Archive for October 2009

Firepower    (2009.10.31)

Alphonse Ouimet should not have been surprised that I would turn the keys in unison and launch every missile in my armamentarium after he proved himself untrustworthy

Correcting Scott Rosenberg    (2009.10.29)

Say Everything by Scott Rosenberg gets me quite wrong

Editorial interference at the Tea Makers    (2009.10.28)

The only Tea Makers contributor who rewrites other contributors’ posts has cemented that authority in his own cloister. (Now updated)

‘Kool Thing: The Rock Critical List’    (2009.10.27)

I have copy-edited an available version of The Rock Critical List and published it for posterity

Jan Moir’s factual basis    (2009.10.25)

According to attested statements on gay “dating” sites, in fact Jan Moir got one thing quite right in her article on Stephen Gately

Talking with the taxman about thin spaces    (2009.10.24)

Guess what: Firefox nerds can’t figure out why anybody would want to use a thin space

Jessica Jenkins’ tin eye    (2009.10.24)

Only Eye would publish a cultural interpretation of modern typography in which the only font identified by name isn’t even used in any of the samples

Hold me closer, Hopeless Diamond    (2009.10.24)

Jonathan Barnbrook’s faceted typeface