Apple’s $98 Billion Is Blood Money
There’s a lot of hand-waving around Apple’s use of sweat shop labour in China. Apple CEO Tim Cook is offended and outraged by the mere suggestion that Apple engages in…
Steve Jobs
An ugly and remarkable tale about iEmpire – Storyteller turned investigative journalist learns what happens in an Apple factory
What do you get when you combine a master storyteller and investigative journalist? Mike Daisey is one answer, a storyteller and performer whose story about what happens inside an Apple…
How the death of Steve Jobs could save Canadians
This originally appeared as a column in the November 3 print and online editions of the North Bay / Nippissing News, the weekly newspaper I’ve been writing for recently. I’ve…
Steve Jobs was no technological visionary; he was a disturbed and disturing individual
Limits of Magical Thinking Steve Jobs wasn’t a technology visionary, but he convinced the world that he was. Steve Jobs was a disturbed and disturing individual, and he was no…
Steve Jobs, LSD and Obama’s draconian drug policy
I did not know Steve Jobs had an affinity for LSD. I'll leave the debate whether it helped or hindered Jobs to another time. I can't see how it hurt.I'll…
Occupy the Church, Occupy Together
Christians. Church. God. Jesus. Occupy. What do these words mean to you? For many, the connotations are negative. Personal experiences with judgemental, rigid, frozen people who identify themselves as Christians…
Friday miscellany… dumbasses & the Ottawa Sun…
Woo hoo! Stevo has been denied that so-called trifecta that he dreamed about! The most laughable thing about this is that it was likely one of his fishing buddies, Rob…
Here’s To The Crazy One
Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 (graphic from EhMac)
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RIP Steve Jobs
Whatever your thoughts about Jobs, his company Apple or the products he shepherded into existence, Jobs was an innovator and a visionary. His kind is getting rarer and rarer to…
Steve Jobs’ Biggest Success: Sweatshops & Fat Salaries
The other day I mused on the simultaneous outpourings of sadness and loss over Jack Layton & Steve Jobs and what each of them represented. As I noted at the…
Jack Layton & Steve Jobs
I'm a tech nerd and a Mac Head, for sure. I have a Macbook Pro and an iPhone and we have an Apple TV. I'm almost embarrassed to say that…
Tim Cook becomes Apple CEO
Hailed by some as the "world's most powerful gay man," Tim Cook was announced Wednesday to replace Apple founder, Steve Jobs, as CEO of the American multinational corporation. Jobs is…