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  • iPhone, iPad, iPeople

    I managed to play around with an iPad yesterday at the local geekfest (see also). It’s a beautiful little slab of glass. I won’t be getting one, for a while at least, because it excels mostly at content consumption, and I’m more about content creation. My laptop does that just fine. Then there’s the new…

  • Abortion

    I’m posting this for Women’s Writes, which Shine co-created and explains like so: “We’re thinking that it would be really awesome if, on April 5, 2010, we all posted on issues that affect women.” So let’s talk about abortion. This is a sensitive and divisive issue, but one that I have no strong opinions about.…

  • On Ann Coulter, Tolerance, and the Subjectivity of Morality

    Ann Coulter, the conservative political commentator from the U.S., recently made a visit to Canada. First she visited my fine school, UWO, to talk then avoid questions and make a few racial slurs. Then she tried to talk at Ottawa, but backed down when she discovered a shocking truth: people here don’t really like her.…