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To “celebrate” last night’s surprise Toronto Transit strike, let’s all download this rider-modified TTC subway routemap. Here’s the scoop, from the TTC Subway Rider Efficiency Guide:

On February 22, 2006, John Martz created a hilarious TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) Subway Map with each station’s name as an anagram. The map, inspired by a similar anagram map of London’s Tube, was an instant hit among Toronto’s online community. Within a few days though, a TTC lawyer sent a cease and desist letter to John citing intellectual property laws and threatening legal action if he didn’t pull it from his website.

In the years that have followed, I’ve noticed this thing popping up all over the place (including the original author’s site). It looks as though the TTC has cooled its jets (literally and figuratively), and it also looks like the original London anagram-map has inspired many others…

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As stated over at photobasement:

“We should all pity the science teacher, for this is what they deal with on a daily basis.”

Humility on parade. The future is in the hands of these young scientists!!!

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Sarah Silverman singing with Matt Damon!! - video powered by Metacafe

In one post I’m about to bring down the site’s integ a peg!

But before you go ape shit with me… I’m doing this cause our industry is so hot to produce the next big viral campaign and clients think that its going to help boost their presence online. Truth is most viral campaigns don’t get to their viral status cause it fails to do a lot of things.Such as, bringing out the brands true essence; so basically doing viral strategies that don’t fit the brand or the target they wish to communicate to. Then you have failure in offering relevant extensions to promote the campaign; sometimes executives push to promote the brand more than the campaign, forgetting that the campaign should do the job of promoting the brand.

And lastly and what I’m trying to show with this video… you have to have good viral content! Meaning, it would have to be something other people would like to pass around cause its meaningful, funny and relevant to them and they think other people would feel the same way about it, but also be proud that they spread it around.

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Dinner Date from Amir on Vimeo.So now you’re prolly bored of TV and just about run-out of shows to download! Well consider yourself saved :)This new online series Jake and Amir (Barely even comedy) is going to make you laugh, cry and sometimes smirk in discomfort. It is really worth the few minutes of break you have during your workday. Its going to be the next big hit, I tell you, a hit!Watch Jake and Amir.

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