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If you want lousy audio description, hire NCI    (2011.12.06)

Listen to this sample from Iron Man 2 and tell me you could put up with this bullshit for two straight hours

Ask Rick Mercer about his man(se)    (2011.12.05)

The Star’s gullible reporter Emily Mathieu takes rich gay TV star Rick Mercer’s word for it about his house. But what about the house he now lives in, which he and his producer/husband reportedly bought in cash?

Journos unable to diagnose why gay blogs lose money    (2011.12.05)

Of course gay blogs don’t make money. Their owners don’t know their own industries, have bad taste, and suicidally insist on doing what is known not to work. Journos covering the topic are just as baffled

How many times has English been used in the Quebec legislature?    (2011.11.30)

About 373 times since 1996

GetGlue, maker of iPhone apps blind people can’t use, is hiring!    (2011.11.30)

Some kind of app named GetGlue is so inaccessible two blind people had to record a 45-minute podcast teaching you how to overcome the problem. And now GetGlue is hiring!

Can you use an iPhone in the Yukon?    (2011.11.29)

Yes, the iPhone 4S works in Whitehorse, Yellowknife, and Fort Nelson – but you’d never know it from the lack of publicity

Where’s the Home button?    (2011.11.29)

Why struggle to find the Home button on a black iPad when you can just use AssistiveTouch?

‘The untold story of Kobo’    (2011.11.25)

Dan Morel has it wrong: Kobo’s business is selling defective merchandise

Do quit your spec-work trolling    (2011.11.25)

The producers of Don’t Quit Your Gay Job are trolling for spec work