Author archive

Helvetica of one’s youth    (2010.07.09)

The CN/CP usage of Helvetica – particularly CP Rail’s Helvetica Bold Italic (other example) – is seared into the memory of a specific generation.

Not quite open-source literature    (2010.07.09)

Nic Boshart: “Tech people write blogs on how to do what they’re doing. They participate with other people in their fields to build better things. They purposely interact with outsiders to help them learn for free.… What do publishers do? Close Book Expo America to the public”

Ambiguous kilmerpurcellian bons mots    (2010.07.09)

Can you understand what euphoniously-named homosexualist writer Josh Kilmer-Purcell is saying here?

Another ‘Life’ to live through    (2010.07.09)

Is Toronto Life really an unkillable institution? Are we on the verge of finding out?

It’s 2137 and nothing’s changed    (2010.07.08)

Full truth: The Onion News Network’s Future: News from the Year 2137 still has no fucking captions

All the best parts of ‘Reality Hunger’    (2010.07.06)

The best parts of Reality Hunger are, paradoxically, the parts David Shields wrote himself

Tyvekked    (2010.07.06)

War is heck    (2010.07.05)

Late afternoon, G20 protest outside “detention centre,” Pape north of Eastern

Acadian    (2010.07.01)

Bonne fête du Canada, Pontiac Acadian!

This is a country that could benefit from a bit more nationalism.