Archive for March 2010

Freakonomics of child restraints    (2010.03.29)

What Levitt and Dubner write in Freakonomics about child restraints just is not accurate or specific enough

Gerry Leonidas’s sermon from the mount    (2010.03.29)

Gerry Leonidas (airily): “To paraphrase Goudy, the problem is not… that the old-timers stole all the best ideas, but that the old ideas are in danger of being rediscovered from scratch”

Thu, Mar 25 on Church St, hell froze over    (2010.03.28)

Xtra finally experiences a hot-beef-injection-like influx of italics

Confidential to Merlin Mann    (2010.03.26)

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Still difficult to like    (2010.03.21)

Difficult-to-like “paleoconservative” homosexualist Jack Donovan insists “gay marriage” and “gays in the military” are unrelated issues. But economists could actually test that

Graphic design, mishmashed    (2010.03.18)

Not only is Graphic Design, Referenced disorganized, it’s barely written in English sometimes. (But love the hand-sketched illos)

Freelancers as panhandlers    (2010.03.16)

While I’m waiting for tens of thousands of dollars in a copyright-infringement settlement (now delayed), I’m pitching again for contributions to The Cranky Copyright Book. But there’s a payoff: The book is going to be published

‘The horror vacui sensibility of the rich’    (2010.03.15)

Gary Indiana: ‘The horror vacui sensibility of the rich is a form of voodoo against the inevitable’