If you have attended any institute of higher learning, it is inevitable that you've endured a lecture with an overeager student ready to voice their opinion every five seconds. While full engagement in class stimulates healthy debate and knowledge exchange, some people take it to extreme lengths. Whether it be incessant stories about obscure 16th century musical instruments illustrated in a textbook, the opportunity to turn a discussion on grammar into a stump speech......

Take note, Mobile Moment: this is the kind of post that no amount of guerilla stickering will get you.......

Today's Star has a great article about hipsters (thanks Mark Jull for sending it in), which quotes Stillepost, cites Vice's Gavin McInnes, and contests an Adbusters article declaring that "the hipster represents the end of Western civilization." As part of her argument defending those-who-ought-not-be-named, writer Sarah Barmak notes that "the way people communicate deep involvement—in social change, in discourse, in subculture—has gone from being a below-ground, analogue language of worn, spray-painted or stitched symbols to......

The legions of cyber Romeos and Juliets who are slaves to Craigslist's Missed Connections in the hopes of being wooed by a mystery someone can now declare their insta-infatuation via text message with MobileMoment.ca. The Toronto-based website, which had its soft launch Wednesday, hasn’t seen much action yet, but we’re pretty sure that the ability to gush about The Elevator Hottie or The Cute Cashier to all of Toronto in the hopes of scoring a......

Snappy Answers runs every Saturday afternoon. Send your questions, be they tough or trivial, to snappyanswers@torontoist.com. Ok seriously. As an avid reader of them, I must know: why won't any of the plethora of adorable Toronto women that I see in the city Missed Connections me? It's all that I, the helpless romantic Craigslist addict, want out of life (give or take a few other minor things). I dress fine, I make eye contact but......

On Tuesday night, Craigslist's Missed Connections lurkers converged on the World's Biggest Bookstore at Yonge and Edward for the very first Craigslist Missed Connections Addicts Anonymous meeting. The event, like the corner of the classifieds site it celebrated, was founded on shyness and ambiguity: the store's management, employees, and customers had no idea that they were taking part in an event, leaving actual participants to people-watch with crossed fingers, taking down details for posts......

Do you pore over missed connections as you pour your daily cup of joe? Consider Craigslists classifieds more essential literature than the New York Times Bestsellers list? Better still, are you in search of that elusive, mysterious character from the subway for whom you've professed your love for, time and time again? This week, those who still believe in love at first sight are welcome to shop for lovers and books, and perhaps make......

"Missed Connection posts are at an all-time high. "Help reduce the numbers by talking to that girl on the bus." Words of existential wisdom (which needn't be interpreted as gender-specific) spotted by former contributor Carly Beath on the streetcar stop at the southwest corner of Dundas and University. Photo by Jonathan Goldsbie.......

Photo by ariehsinger from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. If you've got a lonely heart, the only cure is to ride the rocket, at least according to missed connections. We've been noticing a continuing trend of TTC-related personals on craigslist, and thought we should alert all Metropass holders of the dashing driver on route #6, and the law-abiding, yet criminally sexy toll-taker at Yorkdale. Read on for a few of our favourites.......

Photo by David Topping. Torontoist has a major crush on missed connections, and this one made our day: West Queen West, Drake/Beacs - m4w last weekend, at the drake. Or maybe it was the beaconsfield. You are very stylish, wearing an outfit from american apparel. it was colourful. i was skinny, wearing jeans and a t-shirt with my favourite band on it, with a vintage sweater over top. we talked for a bit, and......

The Missed Connections forum on Craigslist is usually a repository of "the urban equivalent of messages in a bottle." It’s home to those wishing for a second chance at a serendipitous encounter and to cute, shy-person flirting, as nameless, faceless people share their private emotions in a very public way. The messages usually affirm that no matter how much coldness there seems to be at street level, there’s just as much hope and optimism......

Kizmeet, the first site solely dedicated to finding missed connections, was launched in Toronto this week. The latest incarnation of the interwebs as cupid mixes serendipity and strategy: “With Kizmeet.com, you’ve already felt the spark –- you just need to find the person again.” Searching online for a long-lost someone or nameless crush isn’t a new phenomenon -- Craigslist and NOW offer this service, but Kizmeet differs by filtering posts through nine categories according to......

We start today's late roundup with the Dixie Chicks or the Dixie Chicks documentary to be exact. GreenCine daily goes on at length about Shut Up and Sing, the doc about the backlash the country trio faced after making anti-Bush comments. And we can't seem to shake Borat. Time's Richard Corliss seems to have fallen under the Kazakh's spell and gushes about the film. The Hollywood Reporter blog points out that Borat doesn't actually speak......

Internet stalking has blown to outrageous proportions on the interweb and the Missed Connections page on Craigslist is the hotspot for the lonely-hearted as well as the mildly (or moderately) curious. Recent hot topics on the Missed Connections page have included the Cheese Magic boys, the Soundscapes crew, and the Euclid and College Starbucks bunch. Torontonians have brought stalking to a new level by going above and beyond daily trips to buy an extra brick......

Torontoist contributor Shari K. pointed us to Kijiji, a bulletin board service launched earlier this year that lets you post messages, jobs, for sale ads, apartment listings and more. This piqued our curiousity. Kijiji (whose name is a typographic nightmare!) seems like a Craigslist clone albeit with a touch of cuteness. The name means village in Swahili, they post photos of the site moderators (like this one) and it seems like a fun, little non-profit......

The National Post Toronto section has a chintzy little story on the top 10 pick-up joints. Some of the sites are questionable, Woodbine Racetrack, the Shouldice Hospital (which specializes in hernias!). Others kinda make sense, High Park is a no-brainer and so's the boulevard on Lakeshore, the Chapters on John Street also gets picked as a good spot, you can invite your new crush for a movie right away if you're really slick. The subway......