My current view on monogamy is neither here nor there. I outright reject the conventional notion of soulmates/one-true-love/lifelong monogamy/live-happily-ever-after/etc. I don’t think it’s impossible, I just think it’s exceedingly rare and we’re not biologically pre-disposed to it. But at the same…

In walks these three girls in nothing but bathing suits. I'm in the third check-out slot, with my back to the door, so I don't see them until they're over by the bread. The one that caught my eye first was the one in the plaid green two-piece. She was a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad…

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Many years ago, when I first started to work in the advertising industry, we used to have this thing called The Overnight Test. It worked like this: My creative partner Laurence and I would spend the day covering A2 sheets torn from layout pads with ideas for whatever project we were currently…

The morning was cold and the sky was bright. Aretha Franklin wore a large and interesting hat. Yo-Yo Ma urged his frozen fingers to play the cello, and the Reverend Joseph E. Lowery, a civil-rights comrade of Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s, read a benediction that began with “Lift Every Voice and Sing,”…

As I mentioned in my first post in this series , we dove into the App Store with a ($2.99) Productivity App called TouchBase Calender . It was a part-time effort as we were wrapping up other commitments, with the goal of learning about the App Store, getting up to speed on the iOS SDK and…

The Guy’s Guide To Being A Feminist Ally In Video Gaming By Alyssa Rosenberg One of the things I hear whenever I write about misogyny in video games is that there’s a silent majority of male gamers who are uncomfortable with the vicious sexism some of their counterparts deploy against women (and…

A male friend once pointed out something at the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market that I’d never noticed. It’s the cutest daughters of the Mennonite families who are out front manning the stalls. Maybe I didn’t notice because I’m a Mennonite daughter, too. Bottom line: sex sells, pretty much everywhere.…

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(Read this article as: PDF | ePub | Mobi) Jack is a 40-something insurance exec. Jack hates his job. And although he would never openly admit it, he loathes his wife of 22 years, Holly. They haven’t had sex more than a few times in the last three years and have been emotionally estranged far longer…

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Last week, Marcelo Somers wrote that when designing a product, you should begin with the experience, not the features it has. You should think primarily about what the product’s purpose is—that is, what is the high-level task in someone’s life that it accomplishes. Marcelo calls this what the…

In 13-plus years of writing about digital music all day, one of my favorite pieces remains “ 4 Reasons Music Needs One Big Database ,” which argues that all of these MP3 blogs, music subscriptions, tweets, videos, streaming radio services, and so on are talking about the same set of music: the one…

A Taste of Delhi: Chole Bhature Posted by on Sunday, January 8th, 2012 Tags for this Article: Breakfast , chickpeas , chole bhature , curry , Delhi , dinner party , Indian food , recipe , Vegetarian The vegetarian Punjabi dish chole bhature —curried chickpeas with fried bread—is one of the most…