Current mood: 
via popurls
How to Make OpenCola (via del.icio.us)– yeah, but where do you buy the ingredients on this list? Does my supermarket carry gum arabic? What aisle?
20 Productive Ways To Use Your Free Time — I enjoy clearing my desk to decompress. This is a nice list of things to do in short amounts of time so you can have more “real” time off later. Swizz.
Why the 9 to 5 Office Worker Will Become a Thing of the Past– totally. 9-5 is so old school. Sorry, it is. I’ve been thinking about how the 8 hr work day is dying for a while now… it just makes sense to work when your most creative. And it’s cheaper and totally viable to work at home now too since the internet has gotten so pimp! I would add that the employeer likes to be the “controller” and they can control more when they can see you more…
All New Technorati: No Longer Blog-Centric (via tailrank) — I’m really digging the new layout so far! I like how the search results pull up blogs, video and photos all on one page! Still, no one from the “real world” ever knows what the hell technorati is when I mention it. Whatevs.
10 Ways to Get a Grip on Your Email (via digg) — training for emailing? Some of these tips are pretty good … I’ll give it some extra thought when I cc people in the future. I think I over cc… fuck!
Wow, I’ve been linked to by a real live internet celebrity.
Keep up the great video work.
I agree; managers like having their employees within arms reach. Of course, one solution (implied in the comments of the original post) is to introduce democracy and equal profit-sharing in the firm.
9-5 is *very* old school. Like, 1930s old school. And while I’m all about reducing the workday, I don’t think that the 40-50 hour week will go away for even some of the white collar workforce, let alone the rest of the working population (including manual & service labor, from landscaping to flipping burgers to stocking shelves). Despite a few encouraging signs, the big-picture trend continues to be that 1) inflation-adjusted, we’re getting paid less and less, and 2) we’re being more “productive” yet still working longer and longer hours.
The average employee is about twice as productive has s/he was in the late 1960s. Why aren’t we working half as much? Why isn’t that an option, and who made that decision (did I miss that vote? heh)? Because there by definition can’t be any homeostasis in our economy (it has to keep growing — forever), there’s an eternal push toward more productivity, more output. What’s easier: investing in new equipment and/or managerial structures, or simply extending the workweek? For as long as I can remember, management has favored the latter, from instituting mandatory overtime to cutting lunch breaks and vacation days. It’s only through the historically hard, dangerous work of unions (often in the face of billy clubs and Pinkerton gangs) and the occasional bit of Congressional legislation that 10/12 hour day, six-day workweeks aren’t the norm.
That history is instructive: we’re going to have to fight tooth and nail, together, to reduce the workday and reclaim another inch of our lives from the office (or factory, or Burger King, or hacienda).
[end rant]
Hi Amanda,
Actually, it is interesting and distressing to me how many people have not seen Technorati, or Revver, or Grouper, even in the Bay Area!
How’s ABC treating you?
Zennie
Those 20 ways to use your free time rocks Amanda, I already do a few of them, sweet.
The soda link was neat too, but the warnings towards the bottom of the page were just way out there for me to ever think about trying to make my own cola. I’m playing with these little facees you have for the comments not sure which to end with, hmm how about this one. 