Weekly roundup: December 12-18

Articles

Don’t blame the politicians, Canadians killed Kyoto from The Globe and Mail

Website error worries Winnipeg Harvest from CBC.ca [Judging by earlier year submissions without CRA errors the top 9 at the organization still make <$80,000 and likely in about $50,000 because otherwise their other full-time employees make significantly less than minimum wage.]

Wanted: Better On-Street Retail in New Condos from UrbanToronto

Ontario ‘undermining’ police watchdog, ombudsman warns from The Globe and Mail

Outsourcing justice for fear of offending the police from Toronto Star

Amazon’s Jungle Logic from The New York Times

Canadian politics somehow got worse from National Post

Why Alex can’t add (or subtract, multiply or divide) from The Globe and Mail

Fess up on fees in ads, Ottawa tells airlines from The Globe and Mail

Pressure washed street art from Colossal

TTC: Be prepared to pay if you want subways from National Post

Tweets

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-12-12T17:47:00.000Z. @mattmight@mathstodon.xyz (@mattmight). I conjecture that the probability of receiving a reply decays exponentially with the length of an email..

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-12-13T03:14:17.000Z. Matt Elliott (@GraphicMatt). First I will propose something terrible. Then I'll backtrack and propose something that's merely bad. Then you will thank me. Politics!.

I'm quite disturbed by mathematicians who think that programming is no business of theirs, but much more disturbed by the other way around.

— Conor McBride (@pigworker) December 16, 2011

https://twitter.com/#!/mikepmoffatt/status/146576882542985218

Bachmann: we've "gotten to a point where judges are the final arbiter of the law." Got to that point in 1787, I think.

— Philip Bump (@pbump) December 16, 2011

https://twitter.com/mikepmoffatt/status/147873861675925507

Video

PROTEIGON from STEVEN BRIAND on Vimeo.

^ from Colossal