Month June 2003

Wheeee….! I bought a next gen cell phone today, the Nokia 3650. It does a mind-boggling number of things. There’s a built-in camera, built in video (yes video!) camera, plus two way text messaging. It has full email capabilities can send/receive…

New gen cell phones changing society The current generation of cell phones offer built-in cameras and two way text messaging – features which are already having varied, sometimes unusual, sometimes unsettling impacts on society. Here’s a few examples: The Howard…

Canada OKs gay marriage “The Canadian Cabinet on Tuesday approved a new national policy to open marriage to gay couples, which opens the way to making Canada the third country to allow same-sex unions.” Given that Canada also wants to…

The lunatics in the asylum From Arianna Huffington “Dr. Norman Doidge, professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, has identified among the telltale symptoms of fanatics: an intolerance of dissent, a doctrine that is riddled with contradictions, the belief…