Any way to sort each column differently in the Finder? Is there any way in the Finder to sort each column in column view by different criteria? When I select a sort order, it applies universally to every column.

For example, I would like to sort a particular folder by kind, but the contents of a subfolder of that folder by date.
There may be a third-party way to do this I haven't heard of, but there is no way to achieve what you want here using native OS X settings.