This season, all hell breaks loose for the world’s largest retailer. A one-and-a-half year old union-backed group called Wake Up Wal-Mart is embarking on a PR offensive to point out Wal-Mart’s misdeeds to the general public. These include cutting costs by lowering wages and diminishing benefits like health care, exploiting illegal immigrants, discouraging unhealthy people… Read More »
Watched this segment on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 this morning where a guy named Tyson attempted to solve the Rubik’s Cube blindfolded on live television. While he didn’t manage to accomplish the feat (he’s got three cubes incorrect), I thought his memory and manoeuvring were pretty awesome. Here’s a video where he actually did it:… Read More »
Most language is spoken language, and most words, once they are uttered, vanish forever into the air. But such is not the case with language spoken during courtroom trials, for there exists an army of courtroom reporters whose job it is to take down and preserve every statement made during the proceedings. Mary Louise Gilman,… Read More »
Let’s see: A picture’s worth 1000 words. The average number of letters in a word is, say, six, including spaces. So a picture would need to compress down to under 6K to be worthwhile. Well, the picture on the left is well over the limit (click to enlarge), but it does say more than a… Read More »
With the recent spate of killings around the city of Ipswich in Suffolk county, perhaps the police may wish to check out this book on serial killers to better understand their mentality and modus operandi. Related story:Discovery of more bodies puts Suffolk force in firing line
A story is told of a man who lived in the East and whose job it was to get up very early every day and sound a steam whistle in order to wake the citizens up and get them off to work. Soon, he began to feel unwell. He wasn’t actually ill, he just felt… Read More »