Archive for June 2006

The eternal charms of Jim Roots    (2006.06.30)

An old letter (from 1998) from Jim Roots of the Canadian Association of the Deaf

Grey tarpaulin    (2006.06.30)

Schism in Spiritualism    (2006.06.28)

Unfabulous Redesigns    (2006.06.28)

Failed Redesigns: The Homosexualist Pride® Edition

Homosexualist Pride surprises    (2006.06.26)

Namely: Out homosexualist fireman and ginger engineer

Not Cooper’s or Danny’s    (2006.06.25)

The words BARBER SHOP resemble Zipper, by the way.

Failed Redesigns III    (2006.06.24)

Yet further Failed Redesigns (design sites especially), with some actual honourable mentions

Mysterious Beach Suburban    (2006.06.22)

This excitingly hazy samizdat-style THRILL-CAM shot does not quite do justice to what’s happening.

This Toronto police Suburban (not marked ETF, merely 55 Division) was seen driving around the actual beach at low speeds, making stations-of-the-cross stops at all the lifeguard towers.

But I saw no obvious cops, even any obvious undercover or plainclothes cops. The Suburban was full of guys in board shorts and no shirts, sometimes driving with a door open. What were they doing?

UPDATE (2006.09.04): A sergeant told me that Beach lifeguards are actually civilian employees of the Toronto police, and that any such Suburbans must be from the Marine Unit and are driven by lifeguard supervisors.

De facto exoneration for Robert Manne    (2006.06.22)

Richard Edelman responds to my litany of complaints about his petit fonctionnaire Robert Manne and Mesh Conference