Archive for December 2010

‘340 male soliders in Iraq’    (2010.12.30)

What Web site has “more than 340 male soldiers in Iraq actively seeking encounters”?

Question for Rob Walker: How much money does Boing Boing make?    (2010.12.30)

Why didn’t Rob Walker find out and document how much money Boing Boing makes? He already told us its “world” is “profitable”; why not prove it?

Gay book-review site Geocities itself    (2010.12.30)

J.M. Snyder is threatening to permanently delete 2,300 Rainbow Reviews entries six months from now

Best-illustrated article of the year    (2010.12.30)

Christopher Serra’s illustrations for a Journal piece about guy-centric TV

‘Most prose born on the Internet is highly defensive’    (2010.12.30)

Paul Ford: ‘Most prose born on the Internet is highly defensive. Everyone is braced for audience attack’

Worst words-of-the-year article of the year    (2010.12.29)

Misty Harris wrote the worst article about words of the year. And the worst sin in this worst article? Guidette says it all

Wanted: Aussie developers for quixotic project    (2010.12.28)

A project down in Oz needs highest-calibre Web developers and designers

Claire Berlinski pulls rug out    (2010.12.24)

Claire Berlinski demolishes not only the sanctimony of the entire exercise of best-book-of-the-year lists but the undead premise of the entire publishing industry

Cruise guys with Grindr? Somebody could out you    (2010.12.22)

(UPDATED) Gay cruising app Grindr has is guilty of serious privacy breaches according to Wall Street Journal testing. The technical ignoramus who runs the company denies that’s a problem. This will not end well