Author archive

iPhone type sizes in points    (2019.02.06)

I measured actual point sizes of type on an iPhone X

“1950s-era moppets”    (2019.02.06)

C. Paglia: “The moist apple fritter!”

Musclegays sure love their tempeh and broccoli    (2019.02.04)

Musclegays (as on Instagram) poison the well with their narcissism and just are not a joy to look at

Foster Brother of Son of Continued Greatest Hits of DataLounge    (2019.02.01)

Yet more bons mots

Futuristic accoutrements    (2019.01.25)

“Futuristic” clothing, like heroin, is so passé

“Centre stage is the safest place in the world”    (2019.01.23)

The late Carol Channing held that “the safest place in the world to be is centre stage.” It is

“Homeboy”    (2019.01.19)

Eldergay at Woody’s: “Now: Iggy Pop!” Who’s the eldergay now?

Folk UI    (2019.01.13)

User-interface conventions that individuals invented from scratch that went on to become actual norms.

Worst intellectual accents    (2019.01.07)

Public intellectuals have to be able to speak English. But the more they’re revered, the worse their accents, diction, and prosody are. (Nº 1 with a bullet: ŽIŽEK!)