Archive for category: Best
Posts I’m particularly proud of
- Coop’s Pitoc (2009.11.07)
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What Anderson Cooper gets with his boyfriend Ben Maisani: A whole greater than the sum of its parts
- Xenolinguistics of ‘District 9’ (2009.08.25)
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Why didn’t the alien language work on District 9? Because we cannot conceive of what we cannot conceive
- Wheels EthicsWatch (2008.05.18)
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Is the Toronto Star Wheels section always up front about receiving free trips and four-star hotel accommodation in exchange for car reviews?
- Beautiful, useless (2007.12.31)
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Selectric, Betamax, Girl Power iMac
- Words/Lettering in/on/& Buildings/Architecture (2006.08.25)
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I am methodically reading every remotely plausible book on graphic design and typography that can be borrowed from the Toronto Public Library, the world’s largest such system, with 99 branches. (If you recently went looking for the only circulating copies of Eye, I’m the one who snagged them.) I am, further, ordering everything under the sun from other libraries via interlibrary loan, which fails about four-fifths of the time but is still worth a go.
Recently, I read the three classic treatises on words/lettering in/on/& buildings/architecture (for their titles are merely permutations of those words and you could generate your own): (more…)
- Stop fighting your distractions (2005.11.02)
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You were a procrastinator today and, when you get around to it, you’ll be a procrastinator tomorrow.
- Biggarçoons (sic) (2005.05.31)
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Would ‘Ratz Are Nice (PSP)’ violate WCAG 2?