Author archive

Why hasn’t Andrew Sullivan been deported yet?    (2009.03.19)

He’s a positoid and positoid visitors and immigrants are banned in the U.S. So why is he still there?

Google smothers designers    (2009.03.19)

Welcome, Irene Au of Google, to the title of Worst Enemy of Web Design

Error correction    (2009.03.18)

Every six months, somebody writes a new story about captioning that gets a dozen facts wrong

‘How Designers Fail’    (2009.03.18)

‘If a large-scale project should happen in one hour; a project 1/10 its size should happen in 1/10 the time. The most prevalent place this happens with design students is software’

Inverting the 20th century    (2009.03.17)

Do you really think the fact that six “top” fashion designers are all guys proves that fashion design is riven with sexism?

‘Generous in granting fame, but stingy in granting fortune’    (2009.03.16)

Jaron Lanier wrote a paper on how to promote Canadian identity online. Since it’s so hard to find, I’m providing excerpts

New podcast appearance    (2009.03.12)

My appearance on the World in Words podcast is finally up

Shortchangers    (2009.03.10)

How to ruin the typography of a novel in verse about L.A. lycanthropes

Three remixen that teach you how to remix    (2009.03.07)

U2, Coldplay (MORRISSEY: Oldplay), Lady Gaga