Author archive

‘Design Is a Job’    (2012.04.12)

A designer tells a client why his designs say what the client means. Young designers need Monteiro’s Design Is a Job to learn how to do that. Design Is a Job needed an editor

Canadian Word of the Year 2011    (2012.04.11)

Two or three variants of the same word: orange and Ornge

Best testimony by gaybashing victims ever    (2012.04.01)

Two vizmin accused gaybashers’ lawyers were no match for one of the victims in the court case, David Holtzman

And Maria Popova as Donald Trump    (2012.03.25)

Donald Trump: Deals are my art form. Maria Popova: Curation is artistic labour. Compare and contrast

Prosthetic foot with bobspike    (2012.03.18)

Cody Reese’s foot and shoe

Somebody buy Russell Smith an iPad    (2012.03.11)

Novelist/columnist/journalist/bon vivant Russell Smith needs to quit dramatically bemoaning that his literary career is over the next time he suffers a retinal detachment. Instead, he needs an iPad

Bobsleigh ’012    (2012.03.08)

So. Bobsleigh over the past year, including what happened to the Bad News Koalas of bobsledding, Australia

When Readability harms readability    (2012.03.07)

The Readability app supposedly makes Web pages easier to read. What does it do to pages that are already easy to read?

Hot new iPhone apps by irresponsible developers    (2012.03.01)

How many hot-hot-hot! new iOS apps have impressed legions of fans while demonstrating their developers are too irresponsible or incompetent to make them accessible under VoiceOver? Shall we start a list? [Updated twice]