Valentine's Day

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Where does the iPad fit?

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Too many people are comparing the iPad to other pieces of hardware. A nice comparing would be to the upcoming HP Slate or Lenovo Ideapad U1, but often fanboys compare it to the Kindle, Amazon's e-reader. Is that really a fair comparison to make? The Kindle is an e-reader, it has a very basic internet browser, ...

Haitian Refugees in Florida

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There's an online petition titled "Please no Haitian refugees in Florida" which I spotted on reddit today. When I went to it, it was at 444 signatures, and lucky #444 read as follows:   As a Jamaican who came here. I first want to say thank you America. However, it comes a time when we must ...

Helping earthquake victims in Haiti

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The most important things you want to keep in mind: Send money, not stuff Donate to trustworthy organizations that have a good track record with working in Haiti, or across the world, such as Partners In Health, CARE, Doctors Without Borders and DirectRelief International. Red Cross spends around 6 to 7% of its money on "administrative ...

The absurd hilarity of racism

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I had posted a link to a Maine Free State blog today regarding "liberal racism". Some people mistook my intention in posting it. My intention was to point out the utter, completely absurd hilarity of this 'partisan ownership' of racism we have going on in this country, and how everyone is always trying to smear the ...

The internet isn't that mad...I hope

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From this NY Times article: “It’s as if culture froze just before it became digitally open, and all we can do now is mine the past like salvagers picking over a garbage dump,” Mr. Lanier writes. Or, to use another of his grim metaphors: “Creative people — the new peasants — come to resemble animals converging ...