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Summary: it isn’t.
Background: Most of my Google searches are for useful websites that I’ve visited in the past but have not bookmarked because I visit the site so rarely. These sites are often marked by Google Web History, which lets me know which results I’ve clicked on in the past. Ideally, this allows me to [...]

Calabash Music is like a world/indie equivalent of the iTunes Music Store. It’s good for the artists, because they get a 50% cut of sales (far better than the industry standard; they call it fair trade music), and it’s good for the consumers, because we get high-quality, DRM-free MP3 files that we can re-download at [...]

Recently I’ve been listening to bits of the Canadian House of Commons Question Period podcast. What’s the Question Period? It’s that special time of day where all the MPs get together to yell at each other: the Opposition MPs pretend to care about Canadians, and the Government MPs pretend that they’re actually doing something. Here’s [...]

It isn’t surprising that the UN does so little, but rather that it does anything at all.
Let’s take the example of the UN Human Rights Council. In the last session, they voted in basically two blocs: the 23-country majority that includes the Russian Federation; and the 10-country minority that includes Canada, Finland, and Switzerland. Anything [...]

I’m leaving for the conference in about a half hour and won’t be back in town until Tuesday night.