Are the American people obsolete?
Michael Lind argues that the American people have ceased to be a benefit to that country’s rich. In this Salon article, he goes so far as to say they may soon become a liability requiring export. That is, unless American corporations are forced to hire American workers or else risk losing their legal privileges.
Following Lind’s logic that only the lowest income immigrants are of use to America’s rich, one could conclude that it would be to their benefit that most Americans are pushed to that level. The rich and influential could achieve this by lowering education, health and living standards for the average American, effectively growing the class of servants to the rich.
Who am I kidding; that would never happen!
Posted on July 27th, 2010 in links - No Comments »
Design and Technology, Sitting in a Tree…
P.J. Onori from Adaptive Path on the tension that exists between designers (or user experience) and developers and how it can be overcome.
Posted on July 26th, 2010 in links - No Comments »
Celery – The Distributed Task Queue
“Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.
The execution units, called tasks, are executed concurrently on a single or more worker servers. Tasks can execute asynchronously (in the background) or synchronously (wait until ready).”
Posted on July 23rd, 2010 in links - No Comments »
Avoid 5 Grocery Rip-Offs – Read the Label
Diluted bleach, minimal levels of fruit in “Fruit Juice”, chickens plumped up with water and sodium, misleading container sizes, and fillers or faked foods are just 5 methods food manufacturers use to cheat you out of your cash, and your health.
Posted on July 23rd, 2010 in links - No Comments »
The Bechdel Test: Movie List [aka Bechdel-Wallace, Mo Movie Measure]
The Bechdel Test, named after 80s lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel, asks three questions: 1. Are there two or more women in it that have names? 2. Do they talk to each other? 3. Do they talk to each other about something other than a man? Sadly, many movies fail this simple test.
Posted on July 23rd, 2010 in links - No Comments »