Author archive

“Youngman”    (2014.09.19)

John Rechy: “YMCA” begins with “youngman” from City of Night

Apple Watch typeface    (2014.09.13)

What’s the Apple Watch typeface? It’s not quite DIN

‘Super-Cannes’ locations    (2014.09.05)

Rick Poynor: Locations in Super-Cannes

A sudden rash of lesbian lying about gay men’s “disposable income”    (2014.08.27)

Julie Bindel and Rachel Swan should know better than to publish falsehoods about gay men’s incomes

“the orientation formerly known as heterosexual”    (2014.08.27)

GenderTrender, exhibiting too many copy errors but with equally too many juicy bons mots to go without recognition

Holly Hunter manquée Kara Swisher    (2014.08.27)

Kara Swisher: “I essentially called him a pig, with my name attached,” Swisher says. “You have to stand up and not be embarrassed or victimized.” When she subsequently saw McLaughlin at a party, she says, he told her, “ ‘Most people in this town stab you in the back, but you stabbed me in the front, and I appreciate that.’ I said ‘Anytime, you son of a bitch’ ”

Correcting Alexis Madrigal    (2014.08.27)

“E-mail is still the best thing on the Internet” if you’re using Eudora and you aren’t top-posting. In other words, it isn’t

Ftrain then and now    (2014.08.27)

Two rather different pieces from Paul Ford

How not to typeset Medium    (2014.08.27)

Medium.com: Where we spend months figuring out how to underline a word but still typeset all our copy like Microsoft Word