Not an Eulogy

There is a great giant that has fallen. For many it’ll be nameless, but for many more it already is a household name. The giant is a website, and its name is Isohunt.com Isohunt.com was the behemoth in the bittorrent sharing sites that has followed the now cliche rise-and-fall story of many websites and programs before it, from Napster and […]

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The White Night

It has been a long time coming to see one of the most populated events in the city of Toronto, Nuit Blanche, make some progress in actually being a night full of impressive art installations. The city’s favorite art crawl has really stepped it up a notch. Things were actually interesting for your humble servant. It was interesting to also […]

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I am a Belieber

So have you heard? An actor who is most famous for starring in a film about friends who wake up from a debaucherous bachelor party in Las Vegas feels like he needs to give Justin Bieber a lesson in proper etiquette… However, this is not what bothered me most. What bothered me about the story is that there’s still people […]

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Forgiveness is not great

Alexander Pope was once famously quoted as saying that “To err is human; to forgive, divine.” Forgive, but don’t forget. We have heard quotes like these throughout our lives. Many believe them to be the source of great wisdom. We are told that when we can forgive, we can let go of grudges and feelings of revenge and move on […]

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The Wrong Target

So there’s another meme out there on the internet which is set to outrage the world. It shows a number of popular Starbucks products and what scary ingredient each one of them has in order to shock and awe you that they dare to put propylene glycol in their apple fritters, for instance. It’s also worth noting that a quick […]

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About Syria

A reminder: there is no future in politics and government cannot be trusted to be effective in regards to anything. Neither of these facts should, however, be reasons to not have a morally correct opinion on an issue or a current event. Specifically, there are right ways and wrong ways to intervene in a country whose dictatorship is causing death […]

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