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Interview with ‘Lingua Franca’ about Canadian English    (2011.11.21)

ABC Radio National’s Lingua Franca interviewed me about Canadian English and Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours

How to take a screenshot    (2011.11.21)

On the iPad, press two buttons together. On the Kindle Fire, start a 22-step process

Objectivist Lululemon store co-opts Occupy movement’s slogan    (2011.11.21)

Objectivist Lululemon’s Yorkville storefront in Toronto features an “Occupy Yoga Studios” banner in the vitrine. Now, why, exactly?

Those poor lesbian moms    (2011.11.16)

Denise Balkissoon on lesbian moms: “Considering… the fact that women on average earn lower salaries.” I ask: Lower than whom?

Borked Unicode: Tips for journalists on writing clean copy    (2011.11.15)

Months in the making, today I’m releasing Borked Unicode, a pop-up blog that aims to teach hacks (i.e., journalists) the minimum they need to know about Unicode. The goal is to make it possible for hacks to write clean copy.

Steve Jobs at Apple vs. Edwin Land at Polaroid    (2011.11.07)

Edwin Land of Polaroid did almost everything Steve Jobs did – invented new technologies, built factories to manufacture them, imposed absolute secrecy, stirred audiences with spectacle, trained customers to want the next step in the evolution of technology – but did it 30 years earlier

Patients dying of AIDS soon to live in glass house    (2011.11.07)

Casey House is about to expand its heritage building with an assemblage of see-through glass cuboids. What could possibly go wrong for its clientele, people dying of AIDS?

Decadent gays never go out of style    (2011.11.07)

Decadent homosexualist interior designer Ryan Korban “love[s] fur, animal skins and taxidermy”

Who designed the Charter?    (2011.11.04)

Bob Herrera or George Baynes