As we all know, one of the joys of public bathrooms is sharing them with other people. My experience is that bathrooms in most white collar offices are relatively clean, but there are other bright shining moments.
Like when your neighbor grunts out every breath, and you have to try and time your exit to be sure that you don’t get to see who they are.
eXile #151 – Feature Story – 18 Ways to Hate Your Neighbour
When peace of a sort broke out over Russia, there wasn’t much in the way of alternative entertainment until the Spanish Civil War of the mid-30s. And even this wasn’t so much a real war as a diary competition with casualties.
SomaFM: Listener Supported, Commercial Free Internet Radio
One take on the version of HR5469, a bill that helps small webcasters (or does it).
News: Microsoft spying? Linux is looking better
China thinks Microsoft software contains secretly embedded code that the United States government can manipulate at will. So, in case of war between the two countries, a Pentagon official can hit a switch and–presto!–cripple China’s computing infrastructure.
This might seem absurd, why, after all, would Microsoft consent to such a thing, especially if it hurts them in a market with a billion nubile young consumers they lust for?
Its hard to imagine, but as a little exercise for the imagination, try and imagine what leverage the US government might have over them.