Slava Kritov

10:06 pm - Inhumane job requirements lead to suicide

http://www.nrc.nl/international/Features/article2381535.ece/

"She now works at a call centre. "I am deeply unhappy. It is hell," she said."

Oh gawd, they ask them to make money !!!
Oh cruelty - oh despair !!!!

"France Telecom seems to have all the risk factors. Workers, often technically skilled, with a deep sense of their public mission, are now being asked to be commercial, flexible and market-oriented."

Aww, that is almost too much for me to bear:

"Vincent and her colleagues were sceptical. "We used to provide a service; now all we do is make money for the shareholders," said mechanic Erich Benn (55, 31 years with France Telecom). "We have become numbers, and it doesn't look like that's going to change."

Well well - considering 35 hours work week, great job security, two month vacations, free healthcare and education ...

Is there something rotten in EU kingdom ?

10:20 pm - russia today reports

http://www.infowars.com/gerald-celente-2-5-million-jobs-lost-since-obamas-presidency/

note that the interview is via skype

07:57 pm - How it all started

"Hoping to give Weigman a social network beyond the confines of his tiny bedroom, a friend had slipped him the number of a free party line known as Studio 55. The second Weigman called, a new world opened up to him. He heard voices. Some were talking to each other. Others piped in only occasionally, listening in as they watched TV or played video games. Weigman found he could decipher each and every ambient sound, no matter how soft or garbled. Many of the callers were social misfits and outcasts: ex-cons and bawdy chicks and unemployed guys with nothing better to do all day than talk shit to a bunch of complete strangers. People without a life. And that's when it hit Weigman: No one here could see each other. They were all just disembodied voices. "We're all blind right now," he announced to the group.

Weigman wasn't a freak anymore. But he was about to become a phreak."

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/29787673/the_boy_who_heard_too_much/print

examples of his work: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/06/blind-teenage-h/

09:34 am - canadian's eh

Professor Robert Smith? (the question mark is part of his surname and not a typographical mistake) and colleagues wrote: "We model a zombie attack using biological assumptions based on popular zombie movies.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8206280.stm

11:20 pm

"Тем, кто любит Петербург, вряд ли дорог разум.
Люди, кошки, фонари здесь собрались разом.
И меж небом и водой высится надменно
Город — каменный цветок, ядом напоенный..."

http://rowan.hole.ru/read.php?ord=lyr&song=madness.html

10:13 am

"Ever find yourself sitting down at the computer just for a second to find out what other movie you saw that actress in, only to look up and realize the search has led to an hour of Googling? Thank dopamine. Our internal sense of time is believed to be controlled by the dopamine system. People with hyperactivity disorder have a shortage of dopamine in their brains, which a recent study suggests may be at the root of the problem. For them even small stretches of time seem to drag. An article by Nicholas Carr in the Atlantic last year, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" speculates that our constant Internet scrolling is remodeling our brains to make it nearly impossible for us to give sustained attention to a long piece of writing. Like the lab rats, we keep hitting "enter" to get our next fix."

http://www.slate.com/default.aspx?id=2224932

10:10 pm - impressive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518XP8prwZo

more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uYne5ezkfw&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heMgid4rkzU&feature=related

its a pity its blocked in ukraine

01:19 am - use open standard, get sued

Suit: http://mashable.com/2009/08/12/word-patent/
Claimant: http://www.cnet.com/8301-19709_1-10308457-10.html?tag=rb_content;tabbedPromoUnitHolder

07:02 pm

"In The Cheating Culture, David Callahan illustrates that these ills of excessive competition and insecurity do not always end once one becomes established – by being awarded tenure or "partner" status – and therefore the "quarter-life crisis" may actually extend beyond young adulthood. Some measure of financial security – which usually requires occupational security – is necessary for psychological development. Some have theorized that insecurity in the "New Economy" will place many in a state of, effectively, perpetual adolescence, and that the rampant and competitive consumerism of the 1990s and 2000s indicates that this is already taking place."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter-life_crisis

03:29 pm - consumerism considered as means to be forever young

"In The Cheating Culture, David Callahan illustrates that these ills of excessive competition and insecurity do not always end once one becomes established – by being awarded tenure or "partner" status – and therefore the "quarter-life crisis" may actually extend beyond young adulthood. Some measure of financial security – which usually requires occupational security – is necessary for psychological development. Some have theorized that insecurity in the "New Economy" will place many in a state of, effectively, perpetual adolescence, and that the rampant and competitive consumerism of the 1990s and 2000s indicates that this is already taking place."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter-life_crisis

05:45 pm - Great thread

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9892y/if_we_were_to_marry_redditors_based_on_their_user/ names

12:28 am

Отсовокупись - beru na vooruzhenie

via http://lurkmore.ru/МПХ

11:58 pm

but is it better than flipping burgers ?

"To a casual observer, this all seems to happen in a single motion, a flurry of fingers. Employees are expected to perform this a minimum of 650 times an hour. Also, customers stuff things into the envelopes. Scribbled movie reviews, complaints, pictures of dogs and kids. That needs sorting too. After 65 minutes of inspection, a bell rings. Everyone stands up."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0804-netflixaug04,0,6424990.story

12:34 pm

11:45 am - Vot ty kakoj - severnyj olen

http://www1.techwayservices.com/about-eban/

09:37 am

" Фамилия реального Кости была Волосонакис, он был греком. Рыбачка Соня была замужем за его братом. Когда советская власть начала истреблять неугодные народы, Соня сдала всех греков, чтобы ее мужа не тронули. Потом греков реабилитировали, те, кто выжил в тюрьме, вернулись домой, а Соня с мужем сошли с ума. Это было в семидесятых, в городе Севастополе"

http://vero4ka.livejournal.com/622730.html

09:28 am

http://www.imeem.com/vero4ka/music/K91tgBff/misha-kozyrev-ladno/

10:16 pm - and now - to close this off

If I could vote I would say that this is the song right before the bomb hits
(link for 3 days only http://tempfile.ru/file/981911 search for http://yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=падающей+бомбы)


А в облаках летят, летят,
летят во все концы,
а в небесах свистят, свистят
безумные птенцы,
и белый свет, железный свист
я вижу из окна,
ах, Боже мой, как много птиц,
а жизнь всего одна.

Мой Арлекин чуть-чуть мудрец,
хотя простак на вид, --
нам скоро всем придет конец --
вот так он говорит,
мой Арлекин хитрец, простак,
привык к любым вещам,
он что-то ищет в небесах
и плачет по ночам.

10:12 pm - keep reading - and remembering

По всякой земле
балаганчик везу,
а что я видал на своем веку:
кусочек плоти бредет внизу,
кусочек металла летит наверху.

and may be military dreams will let me go

(c) ibid

10:01 pm - sometimes I dream of analytical engine

the one that would link the thoughts about fleur de mal, king (of hearts of course :) ) and September that is sweet as papirossen smoke ...

Поставь на стол в стакан букетик зла,
найди в толпе фигуру Короля,
забытых королей на свете тьма,
сейчас сентябрь, потом придет зима.

(c) http://lib.ru/BRODSKIJ/brodsky_poetry.txt