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The Nazem Kadri Can Play Project    (2013.03.29)

Lovable Muslim hunk/Leafs centre Nazem Kadri has to prove he isn’t homophobic. The easiest way is to do what other NHL athletes have done – record a You Can Play video

Sunfire misfire    (2013.03.10)

The Pontiac Sunfire, with the worst automotive front end since the Edsel, versus the Holden Commodore (Pontiac G8)

‘The Coach House way of doing things’    (2013.01.21)

What is “the Coach House way of doing things”? (I expect artisanal publishing to produce beautiful objects you will love to read)

MetaStupid    (2013.01.01)

A year-long hiatus from MetaFilter, where I am user 250 (1999), due to the entrenched stupidity of its intelligent and sophisticated owner and developer

Subverting the Muslim fatwa against dogs    (2012.12.30)

Jessica McDiarmid won’t explain why a “country” treats dogs “more as vermin than pets.” It’s because Afghanistan is Islamic

Toronto journalists’ technical illiteracy made them late on a story by a full year    (2012.10.17)

Toronto journalists, a monoculture of a commentariat class, have a shared technical incompetence that made them a year late on the biggest journalism story of ’012

Hart/Freeman/Simm    (2012.09.12)

The Hart/Freeman/Simm Axis, now with better pictures

Baskerville, like lead in the bloodstream, makes smart people stupid    (2012.08.26)

Errol Morris gets basically everything wrong in his “test” that “proved” Baskerville was the most credible typeface. But don’t worry: My corrections here will not change anything