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Category / Technology
How to Kill Company Morale With One Announcement
The Register: “Through a combination of layoffs, attrition and the sale of business units, Intel plans to trim its 102,500 person workforce down to 92,000 people by the middle of 2007. To reach the 92,000 figure, Intel will let go of 7,500 people by the end of this year and then another 3,000 people in 2007.”
It Took Three Days of Staring at an Inert Storefront Before Anything Exciting Happened
The Register: “An attempted burglary of a Liverpool sports store was foiled after a vulture-eyed viewer of a Beatles-related webcam alerted police.”
Cell Phones: Enabling Passive-Aggressivism One Text Message at a Time
An old girlfriend once broke up with me by text messaging me. I thought that was the coldest form of text messaging I had ever seen, but it turns out that I was wrong. Consider the case of Katy Tanner, who was fired from her job through text messaging. (via Cheryl Floyd-Miller)
Dave Winer to Migrate from Slackjawed to Head Exploding
Wired: “Diamonds are no longer a girl’s best friend, according to a new study that found three of four women would prefer a new plasma TV to a diamond necklace. The survey, commissioned by cable television’s Oxygen Network that is owned and operated by women, found the technology gender gap has virtually closed with the majority of women snapping up new technology and using it easily.”