If you lived here and had a degree in the library arts, here's what you'd make

DOL WHD: Minimum Wage Laws in the States

Why constant complaining about a bad job makes it worse

Top 10 reasons why constant complaining is so toxic in the workplace

Where the real infrastructure failings are

While holding great reverence for those who were killed or injured in the Minneapolis bridge collapse, let's not forget the many thousands who die each year because of the lack of preventative health care. Last year, during my annual physical, my doctor noticed a mole that looked suspicious. It turned out to be malignant melanoma. I had the malignancy removed and now have follow-up inspections twice yearly. Without a good health plan, it's doubtful that any of that could have happened in time.
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Overheard in the Office | When Good Deeds Become Career-Limiting

Overheard in the Office | When Good Deeds Become Career-Limiting

Wet, wild, and wonderful

Here are the photos from our whitewater rafting trip in celebration of Sandra's birthday last Friday.

Great Googly Moogly

My Way News - Berlin Names Street After Frank Zappa

BTW, the title comes from one of FZ's tunes. See this article for more info.

Pope to world:i m n ur fone

Archdiocese Offers Daily Text Messages From The Pope - The Huffington Post

Monster to Cut 800 Jobs

As the folks at Fark.com noted, wouldn't it be nice if there was an online service where out-of-work people could post their resumes
Monster to Cut 800 Jobs; 2nd-Quarter Profit Drops.

In case you didn't know, ...

Howstuffworks "How Swearing Works"

Is there anything that the intertubes can't do?

I guess that it's a good idea that the Massachusetts house voted to outlaw Internet hunting (Mass. House Votes To Ban Internet Hunting - News Story - WCVB Boston), but I also have to give a tip of the hat to the folks who figured out how to do this. It's no small accomplishment that they'd be able to set up guns and cameras in places where people would find something to hunt, hook that apparatus to a web application, and let people hunt from the comfort of their own homes.

Note: I spent a few minutes looking around for a site that offered this service, but wasn't able to find one. It looks as though some of the sites that might be gateways are using IP filtering to block access from certain geographical regions. It's not worth the additional time to dig deeper.

MilkandCookies - George Carlin: Who owns you?

Those of you who didn't know friend Don - think George Carlin. Sometimes, he was really funny. Sometimes, he was really serious and even scary. And, one time, Don burned so hot that he burned himself up.

It's ok to be dorks, but do we have to bring our dogs into it?

Techie Diva's Guide to Gadgets : Transform Your Dog Into a Walking Jukebox

Dept. of Copy Editing. - Show me the way to go home

From the The Scout Report -- July 27, 2007, a part of the Internet Scout Project:

1. Open Architecture Network [Macromedia Flash Player, pdf]
http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org/

The Open Architecture Network site starts things off with a bold and
passionate statement: “Le Corbusier had it all wrong”. It’s definitely a
good way to get visitors’ attention upon entering the site. The Network is
an online, open source community which seeks to improve living conditions
through innovative and sustainable design. On the site, visitors can share
their design ideas and plans, review and comment on posted designs, and also
collaborate with each other. Visitors will no doubt get exited about the
“Projects” section, which is both intellectually stimulating and well-
designed. Visitors can search the projects by status, region, location, or
theme, or they can also perform a keyword search as well. There are some
wonderful finds here, including a childcare school in Sri Lanka, a day
laborer shelter, and a “Doc-in-a-Box”, which is meant to serve as a mobile
health care center. [KMG]

Happy Birthday, Sandra

We hope you'll enjoy your day of whitewater rafting.

YouTube - Helsinki Complaints Choir

Eight-and-a-half minutes of complaints in Finnish. (But, they have subtitles.)

YouTube - Helsinki Complaints Choir

Project Cartoon: How Projects Really Work (version 1.5)

In case you wondered, ...
Project Cartoon: How Projects Really Work (version 1.5)

Careers: If Only You Could Work Here

Satchel Paige often said, "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." This Fast Company story, with the embedded video, pretty much fills up the rear-view mirror with a different way of looking at work.

Careers: If Only You Could Work Here

I wonder if the new edition of Framemaker will include a grammar checker

-from the Adobe Technical Communication blog

Aerosmith on PEI

54 arrested at P.E.I. concert featuring Aerosmith: "the concert could be the largest single-day event in the Island's history,"

152 - A Map of the Truelove River « strange maps

The course of true love is rarely direct and smooth, but the trials are well worth it.

152 - A Map of the Truelove River « strange maps