Three billion bases of a sequence can be put on a single compact disk, and one will be able to pull a CD out of one’s pocket and say “Here is a human being, it’s me.” (van Dijk 1998: 123)
As frightening as the above quote by the co-founder of the Human Genome Project sounds for […]
June 2005
Biotechnology and Power
Viacom Learns Small is the New Big
I’m going to devote this post to a very large news story that broke in the past few days that a lot of people have been talking about. And no, it’s not the verdict of the Michael Jackson trial.
Recently, Cineplex Galaxy LP here in Canada bought out its largest rival, Famous Players. (I […]
Copywriting: More Important Than You Thought
I had read this article by Jason Fried quite some time ago, and I just went back and read it again because of the importance of writing on the web. I remember when I first started out creating content for the web six years ago (yes, the six year anniversary for this blog in […]
Aga Khan Visits Canada
This past week, His Highness the Aga Khan was in Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver to inaugurate the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat, be conferred as a Companion of the Order of Canada, meet with Paul Martin and other government officials, and visit with the Ismaili community in Canada.
In her speech at the inauguration […]