Author archive

TTC TUG    (2016.11.07)

I gave a presentation on TTC typography to a group of aging computer scientists and mathematical typesetters. Then I toured them through the subway. And they loved me

Bill 28: The ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Act    (2016.11.07)

I gave testimony to the Ontario legislature about a bill that would define motherhood out of existence. Then a fat social-justice-warrior manquéee at a right-wing newspaper misrepresented me on Twitter

This Week in Type: I Left My 💝 in ‑apple-system-body    (2016.10.10)

(2016.10.10; posted 2017.06.27)

‘The Trump Card’ by Mike Daisey    (2016.09.24)

Mike Daisey’s monologue The Trump Card in formats you can actually read and modify.

‘When Men Meet’    (2016.08.21)

Some excerpts from the obscure but quite excellent When Men Meet by Henning Bech of Denmark

“You’re designing for money”    (2016.08.21)

Paula Scher on Tiffany: “It’s money. You’re designing for money”

LOLlinghurst    (2016.07.05)

Alan Hollinghurst hoist by own petard on Twitter

Paralanguage of Instagram    (2016.06.28)

Instagram hovers on top of human language. It’s a global medium without a hint of of cultural appropriation or imperialism

Evalion, Canada’s littlest Nazi    (2016.06.19)

If we had hacks with balls and activists who took action, Southern Ontario’s youngest Nazi, Evalion, could be investigated