It’s a mere 168 days until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows hits the streets on July 21. I’ve already preordered mine, and am shipping it to the Star (the paper is put together on Saturday mornings), so even if we move between now and then, I still have my order locked in.
Happy, happy!
Old school geekery online at last: What’s New with Phil & Dixie was a staple of the early 1980s Dragon magazine, and at long last, it’s being put online, one strip at a time.
Oregon researcher’s studies show up to 8 percent of rams prefer sex with other rams.
Yes, I know I’m late getting to this story, but I just couldn’t resist the headline, even though it technically doesn’t make sense in context.
“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
I’m pretty sure that Plato would have attended meetings of his local government bodies, or at least watched them as they streamed them over the Internet.
He was also way into Slashdot, but that’s a story for another day.
I heard this story on the Marketplace podcast and was impressed. Obviously, trade unions (and their members) have been on the losing side of a lot of the changes brought by globalization. But this is the first time I’ve heard of them proactively stepping up to respond.
But his union and others are trying to stop the slide into irrelevancy. They’re asking, if corporations aren’t constrained by national borders, why should unions be? IG Metall has signed agreements with Britain’s second-largest trade union, Amicus, and two American unions — the United Steelworkers and the Machinists.
The agreements call for more information sharing and collaboration. But the ultimate goal is much bigger. They want a transnational super union within a decade, which could have more than 7 million members. It could, for example, call for multinational strikes and keep companies from playing workers in different countries against one another.
Whatever you think of trade unions, it’s interesting watching how the world changes as “globalization” goes from being a catchphrase to simply a standard way of life.
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