I remember when the internet became available to me quite well. In those early days we still had to use dial-up modems and browsing the internet was a slow process. The entire experience was sometimes absurdly frustrating but even way back then we knew that this was going to change the world in ways that we couldn’t…

I see a lot of posts online urging people to stop doing one thing or another. I see slightly less posts urging people to start doing something else. While the intent of these posts are certainly to be applauded, I wonder if we’re focusing too much on narrow solutions to complicated problems. In the real world problems…

We, as people, tend to use a lot of incorrect language. I'm not talking about grammar or spelling or even "bad" words here. I'm talking about something more generalized. We use a lot of shorthand for things that we shouldn't and it causes a lot of confusion about what we're really referring to. We generalize as a way…

The recent discussion in the media and social networks concerning the RFRA laws has raised an interesting question. The concept of tolerance has been brought up as one of the core principles that these laws are meant to address and several commenters have suggested that tolerance must inherently be a two way street.…