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Information Obesity
Roland Piquepaille writes "How many phone calls, emails, voicemails, memos or stories do you have to go through every day? Probably more than last year. And probably too much. This article from the Sydney Morning Herald looks at this problem of information overload and how to deal with it. Here is a quick and not well-known fact: Website content management author Gerry McGovern says that something like 70 per cent of most websites goes unread. Despite that, when putting content on the web, "rarely do we ask the question: is anybody interested in reading that?" Good point. Check this column for a summary if you don't have time -- and who has? -- to read the original article."
As one who cannot afford all the new masturbatory gadgets that come out, I often wonder how much they actually contribute to productivity, rather than further encumbering their users.
How can anything come without a warranty!? What if it marks an electronic greeting card as spam! I'd have no one to sue!
I tried making a joke about this in the open music license article yesterday, but moderators took it seriously. THIS IS A SARCASTIC JOKE.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Apparently, theres good eatings on cats, just be careful during the breeding not too breathe in too deeply.
On a related note, anyone care to enlighten me as to what the most desirable quality an eating cat should have, these ones seems to have been bred into a form most unlike any feline I've encountered. Oh, and what the hell is a Chinese ferret badger?
Amazing how useless information suddenly becomes useful.
Now you've gone and made me hungry... Mmmm, cats...