http://blog.fawny.org/2006/06/21/wrong/ blog.fawny.org Thu, 26 May 2011 13:52:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19861 http://blog.fawny.org/2006/06/21/wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-945 I can hardly wait for their flight to be over ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Wed, 30 May 2007 21:13:40 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2006/06/21/wrong/#comment-945 [...] Tara Ariano, alias Wing Chun, is the much-unloved dominatrix of Television Without Pity and, formerly, other sites like Hissyfit. We’ve never met. But, as supreme ruler of the worst kind of jumped-up high-school gang (always swift to interpret vague posting guidelines in favour of preferred members), and equally adroit with the cutting remark, Ariano and her husband, David T. Cole (“Glark”), epitomized the Wrong People’s Internets. Hissyfit’s maxim “You’re entitled to our opinion” was rather selective in its interpretation of who was included in “our.” There were always opinions that could get you banned from the site, get your post deleted, or elicit a warning (viz “Watch it, joeclark”). [...] [...] Tara Ariano, alias Wing Chun, is the much-unloved dominatrix of Television Without Pity and, formerly, other sites like Hissyfit. We’ve never met. But, as supreme ruler of the worst kind of jumped-up high-school gang (always swift to interpret vague posting guidelines in favour of preferred members), and equally adroit with the cutting remark, Ariano and her husband, David T. Cole (“Glark”), epitomized the Wrong People’s Internets. Hissyfit’s maxim “You’re entitled to our opinion” was rather selective in its interpretation of who was included in “our.” There were always opinions that could get you banned from the site, get your post deleted, or elicit a warning (viz “Watch it, joeclark”). [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2006/06/21/wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-466 Failed Redesigns III – Le «blog personnel» de Joe Clark Sat, 24 Jun 2006 21:01:13 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2006/06/21/wrong/#comment-466 [...] JPod: Douglas Coupland is one of those Wrong People who have their own Internets. Tables, 25 errors, etc. I will certainly grant that intentionally ugly sites like these are hard to produce in standards (Cf. the International Compliant Style), but Bruce Lawson managed it. [...] [...] JPod: Douglas Coupland is one of those Wrong People who have their own Internets. Tables, 25 errors, etc. I will certainly grant that intentionally ugly sites like these are hard to produce in standards (Cf. the International Compliant Style), but Bruce Lawson managed it. [...]

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