Archive for category: Asides

Tom Hardy’s Traps    (2012.01.04)

The Facebook justifies its existence

Keeping up with the Eameses    (2011.12.13)

The plural of Eames is Eameses, Ice Cube

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

Who designed the Charter?    (2011.11.04)

Bob Herrera or George Baynes

‘Trend colours’    (2011.10.18)

Only 3% of Ford buyers choose “trend colours” like ochre or pink

Fixing your makeup    (2011.10.12)

Hana Zalzal redesigned makeup from the particles on upward, then fixed the packaging

Of course Siri will work in Canada    (2011.10.10)

Of course Siri will work in Canada. Spoken Canadian English is American English. Now, French becomes another issue

The perils of being a man in ‘Straw Dogs’    (2011.10.10)

Melissa Lafsky: “The part [Alexander] Skarsgård plays here is Paragon Alpha, the man who can win on all fronts and serves as a boot in the ass to the socially softened hero. He evokes fear and respect in men while simultaneously compelling women to bang him”