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Mobile self-congratulation    (2011.01.19)

Why, one might ask, does the mobile version of the announcement of the Globe and Mail’s new mobile version suck?

End separatism at Pride Toronto    (2011.01.16)

Pride Toronto sponsors a real march for everybody, but also sponsors Dyke and Trans Marches. And they hire male and female co-chairs. This has got to stop, and I provide legal and ethical reasons why

My new PowerPoint technique is unstoppable    (2011.01.11)

There’s a whole chapter in A Visit from the Goon Squad created in PowerPoint. And it works

Obvious question about David Carson’s new magazine    (2011.01.09)

Will Carson be laid out in Quark or in PageMaker?

‘Dude’    (2011.01.05)

Michael Cunningham: “What kind of word is dude for a boy like Mizzy to be using?”

‘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