Enemy of Entropy

Friday Frippery

23 November 2007, 11:24 pm. 2 Comments. Filed under Links, News.

This post is almost as ran­dom as my read­ing has been today. I’m spar­ing you excerpts from the fic­tion and school read­ing, at least!

The No Asshole Rule
After read­ing this arti­cle, Deal­ing With the Jerk at Work, I find myself want­ing to read Robert I. Sutton’s book The No Ass­hole Rule: Build­ing a Civ­i­lized Work­place and Sur­viv­ing One That Isn’t. We’ve had a “no ass­hole rule” here at home ever since Sam and I blended our fam­i­lies in 1998, and it makes for a very pleas­ant envi­ron­ment. I’m in total agree­ment with the author that “jerks should be treated as incom­pe­tent employ­ees.” Get­ting along with your cowork­ers is an impor­tant part of every person’s job.

Huh? Chris Bro­gan reports that Face­book showed him boo­bies. I know they’re ad-​​supported, but hello, that’s the clue phone ring­ing! Maybe they didn’t real­ize that they’re sup­posed to be classier than MySpace? That really didn’t seem to be a hard thing to accom­plish, con­sid­er­ing the ram­pant trashi­ness on that other site.

A bril­liant school in Penn­syl­va­nia has sus­pended two stu­dents for the hor­rific offense of mak­ing an anti-​​drug-​​use pub­lic ser­vice announce­ment. Be care­ful with those dan­ger­ous Smar­ties, guys!

I bet you didn’t learn this in school, either. Accord­ing to John Stos­sel, the first Thanks­giv­ing wouldn’t have occurred at all if the Puri­tans hadn’t given up on their ini­tial Social­ist prac­tices in favor of a plan wherein each fam­ily farmed its own plot of corn. I’m not sure that refer­ring to the “tragedy of the com­mons” is apt, but it is an inter­est­ing bit of information.

Also from ABC comes a story about the grand­moth­ers who hold the Guin­ness records for the world’s longest nails and the world’s small­est waist. Turn off your images if you’re eas­ily squicked before going to the arti­cle, though. That woman’s nails are truly dis­gust­ing (and appar­ently, the Guin­ness folks agree with me). The waist thing just looks pho­to­shopped to me, as my brain chooses not to process it as reality.

Do blondes make men dumber? Accord­ing to sci­en­tists study­ing the “bimbo delu­sion,” that is the case.

There it is. I take no respon­si­bil­ity for what you do with it.

2 Comments »

  1. avatar Sam Chupp. 24 November 2007, 12:41 pm

    Moira Gunn did a pod­cast inter­view with Robert Sut­ton, the link is here:

  2. avatar cyn. 24 November 2007, 5:02 pm

    Thanks, sugar!

 

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