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Freakonomics of child restraints    (2010.03.29)

What Levitt and Dubner write in Freakonomics about child restraints just is not accurate or specific enough

Gerry Leonidas’s sermon from the mount    (2010.03.29)

Gerry Leonidas (airily): “To paraphrase Goudy, the problem is not… that the old-timers stole all the best ideas, but that the old ideas are in danger of being rediscovered from scratch”

Thu, Mar 25 on Church St, hell froze over    (2010.03.28)

Xtra finally experiences a hot-beef-injection-like influx of italics

Graphic design, mishmashed    (2010.03.18)

Not only is Graphic Design, Referenced disorganized, it’s barely written in English sometimes. (But love the hand-sketched illos)

Freelancers as panhandlers    (2010.03.16)

While I’m waiting for tens of thousands of dollars in a copyright-infringement settlement (now delayed), I’m pitching again for contributions to The Cranky Copyright Book. But there’s a payoff: The book is going to be published

‘Typical teens, Stockholm’    (2010.03.14)

Scott Schuman takes a delightful fashion photograph of two ladies whose progeny may take over Sweden

‘How to Find an Agent for Your Nonfiction Book’ (sic)    (2010.03.12)

Some guy sold a book by querying an agent, and that guy’s friend treated it as news. And that sums up the future of publishing right there

When Creative Commons accomplishes nothing    (2010.03.11)

John Hilton III wrote an article claiming Creative Commons makes more derivative works possible. And on that score, he is quite wrong

Misdefinition of ‘visible minority’    (2010.03.11)

Did you know that projections show whites will be the minority in Toronto in 2036? Well, only if you’re a racist, or the Toronto Star