YFive for February 22, 2012

1

The Wire.ca

In a fair and just society, massive invasions of privacy such as wire taps require a court order signed by a judge. In Stephen Harper’s Brave New Canada, a series of proposed bills will allow the government to track all of your online activity because, well, why not. ISPs will be required to implement elaborate and expensive tracking systems and provide subscriber information to authorities without any court intervention.

Canadians haven’t chosen to “stand… with the child pornographers” simply because we don’t want to share our LARPing videos and the fruits of one ill-advised boudoir photography session.

2

Venture Capital Kids

Just because the median age for CEOs of multi-million dollar technology startups seems to be about 12 doesn’t mean we’re a failure whose meagre accomplishments will quickly be forgotten soon after we shuffle off this earth in a few short years. Though venture capitalists are funding more people under 21 than ever before, we are still confident in our ability to out-drink any of them. Plus, we have these really cool scars and a guitar that’s, like, two guitars.

Oh, we’ve wasted our life.

Check out the acolytes of Zuck at The Globe and Mail.

3

When Men Get Board

If you happened to check out the front page of Pinterest, perhaps after hearing about the newest social media darling from a (likely female) friend or co-worker, you could be forgiven for thinking it’s a modern day girls’ club. Presently, the front page is dominated by a recipe for pasta with pancetta and arugula, a fashionable, leggy model with the caption that simply reads “outfit” and a pin-up photo of Zac Efron.

Fortunately, there’s also the Board of Man, helping claim at least a portion of this new landscape for us guys. While we are still not sold on this flavour-of-the-month, any site that reinforces our love of bourbon AND milkshakes can’t be so bad.

Find out everything you need to know about Pinterest at NPR.

4

Staring at the Sun

It’s easy to pile on the husband of the Finnish president for getting more than a sense of Princess Mary of Denmark, but have any of you actually seen the Finnish president?

5

The Lifelike Paul Rudd

Not even the presence of Jennifer Aniston’s creepy puppeteer can detract from this behind-the-scenes look at David Wain and Ken Marino’s upcoming film, Wanderlust. Unfortunately, due to a widely-reported helium shortage, Malin Ackerman had to be deflated before production wrapped.


via CollegeHumor