teenager who has been arrested by ( Read more... )

West Queen West, the neighbourhood where I lived after first moving to Toronto stretching along Queen Street West from Bathurst almost to Dufferin, has been rated by Vogue magazine as the second-trendiest neighbourhood in the world. See The Globe and Mail's summary.

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I'm a bit embarrassed that I hadn't been to the Drake Hotel's über-trendy lounge before tonight. Now that I have, I have to say that there's not all that much to it on a non-weekend night, apart from trendy-looking people getting drunk too early and old nature and anthropoligy films projected against an inflatable white cube.