Archive for November 2011

How many times has English been used in the Quebec legislature?    (2011.11.30)

About 373 times since 1996

GetGlue, maker of iPhone apps blind people can’t use, is hiring!    (2011.11.30)

Some kind of app named GetGlue is so inaccessible two blind people had to record a 45-minute podcast teaching you how to overcome the problem. And now GetGlue is hiring!

Can you use an iPhone in the Yukon?    (2011.11.29)

Yes, the iPhone 4S works in Whitehorse, Yellowknife, and Fort Nelson – but you’d never know it from the lack of publicity

Where’s the Home button?    (2011.11.29)

Why struggle to find the Home button on a black iPad when you can just use AssistiveTouch?

‘The untold story of Kobo’    (2011.11.25)

Dan Morel has it wrong: Kobo’s business is selling defective merchandise

Do quit your spec-work trolling    (2011.11.25)

The producers of Don’t Quit Your Gay Job are trolling for spec work

Interview with ‘Lingua Franca’ about Canadian English    (2011.11.21)

ABC Radio National’s Lingua Franca interviewed me about Canadian English and Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours

How to take a screenshot    (2011.11.21)

On the iPad, press two buttons together. On the Kindle Fire, start a 22-step process

Objectivist Lululemon store co-opts Occupy movement’s slogan    (2011.11.21)

Objectivist Lululemon’s Yorkville storefront in Toronto features an “Occupy Yoga Studios” banner in the vitrine. Now, why, exactly?