- The New Blue Collar: Temporary Work, Lasting Poverty And The American Warehouse
Further reasons to give Walmart a wide berth. I know they’re not the only ones doing this, but I can’t recall any other modern American company that’s been so actively hostile towards its own workforce.
- Best LED Lightbulb | The Wirecutter
A promising new LED light from Philips. I’ll have to see if I can find some locally.
Author: Harold
Delicious Links for 2012-03-24
- Как сделать бесконечный источник энергии – YouTube
Nicely done fake video for “perpetual energy”.
- Pizza Roulette
A pizzeria in New Zealand plays roulette with their customers, dousing one slice per pizza with liquid pepper sauce.
- Mozilla’s Big Plans for Tracking Who Tracks You Online – Businessweek
A nifty visualization tool for the various trackers that follow you around the web. My map isn’t nearly as impressive as the ones in the article, but I think that’s due to my use of NoScript and ShareMeNot.
- Fight to the death. – Imgur
A funny pronouncement from a theater showing the opening of “The Hunger Games” movie.
Writer’s Block: The Hunger Games
As a kid I would have loved to have seen an adaptation of Diane Duane’s So You Want to Be a Wizard. As an adult I’m afraid it would have gotten so screwed up, especially back in the late eighties and early nineties.
Now, I think I’d still be tickled to see an adaptation of Bunnicula or The Westing Game, although I think the latter would be better as a mini-series.
Writer’s Block: Time is (not) on My Side
I know it’s cliched, but my worst wait was probably at an airport. I think it was something like 90 minutes to get to the ticketing counter and another 45 minutes to get through security. And this was months prior to 9-11.
Writer’s Block: The Fifth Dimension
Oooh, that’s a tough one. All the fictional worlds that are fun to read about would be frickin’ terrifying to live in, or even visit. I suppose if I had to pick a place to live, it’d be the world of Alexander McCall Smith’s novels.
Delicious Links for 2012-03-20
- 3D-printed adapter bricks allow interconnection between ten kids’ construction toys – Boing Boing
Son of a bitch! Gill and I had this idea a few months ago.
- BBC News – Woman considers hand removal for bionic replacement
I keep having to remind myself that we live in the future now.
- Hitler had son with French teen – Telegraph
“Mom, what can you tell me about dad?”
- Rolling in the deep 古筝版.flv – YouTube
Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” on a traditional Chinese zither, the guzheng.
Writer’s Block: Wear This, Not That
Having taken costume history I know that the answer is nothing. There is not a single piece of clothing that hasn’t gone out of style, or changed form so radically that it’s unrecognizable after a few generations.
Delicious Links for 2012-03-18
- the scream of the butterfly: had to get this out of my system
Sesame Street/ Sherlock mash-up.
Writer’s Block: Dear God
Why?
Writer’s Block: Kiss me, I’m Irish!
I spent the majority of the day at work.