Archive for January 2010

Jonathan Ive: Print the legend    (2010.01.18)

Jonathan Ive drives a DB7, not a Rolls or Bentley. But how might he defend his choice of the latter?

Too white! Too strong!    (2010.01.15)

Mark McGwire liked hitting the ball really fucking hard and far. But what does a white lesbian think about a gay-sports site?

Flaming    (2010.01.15)

Was Tara Ariano ever Canadian?    (2010.01.12)

Alleged Canadian Tara Ariano: “Your money is stupid”

‘The problem section’    (2010.01.12)

A couple of things you can leave out: “The problem section” in magazine articles; historical digressions in books

Surely you understand by now why comments are a bad idea    (2010.01.12)

“[A] searing insight into the pathetic and disastrous state of our comment-obsessed culture”

What’s your publisher done for you lately?    (2010.01.12)

According to a tendentious, borderline dishonest Jonathan Galassi, tons. And now they own your book, essentially

A digital magazine is not quite a ‘Web site’    (2010.01.12)

But it will be expressed as some form of HTML. Still, there will be problems

1 ≠ I    (2010.01.11)

It’s great that Al Gore noticed a ranging-figure 1 was hard to read. It’s hard to read because of the fake bullshit rule that acronyms have to be typeset in small caps. (Now with update you won’t bother to read)