Yeah, You Really Want This

Rogers Communications Inc. announced earlier this month that it will bring the iPhone to Canada on July 11 at the same prices as AT&T, but it will require customers to sign three-year contracts. The company sells a number of phones with the option of one-, two- or three-year contracts, where the shorter the deal is, the more the customer pays for the device up front. The iPhone, however, will be the only device with just the three-year option.

A spokesperson for Rogers declined to comment as to why Canadian customers will have longer contracts than their counterparts in other countries.

Then, not realizing that the microphone was still on, he muttered, “We᾿re going to jam it to those suckers SO HARD!!” and giggled like a girl.

Business as usual for Canadian cellphone subscribers. Why are we so hosed?

Black Music Month

Did you know that June is Black Music Month? Personally I think every month should be black music month, but just for June, here are some of the artists I'll be listening to:

• Herbie Hancock


• James Brown


• Stevie Wonder


• Prince


• Andy Palacio & the Garifuna Collective


• Vinx


• Aretha Franklin


• Parliament/Funkadelic


• The Bar-Kays


• Billy Preston


• The Temptations


• The Supremes


• Bootsy Collins


• Sly & the Family Stone


• Brothers Johnson


• Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers


• Otis Redding


• The Commodores


• Ohio Players


• Curtis Mayfield


• The O'Jays


• Miles Davis


• Earth Wind & Fire


• The Meters


• Erykah Badu


• The Fatback Band


• Me'Shell Ndegéocello


• Gap Band


• Marvin Gaye


• Mahlathini & the Mahotela Queens


• George Clinton


• Kool & the Gang


• Isaac Hayes


• Gap Band


• Graham Central Station