Harry Shannon
You have no doubt read about the ultra-lavish wedding of Jeff Bezos, the boss of Amazon. As one Toronto Star columnist wrote, it was "a filthy obscenity." His column was reproduced in the Hamilton Spectator.
I checked how much Bezos is worth. At least, that's how it's typically phrased, but of course it's not what people are ac…
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FAANGs or …?
Harry Shannon
A couple of weeks ago the Toronto Star had a story on the big tech companies Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google. The headline used an acronym to write: “Tech giants’ FAANGs sink teeth into our wallets.” (They also mentioned Microsoft, but I guess the acronym wouldn’t have worked.)
The story quoted a Univer…
Can you keep a secret?
Harry Shannon
26 February 2019
Well, can you? If so, you must be in a minority.
Go into a bookstore and check out the
non-fiction titles. To give you an idea
of what you’ll find, I typed ‘secret’ into Amazon’s website and looked at the
non-fiction books that were listed.
First up was 21 Metaphysical Secre…