Archive for the 'Society' Category

Life’s Too Short for the Wrong Job

So here are some funny pictures advertising a site called jobsintown.de (note: I am not affiliated with them in any way. I gather they are an employment agency or job finding service – and not a Steve Jobs, the other kind). They’re a smart marketing technique – relating conventional, everyday tasks to humorous but menial [...]

A Sign of Our Times: A Christmas Tree Made From Shopping Carts

I had nothing to do with this, and I don’t know who put this together, but here’s a photograph of a christmas tree that someone has built. That’s pretty festive, you might say, and it is the season after all! But this Christmas tree is built from shopping trolleys, the carts we use to carry [...]

1973 vs. 2007…in the rest of the world

A recent post on Digg.com lamented at how much life had changed between 1973 and 2007. Reading over the list, I thought it was mildly amusing, but none of it was familiar. I was born in 1973, and I’ve lived in more than ten countries in that time. Here’s how I see the list.