MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Last Monday, when Kerry McCarthy MP got up to speak in the House of Commons she made history – not for the words she spoke, but for reading them off her iPad.
Later in the week, the Speaker of the House said he could no longer “reasonably prevent” the use of iPads and smartphones in the chamber, so long as they didn’t disturb fellow MPs.
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Twice in recent weeks I’ve caught intelligent men in the office hunched over their computers watching a cat trying to insert itself into a small cardboard box on YouTube. When I challenged one of them, he responded by forwarding me a link to a study showing that cutie animal videos boost productivity – which only proved to me that he, like my sons, was so passionate in his defence of mind-addling technology that he has left rationality long behind.
Comments
This explains much.
by cmaukonen on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 12:33pm
Hey, that link takes us to some boring FT article, that we even have to register for! Where's the link to the cute cat in the cardboard box? Amuse us!
by acanuck on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 5:27pm
What? Not registered with FT? I thought this was a political/economics blog.
Oh, well. Sorry no cat in a box, dead or alive or in between. How about food sculpture instead?
The image of a banana dolphin shows up in preview but not after saving? Whatever. The dolphin and other somewhat less cute images are here:
http://www.thatwasfunny.com/food-sculptures/1449
by EmmaZahn on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 5:48pm