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‘We, the Web Kids’ vs. ‘The IRL Fetish’    (2012.09.14)

You have never been more conscious of your offline life in your entire offline life

‘The Gentrification of the Mind’    (2012.09.10)

When not inveighing against racist, elite white gay men, Sarah Schulman provides novel and useful analysis of “gentrification,” literature, gay men, AIDS, and more in The Gentrification of the Mind

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)

Khoi Vinh: We were too stupid to charge for Mixel, and, unlike Instagram, nobody bought us out    (2012.08.08)

Khoi Vinh is shitcanning Mixel. Why didn’t he simply charge for it all along?

This is how lousy Android accessibility is    (2012.08.05)

A couple of Android devices, running the rarely-seen current version of the operating system, kind of support accessibility. How well? About as well as you’d expect

Correcting John Barber    (2012.07.31)

Globe and Mail publishing reporter John Barber allowed a serious factual error to creep into an article about the future of professional writers. But the Globe itself darkened that future

Type size on the AIDS Memorial    (2012.07.30)

Yes, the type size on the AIDS Memorial was reduced at one point, but “teeny tiny” it isn’t

Rich man, poor man, beggar man, bobsledder    (2012.06.21)

Chris Spring has ever so much trouble buying a house, while Nic Carrière can barely stay awake through full-time work and training