Month: July 2002

“Jobs from Hell”

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There’s an interesting article from the Boston Globe “Some jobs leave us battered, scarred — but enlightened”, about Jobs from Hell:

Sometimes the money seduces us, or the location. Sometimes we ignore warning signs during the interview. Maybe we neglect to ask the right questions, or we’re tired of being unemployed, or too young to know better […].

Of course, you’d need to have a job for it to be one-from-Hell (ahem). And, oddly enough, I found the article somewhat comforting :-/.

(Link from MetaFilter)

“Fear Factor Sundae”?

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As a marketing tie-in that must have“sounded like a good idea at the time”, NBC is joining forces with Baskin-Robbins:

In an unusual deal to help its fall-season premiere, NBC has struck a multimillion-dollar integrated-marketing deal with ice cream restaurant chain Baskin-Robbins, which will develop ice cream flavors for NBC shows — such as Fear Factor Sundae, Will & Grace’s Rocky Road of Romance, Good Morning Miami Mint, Stuckey Bowled-Over Brownie (for Ed), and Pralines ’n American Dreams. […]

Ehh, I think I’ll just stick with Braum’s for my ice cream needs :).

(Link from MediaBistro)

Digital Pictures & Posterity

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The article “No home for digital pictures?” over at The BBC’s website points out an acute problem with digital imaging. Namely, what happens to pictures if their media becomes obsolete?

In fact, it turns out that images stored electronically just 15 years ago are already becoming difficult to access. The Domesday Project, a multimedia archive of British life in 1986 designed as a digital counterpart to the original Domesday Book compiled by monks in 1086, was stored on laser discs.

Digital cameras 27% of new cameras sold are digital The equipment needed to view the images on these discs is already very rare, yet the Domesday book, written on paper, is still accessible more than 1,000 years after it was produced. […]

It’s for that reason that, though I still intend on (eventually) buying a digital camera, I’ll also be buying an analog counterpart.