toronto

Monday, December 03, 2007

skater. climber. runner. dilettante. i like to write about whatever strikes my fancy.

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Goad’s Atlas of Toronto -- Online!

I’ve cobbled together a simple online site for viewing the authoritative late-Victorian-era classic, Atlas of the City of Toronto , publ...
Is skateboarding illegal in Toronto?

This topic seems to recur every couple of months on a local skate forum I frequent, so I wrote up an aggregated answer based on the current ...
What Does A Decade of TTC Metropass Designs Look Like?

I once spent more than $14,000 to get around Toronto. Granted, it was over the course of eleven years. And the whole time, I never once ...
What would Google Maps for Toronto look like in 1858?

It amuses me to present the following zoomable, scrollable online version of the 1858 Boulton Atlas of the City of Toronto and Vicinity , s...
Beyond The Pink: The Subversion Of Barbie

Barbie: “A modern doll with a classic sensibility” Barbie is iconic. Ubiquitous, and evocative, she is an inscrutable Mona Lisa for o...
You’ll Love Exploring Toronto From 1818 To 2012 With This Amazing Interactive Map. Check Out 1947!

UPDATE: (March 2020) - The project discussed in this post seems to have gone defunct, unfortunately, so the original link won't work. Lu...