Archive for August 2011

Zeke, rich widowed homosexualist    (2011.08.31)

Zeke, a rich widowed homosexualist featured in the Globe, pends like a drunken, widowed, homosexualist sailor

Zagat guide to Armond White    (2011.08.31)

Film critic Armond White’s Wikipedia entry reads more like a Zagat entry

So: How’s your workout at your gay gym going today?    (2011.08.31)

Unidentified solder, Infidel

Reporting on Tim Cook    (2011.08.25)

Now that generous, well-liked Felix Salmon has made essentially the same point about reporting on Apple CEO Tim Cook as I did, perhaps technology journalists will grab another chance to grow up

Why nerds hate emoji    (2011.08.25)

Because emoji, like the Tamara Hope Palm Pre commercials, remind male nerds that the computer doesn’t know you’re a girl, or not one

Anonymous Cowards Plus    (2011.08.25)

I’ll support the movement to allow pseudonyms on sites like Google Plus once I’m persuaded that proponents aren’t also proponents of unfettered, vicious anonymity online

Russell Smith’s visual impairment    (2011.08.25)

Russell Smith’s retinal detachment led him to complain that possible tasks are impossible. Let’s help him out!

Andrew Haigh begins counter-counternarrative    (2011.08.24)

The horrific dystopian apartment towers in Weekend are sites of quiet beauty, Andrew Haigh says – curiously enough, after I said the opposite