Archive for July, 2004

Winnebago Man

Thursday, July 29th, 2004

This morning, among my daily reads, I came across a great link thanks to Web over at Webslog. The link is to movie made up of the cutting room scraps from an industrial film for Winnegagos. It is titled Winnebago Man:shock:,
(If you are in your office, use headphones.):wink:
While you are wasting time , […]

Etch A Sketch

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004

After reading an entry on Wirefarm about Sketchbook blogs, I went off in search of some more examples. I have yet to find anything as good as what Jim found, but I did come across this site. The things that this guy does with a simple Etch-A-Sketch are pretty impressive. I remember […]

Neo-Pagan?

Thursday, July 22nd, 2004

I dropped by On Gaien Higashi Dori, where Setsunai had posted his results to a “What Philosopher Are You?” quiz. I decided to try it out as well, but was dissatisfied to find myself classified as a Determinist, so I took a detour over to the “Belief System Selector”.
I was surprised to find that […]

BurnMeister

Wednesday, July 21st, 2004

I added a Kanji learning tool to the sidebar of this site today. I am not sure if anybody without a Japanese enabled computer will be able to read it or not, but it works for me. Hopefully this will help my seemingly futile attmept at getting a grasp on the writing system […]

531:1

Wednesday, July 21st, 2004

From CEOs Are Overpaid:
According to Business Week, the average CEO of a major corporation made 42 times the average hourly worker’s pay in 1980. By 1990 that had almost doubled to 85 times. In 2000, the average CEO salary reached an unbelievable 531 times that of the average hourly worker.
…and from Executive Paywatch:
In 2003, the […]

Have Mores

Tuesday, July 20th, 2004

What is the current disparity ratio between CEO salaries, and those of the guys in the mailroom? I can’t get this question out of my mind. I do not have any stats to sift through on this, but I would really like to know what the ratio is today, what it was […]

Find the Boeing

Wednesday, July 14th, 2004

Here is a version of Where’s Waldo? for the conspiracy theorists in the crowd.
Where’s the Boeing?