So, this is a really cool presentation, but the subject matter is cool too.
Watch it :-D.
November 2005 Archives
So most of my progressive friends hate Wal-Mart because it's evil.
But really, it does have some good effects, as noted here.
And it's only monday.
Mmm... Blue.
This is really absurd. It's interesting that no credible American news agencies covered the story. Is it because it's stupid? The woman interviewed in the article sounds pretty nutty.
I need to go look at this at some point... Right now it seems like a good idea to shutdown/restart my mac about once a week. Some system process has a cpu/memory leak. I'm not sure if it was fixed in 10.4.3.
When I used to work for the Gap I sometimes faced criticism from my more left-leaning friends because of Gap's overseas sourcing. The typical criticism was some generic statement about using third-world labor, sweat shops etc. I often tried to defend the Gap, partially because I worked for them, but also because I believed that they were trying to do the right thing. Every company is going to have problems when it works with third world suppliers, but I think the Gap does an amazing job of being socially responsible.
More information about how the Gap really is socially responsible is here.
iro·ny
Pronunciation: 'I-r&-nE also 'I(-&)r-nE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -nies
Etymology: Latin ironia, from Greek eirOnia, from eirOn dissembler
1 : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning -- called also Socratic irony
2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony c : an ironic expression or utterance
3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity b : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play -- called also dramatic irony, tragic irony
I hate them. I hate them when they bark at 7am. I particularly hate it when they bark for half an hour at 7am. Argh. Sleepy Jonah.
