Archive for May 2011

Best. Two-graf denunciation of beefcake calendar. Ever    (2011.05.13)

Two punch grafs in Xtra. (“They were going for a beefcake calendar but wound up with a rice-cake calendar”)

Most Modernist house for most heterosexualist Web designer    (2011.05.13)

How did Mike Davidson go from six figures to five to a Modernist dream house?

The mystique of the ‘studio’    (2011.05.13)

Berg London is building a mystique with its “weeknotes” postings. It’s all about the studio

The rise of ‘self-defeating copy-editing’    (2011.05.12)

When it comes to copy-editing (and especially quotation marks), do the exact opposite of everything Ben Yagoda says

Gay tech conference    (2011.05.11)

I had an idea for a gay technology conference. Then I realized it would have to happen anywhere but here

Bookmarks that’ll get you banned on the new Delicious    (2011.05.08)

Delicious’s new owners’ terms of use will effectively ban gay males from linking to their own profiles. Wouldn’t that be illegal discrimination?

OCAD grad show 2011 teaser    (2011.05.07)

Tom Briggs, gold-medal winner, has the manners you’d expect

Opposing the war/Supporting the troops    (2011.05.05)

The Ryerson Review of Journalism release party is just the peevish and niggardly kind of venue at which Toronto excels. Also: Levi Nicholson’s temper

Michael Kaplan, cheap-shot artist    (2011.05.04)

Michael Kaplan of (significantly) Microsoft takes time out of his busy day to bash Apple in an otherwise-unrelated post