7/9/2005
Apple Matters: The Mac Has Never Been User-Friendly
Apple Matters: The Mac Has Never Been User-Friendly
A mouse’s tail is at the bottom. 
Thats funny.
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Popularity: 11%
7/6/2005
AlterNet: A World Without Bosses?
Found on AlterNet:
A World Without Bosses?
A handful of Northern California collectives take cues from an innovative Basque cooperative in Northern Spain.
Between the $17+/hr wages these owner/employees and their per-hour profit-sharing bonus’ these guys are making $30/hr for working in a pizza shop (that’s $60K/yr). Everyone makes the dough, everyone works the counter and everyone has a vote in business decisions.
From a comment below the piece:
For far too long have we enabled the elite class by providing our labor in return for far too little control and minisicule economic return. A prime example of this is pay ratios: in hierarchical corporation pay ratios can get as high as 200 to 1 (executives and owners get 200 times as much pay as the people near the bottom of their hierarchy) ; whereas worker cooperatives consciously limit their pay range to usually a maximum range of 6 to 1, and more typically 1 to 1 or 2 to 1.
Do we really want to work 60 hours a week to fatten someone else’s wallet so much more than our own?
Popularity: 33%
7/5/2005
New Build of PimpCostumes.com / PlatinumCostumes.com
Over the weekend I pushed new builds of the ZenCart that runs the two current costumes sites:
This build is based on ZenCart 1.2.4d. It focused on upgrading to the latest version of ZenCart (at the time of starting). It also includes many search engine optimizations.
Check out some Google’s:
The sites are Google top ten for dozens of Pimp and Costumes related keywords.
Other new features include Super Orders Mod and a working Paypal IPN (last several versions of ZenCart Paypal IPN haven’t worked for us).
Popularity: 15%
7/4/2005
Girth of a Nation
NYT: Girth of a Nation
“Far too few Americans,” declares the center’s Web site, “remember that the Founding Fathers, authors of modern liberty, greatly enjoyed their food and drink. … Now it seems that food liberty - just one of the many important areas of personal choice fought for by the original American patriots - is constantly under attack.”
It sounds like a parody, but don’t laugh. These people are blocking efforts to help America’s children.
And they released this statement with a straight face?
Yes, they have every right to market these tasty products to us and our children. Technically, they have the right to lobby against bills that would hurt their bottom line. Like my momma always says, just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
Have some social responsibility guys.
I draw the line at financing advocacy groups to put out lies and false reports. They should’t have any right to that and should be held accountable for.
Popularity: 10%
