Photos from The Border Project, a group that gave cameras to Mexican border crossers and the Minutemen members trying to stop them.
Photos from the recent anti-war march and Anarchist Book Fair in San Francisco.
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
No Wonder They Wear Surgical Masks
Forbes has a list of the ten most polluted U.S. cities.
It also has the most polluted cities in the world. The top ten are in one country.
Guess which one.
It also has the most polluted cities in the world. The top ten are in one country.
Guess which one.
Milano Addicts Beware
This is one boycott that will not work.
You can ask people to give up a lot of things, but not Pepperidge Farm and Oreos.
You can ask people to give up a lot of things, but not Pepperidge Farm and Oreos.
Geeks Go Third World
Now techies have their version of The Peace Corps.
The Geek Corps takes technological skills to Third World nations.
I wonder what Graham Greene would have made of this.
The Geek Corps takes technological skills to Third World nations.
I wonder what Graham Greene would have made of this.
Yuma
A long day. Had rain leaving Phoenix. It cleared up by Buckeye and Gila Bend and then it was prime desert driving. Little traffic.
A Harrier jet was landing at the Yuma Marine Air Station as I drove by. Fascinating airplanes.
On the radio: Reports that the Minutemen group is going back to the border. The governor has already ordered the National Guard down there. This should be interesting.
A Harrier jet was landing at the Yuma Marine Air Station as I drove by. Fascinating airplanes.
On the radio: Reports that the Minutemen group is going back to the border. The governor has already ordered the National Guard down there. This should be interesting.
Myths of Management
A couple of pretty savvy management profs lists the five myths of management.
An excerpt:
But wait. Why are businesses so determined to keep work and life separate? There is certainly plenty of evidence that companies willing to gray the line between work and play aren't suffering as a result. Google, for example, asks employees to spend 70 percent of their time on the company's core business, then gives workers the remaining 30 percent to work on other projects related to new business--something akin to what they would do for fun. Does it work? The proof may be in the pudding. Out of this "free time" Google News, Google Earth, and Google Local have emerged.
Southwest Airlines has gone a step further--tossing the old maxim about intraoffice relationships to the wind. About 2,200 of the 32,000 employees at the company are married to someone at Southwest. "We've talked to our employees from Day 1 about being one big family," Colleen Barrett, the company's president, told the authors. "If you stop and think about it for even 20 seconds, the things we do are things you would do with your own family." Southwest sends birthday cards and letters of congratulation on the anniversary of each employee's hire. The company acknowledges when employees' children are sick or when there has been a death in the family. And the message seems to be getting through: One study of the major carriers in the U.S. airline industry found that Southwest employees did, in fact, talk about the company as if it were an extension of their family. They use "we" to describe their employer. Southwest attracts 30 or more applicants for every job opening. Driving a wedge between work and life is a fool's errand, says Pfeffer. "The idea that you can separate those two is just impossible." The more companies that realize it, the sooner work won't have to be a four-letter word.
An excerpt:
But wait. Why are businesses so determined to keep work and life separate? There is certainly plenty of evidence that companies willing to gray the line between work and play aren't suffering as a result. Google, for example, asks employees to spend 70 percent of their time on the company's core business, then gives workers the remaining 30 percent to work on other projects related to new business--something akin to what they would do for fun. Does it work? The proof may be in the pudding. Out of this "free time" Google News, Google Earth, and Google Local have emerged.
Southwest Airlines has gone a step further--tossing the old maxim about intraoffice relationships to the wind. About 2,200 of the 32,000 employees at the company are married to someone at Southwest. "We've talked to our employees from Day 1 about being one big family," Colleen Barrett, the company's president, told the authors. "If you stop and think about it for even 20 seconds, the things we do are things you would do with your own family." Southwest sends birthday cards and letters of congratulation on the anniversary of each employee's hire. The company acknowledges when employees' children are sick or when there has been a death in the family. And the message seems to be getting through: One study of the major carriers in the U.S. airline industry found that Southwest employees did, in fact, talk about the company as if it were an extension of their family. They use "we" to describe their employer. Southwest attracts 30 or more applicants for every job opening. Driving a wedge between work and life is a fool's errand, says Pfeffer. "The idea that you can separate those two is just impossible." The more companies that realize it, the sooner work won't have to be a four-letter word.
Very UnHollywood
Dennis Prager has written the acceptance speech that he wishes someone had delivered at the Academy Awards ceremony.
An excerpt:
At the same time, I also want to apologize to these troops for my profession not having made even one motion picture about any of the heroic American fighters in Afghanistan and Iraq. This country is fighting a war, Hollywood. You may think this war is unwise, waged under mistaken, or even false, pretenses. And as an actor in Hollywood, you are overwhelmingly likely to hate this commander in chief. But even the men and women of Hollywood must recognize that America is fighting the worst people of our time, people who hurt every group Hollywood claims to care about -- minorities, women, gays -- people who engage in the sins Hollywood most professes to oppose -- intolerance and violence -- far more than anyone else on the planet.
In another era, when what many have labeled "the greatest generation" fought the German Nazis and the Japanese fascists, Hollywood made movie after movie depicting that great war and our great warriors. And Hollywood showed freedom's enemies as the cruel and vicious people they were. We have not produced one film yet depicting this war in positive terms or one depicting this generation's enemies of freedom as the cruel and vicious people they are.
An excerpt:
At the same time, I also want to apologize to these troops for my profession not having made even one motion picture about any of the heroic American fighters in Afghanistan and Iraq. This country is fighting a war, Hollywood. You may think this war is unwise, waged under mistaken, or even false, pretenses. And as an actor in Hollywood, you are overwhelmingly likely to hate this commander in chief. But even the men and women of Hollywood must recognize that America is fighting the worst people of our time, people who hurt every group Hollywood claims to care about -- minorities, women, gays -- people who engage in the sins Hollywood most professes to oppose -- intolerance and violence -- far more than anyone else on the planet.
In another era, when what many have labeled "the greatest generation" fought the German Nazis and the Japanese fascists, Hollywood made movie after movie depicting that great war and our great warriors. And Hollywood showed freedom's enemies as the cruel and vicious people they were. We have not produced one film yet depicting this war in positive terms or one depicting this generation's enemies of freedom as the cruel and vicious people they are.
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