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Archive for May 2004

   (2004.05.31)

Memo to agents: Sign writers, not bloggers

   (2004.05.31)

Newsflash: Rock critic famous for exposing other rock critics’ petty hatreds has one himself

   (2004.05.30)

Or, more accurately, “Type sites *don’t* do Web standards.” Interview with Jean-François Porchez and Jérôme Vogel

   (2004.05.26)

New bookmarks for testing Web standards

   (2004.05.26)

The tables at B (op. cit.) are trays of pebbles drowned in clear epoxy.

Overhead photo of used espresso cup, empty glass, and purple-and-black Gore-Tex hat on white-pebbled tabletop

Sadly, these are communal tables, so if you head off to the nicest-ever crip washroom, when you come back you find yourself tactically surrounded by office ladies. “Oh, I’m sorry. Were you sitting here?”

On the other hand, the plasma screen runs movies with English same-language subtitles, further revealing the folly of such. (Plus they’ve got their aspect ratios wrong.)

   (2004.05.26)
Front-left five-pointed silver wheel and massive tire of parked black Bentley

And the kicker? This $400,000 car carried a disabled-driver permit. Funny, I didn’t know millionaires could drive but not walk!

   (2004.05.26)

The TTC still hasn’t destroyed every vestige of its mid-century typography, most reminiscent of Neutraface.

Tan-coloured hanging sign reading SOUTHBOUND in old sansserif face

“Neutraface,” by the way, is an impossible-to-utter mishmash of languages in its House Industries pronunciation orthodoxy (“Noytraface” – shouldn’t it be “Noytrafatchey”?). I just say “Nootrafays” and live with it.

   (2004.05.26)

Gay men love them unshaven hockey brutes!

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