This is a weird story on the NYT. Book sellers (such as Border’s) are beginning to offer publishing kits. “It’s easy to publish your own book!” the “Borders Personal Publishing” leaflets proclaim. Pay $4.99. Take home a kit. Send in your manuscript and $199. A month or so later, presto. Ten paperback copies of your […]
I need to get back into anime. Check out the trailer for this one, called Appleseed. Thanks to the Slashdot nerds for a BitTorrent link. Well worth the wait for this.
…goes to: Reuter’s Health section. Fitter men carry less weight around belly: study Link
I couldn’t resist doing this…. From Slashdot: Wired has up a story about HP, as part of a larger drive to figure out how ideas ideas (sic) ‘infect’ large groups of people, scientifically proving what most people already knew: bloggers steal their ideas from other bloggers. The article links to the HP Blog Epidemic Analyzer […]
Dr. Donald E. Simanek, Professor of Physics at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania is one smart guy. Plus he really likes to debunk (in great detail) myths of science and physics. Link
Song’s not that great, but this video is awesome! Link (via memepool)
Ted Waitt, CEO of Gateway (as in computers) is apparently one stand-up guy. Now, he’s been well compensated in the past I’m sure, so his reduction in pay is likely a large symbolic gesture. But how many other CEOs do you know that made less annually than a moderately-priced computer? Link
It happened today. No hard numbers yet, but so far three people (in our group of 11) have been let go… the people I hear about leaving are very surprising. This should be a productive day. UPDATE: Not official, but estimates are 60 locally and an additional 42 in the field. UPDATE: It’s official; 118 […]
This is a very lucid and thought=provoking look at the trend of offshore outsourcing. Will this really be the peak year for the trend? Link
One (poorly written) perspective on the outsourcing movement from someone who receives the “benefits” of the outsourcing. Company sends jobs to India; Company looses contract, but not for some high-minded morals. Link