Author archive

Memo to Khoi Vinh: Helvetica complaints (2014.10.28): Khoi Vinh: “Helvetica has been the standard system typeface for iOS since the beginning, and largely without complaint.” Oh?

Yellowest bobsledders (2014.10.21): Manuel Machata and team: Now the yellowest bobsledders

‘There was nothing we would not have done for you then – and probably yet today’ (2014.10.18): Duane Michals concludes his oddball war memoir The Lieutenant Who Loved His Platoon with this letter from one of his grunts

Hank Homo (2014.10.18): The late Eric Rofes: Hank Homo ‘knows what’s safe and what’s not safe and wears a red ribbon on his leather-jacket lapel. Hank throws himself into “the life” with gusto, good humour, and the best intentions. He discovers the dance clubs and the sex clubs, is jerked off in the showers at his gym (or the park at night, or the tearoom in the department store), and picks up men on subways, streetcorners, and at the corner market. He’s feeling good, he’s feeling hot – finally attractive and at home in his body. At 28 years old, he’s living the kind of life he’s always dreamed of: Out and proud as a gay man, immersed in a gay-positive environment, sharing in a communal culture of pleasure and freedom and affirmation’

How to be a woman in information technology (2014.10.17): Be a man in a dress, like not-rapist Dana Contreras and not-mother “Meghan Stabler”

Tilde Club (2014.10.17): Paul Ford’s Tilde Club: Which would you prefer – an iPhone or feeding dimes into a payphone that cannot receive calls?

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