Archive for April, 2006
Drive-through Call Centers
From The New York Times:
“Like many American teenagers, Julissa Vargas, 17, has a minimum-wage job in the fast-food industry — but hers has an unusual geographic reach.
“Would you like your Coke and orange juice medium or large?” Ms. Vargas said into her headset to an unseen woman who was ordering breakfast from a drive-through line. [...]
Interesting looking documentary
An Inconvenient Truth - Eloquently weaves the science of global warming with Al Gore’s personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change. A longtime advocate for the environment, Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way. The film is not a story of [...]
Like flies on crazy…
From Reuters:
“Long ago, astronauts from outer space visited earth to lay the foundations for human civilization, Erich von Daeniken says.
Now, the Swiss writer and businessman hopes for a visitor wealthy enough to save his Mystery Park theme park in Interlaken from financial collapse.
The park, set up by the author of bestsellers such as “Chariots of [...]
How-To: Rackmount your gear for cheap - Engadget
Our simple network rack is an easy project that can really clean up a home network installation. Just a few square feet of floor space now keeps our cable modem firewall, Ethernet switch, server, wireless AP, KVM, monitor, keyboard and UPS neatly tucked away — in a (decently well ventilated) closet, for example. It’s also [...]
What comics guys talk about over dinner.
From Wired - Subscribe to the Wired Blog via Blog Buzz Machine:
‘Around midnight, in a Japanese bar in New York’s East Village, the science fiction writer Neil Gaiman is pouring himself a shot of sake. It’s the table’s second bottle, part of a dinner that got started late because nearly every one of the 400 [...]
Shivers down my spine
From The New Yorker:
‘The attention given to the nuclear option has created serious misgivings inside the offices of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he added, and some officers have talked about resigning. Late this winter, the Joint Chiefs of Staff sought to remove the nuclear option from the evolving war plans for Iran—without success, the [...]
Just Wonderful
From the BBC:
“President Bush authorised the leak of secret intelligence to the New York Times to help defend the war in Iraq, a former top White House aide has said.
The claim comes from Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former chief-of-staff to Vice-President Dick Cheney. Mr Libby is facing trial for allegedly obstructing an investigation into a [...]
The appeal of a blue screen of death on a Mac
From the BBC:
“Apple moves to widen Mac appeal
Boot Camp, a new utility released by Apple, makes it easy for anybody to install Windows XP on to a new Mac.
It will not work on the older G5 and G4 Macs, but it opens a whole new world of compatibility to anybody with a Mac running one [...]
