Author archive

Pride CAP report copy-edits up    (2011.05.18)

Pride Community Advisory Panel copy-edits are now up for viewing by anyone (and for comment by a few).

Douché!    (2011.05.16)

“When you have to concede that someone has made a good counterargument, but they’re being a jerk about it”

This Week in Fagonomics (II)    (2011.05.15)

A recap of stories lazily reiterating the claim that gays are rich, which we aren’t. (Superspecial “Sithifrican” edition!)

Weakling cobbler befriends edentate brute    (2011.05.13)

So here we have wee Christian Louboutin adjusting the tie of giant Gareth Thomas

Outlandish statement by Julian Assange    (2011.05.13)

Facebook et al. “have an interface that they have developed for U.S. intelligence to use.” Citation needed

Best. Two-graf denunciation of beefcake calendar. Ever    (2011.05.13)

Two punch grafs in Xtra. (“They were going for a beefcake calendar but wound up with a rice-cake calendar”)

Most Modernist house for most heterosexualist Web designer    (2011.05.13)

How did Mike Davidson go from six figures to five to a Modernist dream house?

The mystique of the ‘studio’    (2011.05.13)

Berg London is building a mystique with its “weeknotes” postings. It’s all about the studio

The rise of ‘self-defeating copy-editing’    (2011.05.12)

When it comes to copy-editing (and especially quotation marks), do the exact opposite of everything Ben Yagoda says