January 2010
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“You know American workers are in bad shape when a low-paying, no-benefits job is...”
– The Disposable Worker - BusinessWeek
This is definitely worth reading in full. Basically, temp jobs will become the norm, loyalty is disappearing and the average worker is getting increasingly screwed, and will continue to do so for the next decade or so at least.
What the article doesn’t...
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SAD experiment update
As I wrote last month, I am conducting an experiment on myself to determine whether a simple lack of vitamin D due to insufficient exposure to sunlight in this miserable Polish winter is causing the Seasonal Affective Disorder that has been a pain in my ass since I moved here.
I began the experiment over two weeks ago, on the 4th of January. I have been taking one dose of HASCO Vitaminium...
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Doc in the Machine: An e-play in five acts.
I will now show you how to waste countless hours in an activity that both kills time and makes you question your sanity. All you need is a Mac, Terminal, and the following hack. It goes without saying that as with everything, alcohol makes this better too.
Step one: Open Terminal.
Step two: When it has started up, type in “emacs” (without quotation marks) and press enter.
Step...
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His Dark Materials: Tolkien for intellectuals
After four straight days of spending all of my non-sleeping, non-working hours reading, I’ve finished the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. Those who enjoyed the Harry Potter books but found their morality too black and white, those who loved escaping to Tolkien’s world but found it too foreign, those who grew up on C.S. Lewis but now find him too preachy: you need to...
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Digital albums, vinyl made a comeback in '09 while... →
Why is this a surprise? This is exactly what I predicted last year, and will predict again - CDs are on their way out, and digital or digital + vinyl will become the new standard.
Why do people even buy CDs anymore?
With services such as Bandcamp or iTunes allowing you to download lossless .wav or .aiff files, there goes the argument of buying CDs for sound quality.
What’s that, you say -...