Random links
- Up all night: How the tech elite pushes a crazy workaholic culture
- Comments from various folks in the tech industry about their working hours.
- The One Thing "Don't Be That Girl" Got Right
- "I think it's telling that the original Don't Be That Guy campaign is constantly described as "successful" -- but by what rubric? If success is defined simply as inspiring similar campaigns from similar groups, then these groups need to seriously examine whether their goals and motivations really are what they claim. ... The assumption among rape-prevention activists is that alarming statistics must be met with more anti-rape rhetoric, more aggressively delivered, started younger, and embedded more neurotically in the brains of men and boys. But the sheer weight of all this well-intentioned shaming is already causing push-back, and not just from the slavering misogynists these activists imagine they are fighting. Perhaps it's time to consider that what we need is not more anti-rape initiatives, but smarter ones."
- Stairway to heaven: 300ft spiral staircase to give Chinese tourists a taste of the high life - as long as you don't have a heart condition
- Might be interesting.
- Charlie Chaplin’s Not-So-Silent Paternity Case
- "In California in 1943, Chaplin faced a paternity suit from ex-girlfriend and fellow actor Joan Berry. Berry claimed that Chaplin was the father of her daughter. Chaplin and Berry’s daughter underwent a blood test that determined that it was biologically impossible for the two to be related. Despite this information, the blood test results were not admissible in court and Chaplin was named the father of the child and ordered to pay child support until her eighteenth birthday."