Archive for category: Updated

Updated posts

Sunfire misfire    (2013.03.10)

The Pontiac Sunfire, with the worst automotive front end since the Edsel, versus the Holden Commodore (Pontiac G8)

‘The Coach House way of doing things’    (2013.01.21)

What is “the Coach House way of doing things”? (I expect artisanal publishing to produce beautiful objects you will love to read)

MetaStupid    (2013.01.01)

A year-long hiatus from MetaFilter, where I am user 250 (1999), due to the entrenched stupidity of its intelligent and sophisticated owner and developer

Toronto journalists’ technical illiteracy made them late on a story by a full year    (2012.10.17)

Toronto journalists, a monoculture of a commentariat class, have a shared technical incompetence that made them a year late on the biggest journalism story of ’012

‘The network’    (2012.09.20)

James Bridle: The smartest young man in publishing constantly describes “the network.” Because to his social class, there is only one

Hart/Freeman/Simm    (2012.09.12)

The Hart/Freeman/Simm Axis, now with better pictures

“Jackie”    (2012.09.03)

Name two male singers who could and plausibly would cover “Jackie” (updated)

Baskerville, like lead in the bloodstream, makes smart people stupid    (2012.08.26)

Errol Morris gets basically everything wrong in his “test” that “proved” Baskerville was the most credible typeface. But don’t worry: My corrections here will not change anything

Lessons from the suicide of Kyle Scanlon    (2012.08.22)

Kyle Scanlon’s suicide cannot be disentangled from his transgenderism and endogenous depression, I claim (with 2017 update)