Music Industry, R.I.P.; Workers slack back; No-headphones; Chris on 43f; City babies; New 5ives; Crab!!!
Submitted by Merlin on October 9, 2007 - 9:44am.
- The day the music industry died - Times Online - “The truth now is that a rudimentary cotton garment with a band logo stamped across it that has probably been manufactured for pennies in a Third World sweatshop costs about twice as much as an album recorded in a state-of-the-art western studio.” Related, don’t miss Yahoo!’s Ian Rogers’s post “Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses”
- Abused Workers Fight Back by Slacking Off | LiveScience - “Employees toiling under an abusive supervisor often rebel quietly and indirectly by slacking off on the job and handing in sloppy work.”
- What’s next, no potty breaks? [AskMe] - “My company just instituted a “no headphones” policy…how can I deal?” I don’t know how you can expect someone to do a data-entry job without headphones. That’s just inhuman.
- 43 Folders [Chris Glass] [PNSFW] - “Backstory: Merlin and I met years ago when we were teenage girls on LiveJournal.” Chris Glass talks a bit about he ended up redesigning 43f. Love that guy.
- HollenbackNet - BigCityBaby - If you hadn’t put the pieces together yet, I’m about to need advice like Phil’s. And, wow!, did I ever dig his long article on big-city baby-having.
- You Tube - Inbox Zero - My Google Tech Talk on Inbox Zero is now available on the YouTube — previously it was only on the Google Video (now clocking in at 186,000 views)
- Five rejected Spice Girl personalities - “5. Emotionally-Unavailable Spice.” A long overdue 5ives update. One of three.
- I’m not usually one to get squeamish, but this wigged me… (kottke.org) - I’m not too squeamish either, Mr. Kottke, but this bastard crab is literally haunting my dreams. Dear Lord.
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Also known as the 'Robber Baby"... :-)
There’s two things people tend to not cover in mentioning first baby.
1. Your IQ drops about 10 points per kid. This is just a fact of life, after about three you stop noticing and it’s kind of pleasant really.
2. And now there’s one kid in the house, the entire planet will start (almost immediately) with ‘ah, you’ll go again…’. And going again is pretty good in all, they have a playmate etc. But what you have to watch out for is when they outnumber you…If you go more than two… that’s the biggie, there’s three of them and you and Mom are easier to back into a corner.
But hey, having three in any major metropolitan area is probably against several city ordinances, so you’re probably good there.
Oh there’s one more thing….
You’re never going to be more in love in your life….