Author archive

Khoi Vinh: We were too stupid to charge for Mixel, and, unlike Instagram, nobody bought us out    (2012.08.08)

Khoi Vinh is shitcanning Mixel. Why didn’t he simply charge for it all along?

This is how lousy Android accessibility is    (2012.08.05)

A couple of Android devices, running the rarely-seen current version of the operating system, kind of support accessibility. How well? About as well as you’d expect

Correcting John Barber    (2012.07.31)

Globe and Mail publishing reporter John Barber allowed a serious factual error to creep into an article about the future of professional writers. But the Globe itself darkened that future

Type size on the AIDS Memorial    (2012.07.30)

Yes, the type size on the AIDS Memorial was reduced at one point, but “teeny tiny” it isn’t

The Hart/Freeman/Simm Axis    (2012.07.23)

The Ian Hart/Martin Freeman/John Simm Axis of British actors

Sarah Nicole Prickett, mistress of unintended consequences    (2012.07.16)

Does Sarah Nicole Prickett really think her hit piece on Aaron Sorkin means she’s got it made?

Hetïsm    (2012.07.09)

Nobody told me that the now-notorious Sheila Heti review in the New Yorker included a stunning photograph of the authoress

Toronto police: Eliminating condescension one victim at a time    (2012.06.28)

What happens when a Toronto police officer calls a journalist condescending? He reports it

Rich man, poor man, beggar man, bobsledder    (2012.06.21)

Chris Spring has ever so much trouble buying a house, while Nic Carrière can barely stay awake through full-time work and training