Due to some pressing work demands this week, posting on Nunc Scio will be light this week. I know this may seem annoying, but if I get fired for negligence I won’t be able to pay my DNS registration fees and Nunc Scio will disappear forever. So I view this as the lesser of two [...]
I came across this post at I Bike TO, and while I disagree with much of it (and I’m a bit suspicious of the author’s grasp of insurance and personal injury law in Ontario), it does fit into something I’ve been thinking about lately: should we require bicyclists in the city to have licenses? Now, [...]
Every beer commercial will at some point emphasize the product’s “rich tradition” or “time-honoured brewing techniques”. Beer, it seems, is only good if someone has been making it in one particular way for at least 150 years. If that be the case, then personal fave Dogfish Head Brewery has everyone beat. By a substantial margin. [...]
If you’ve been following the news out of the UK recently, you probably know that two members of the far-right racist douchebag British National Party were elected to the European Parliament. A depressing outcome precipated by a recession, political scandal, and historically low voter turnout. It’s unfortunate that, when things start going south, reason takes [...]
Sixty years ago, my boy George Orwell published his best known work, 1984. It’s a classic by any measure, a definitive work of dystopian fiction and one of the most sophisticated exploration of totalitarianism ever created. It’s also one of my favourite books. People – of all ideological stripes – are pretty quick t invoke [...]
My sister (aka “The Smart One”, aaka “The Good Child”, aaaka “Person who’s basement I will eventually live in, fulfilling my destiny as ‘Crazy Uncle Graeme’”) is graduating from law school tomorrow. She’s pretty cool, and we’re all very proud of her. And I’m happy to report that I have finally forgiven her for crashing [...]
A new study by the Harvard Business Review reveals some surprising (or maybe not) insights about everyone’s favourite over-hyped, potentially useless social media network, Twitter. Unlike almost every other social network, Twitter is dominated by a small cabal of self-absorbed men. This makes Twitter a lot more like, say, politics and professional sports than Facebook [...]