Archive for June 2006

Failed Redesigns III    (2006.06.24)

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

Whither WAI and WCAG?    (2006.06.23)

What happens next for WCAG 2? One option: Shut down the committee altogether

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

Beach bench usurpation    (2006.06.21)

The old guard must make way for the new, &c, &c.

The wrong people’s Internets    (2006.06.21)

If you’re in your own silo on the Internet and you’re trying to talk to somebody in their own silo, are you actually communicating?

Colour-coördinated air rides    (2006.06.20)

I was not aware that Spanish was intrinsically blue.

French as intrinsically yellow I can get behind, though.

Beach sand leveller    (2006.06.19)

I suppose this is unremarkable on beaches in general. It is nonetheless a rather alien sighting one city block away from a major thoroughfare.