Archive for the year 2004

1-800-GOT-MINI?    (2004.06.09)

I just can’t get over the effort required to vinyl-wrap a Mini to advertise waste management. (And what a transparent tax write-off!)

Will it fit in a dumpster?

How many natural-gas pipelines do we need?    (2004.06.09)

And why are their warning signs always beaten to shit? Did somebody back a speedboat into them?

B-links, June 7    (2004.06.07)

B-links, June 7

When we plumb the id, we go all the way    (2004.06.06)

Testing a link with an identifier 39,000 characters long

Post-industrial cantilever    (2004.06.06)

I don’t quite understand why we need a garage with an angled cantilevered roof in the wastelands of the Toronto harbour, but here it is. I think the fire-alarm annunciator is a hopeful touch. Do materials like these even burn?

When was the last time you saw a Winnebago?    (2004.06.06)

About twice in the last decade. And when I was a young fella, I was into this shit.

Leaving no stone unturned (and no sill uncleaned)    (2004.06.04)

One visited the BMW Toronto architectural feast in my hood during Doors Open. I still recall the occasional odour of burning Sunlight detergent in the building’s former incarnation.

It seems the builders jotted down a note or two on the windowsill.

Sadly, I did not get a shot of the Fruits-style Chinese chick with dyed hair, halter top, hot pants, and leggings with garters. However, I loved the freight elevators:

Branding with type    (2004.06.04)

Or “Rankin’ with type.” You don’t have to like Helvetica to acknowledge that the Ian Rankin paperbacks, with their debossed neon Helvetica author byline, work.

Election sites flunk standards test    (2004.06.03)

Canada’s political-party sites aren’t standards-compliant and are partly inaccessible to people with disabilities