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Notes from FCC interventions    (2006.03.09)

Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc. asked for changes to requirements for captioning quality, among other things. What were the responses?

Exploding the conference business    (2006.03.08)

(Pace Jeff Jarvis.) For two months straight, I have received weekly inquiries about South by Southwest: Was I going? Or, as it was more commonly expressed, wasn’t I going? No, I’m not. I’ve been there twice, presenting on both occasions, and, while I have admitted that it SXSW is a great time in which one […]

Auger or augur?    (2006.03.08)

If it is the quintessential New York story to pack up and move from Idaho to a cold-water tenement and a life in the theatre, and if it is the quintessential British story to leave in the morning with everything you own in a little black case –

– then surely it is the quintessential Toronto story to ride one’s bicycle in mid-winter past a lakefront beach barely dappled with snow only to encounter a disused front-end loader with rear auger attachment hiked up on its haunches on the sand.

‘My Jolly Corner’    (2006.03.05)

What does Guy Maddin have to say in Film Comment’s “My Jolly Corner”?

Gutted    (2006.03.05)

After WGBH and NCI gutted one office each of their captioning operations, let me just ask you a question: Are you sure you want to emerge victorious in a race to the bottom?

Backlog    (2006.03.04)

Not as bad as the last time, but still rather formidable.

Light-reading-for-a-Saturday-night kind of thing.

Stealth milquetoast    (2006.03.02)

In a previous era, I was able to photograph the rarest of police vehicles, the stealth cruiser (reproduced here).

Sort of like putting a studded collar on an accountant, it is now possible to photograph a stealth minivan.

The Swashways    (2006.02.28)

Animal/Vegetable/Mineral    (2006.02.27)

Plantin Bold, Futura Black, Serif Gothic Light.

I smell Letraset at work.