Tag: culture
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Lots of Oddities, Some Real Stupidity, A Bit of Humor, and the Blackest Black
Apparently, the push yesterday to let the FCC know how we think they should rule on Net Neutrality once again crashed their website. So much so that at least one of the groups that was facilitating the electronic submissions just up and printed out the messages that didn’t get through and hand delivered them so…
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Piercing the Corporate Veil, A Study in Bayhem, Bubbles, Box of Pox, and Suddenly Poor
The Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case creep and speculation continue. Now there’s some rumblings among some who are supposedly more law-savvy than I am about this close bond between a corporation’s “religion” and the religion of the people who run it may be an exploitable tear in the corporate veil that protects those who run…
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Epic Rap Battles, Culture War, Yet More Problematic Politics, Some Interesting Decor, and the Requisite Number of Cat Posts
My sleeping and eating schedule this weekend was even more off from what most would consider “typical” than normal. But, that’s what I get for going out to an 80s mega dance party on Friday, partying with rock stars on Saturday, and spending most of Sunday recovering and trying (failing!) to get back on a…
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Blasts from the Past, Signal Knowledge, Private Police, Big Brother Buzz, and Just Some Darn Funny Stuff
Today did not start out well. The bus I normally catch to make it to work on time just plain didn’t show up. The second bus on that route–the one that will get me to work just a little late, as long as we don’t hit any long traffic lights–was late. Since that first bus…
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Innovation Squashed, Bigotry from the Bench, Hacking Hackers, Science Rap, and Work-life Balance
As I mention frequently (perhaps too frequently), my own natural flow doesn’t fit exceptionally well with the standard 40-hour work week setup. I’ve also said for years that we’ve become victims of our technology instead of masters of it. Instead of allowing our advancing technology to give us modest gains in both free time and productivity,…