thedailyfeed: It pays to work in government — and really well. A new study says federal workers earn 16% more in total compensation than their private counterparts, and the government spends 48% more on benefits per employee.
Read more300 Chinese Foxconn workers threaten suicide at Xbox plant
iheartchaos: It’s been a while since there’s been any news coming out of a Foxconn plant in China. The last time was around this time last year, was about suicides at a factory that was pumping out iPads and iPhones before the company installed anti-suicide nets around the buildings. This time, 300 Foxconn employees went […]
Read moreFreedom from distraction may in fact be the new, sought after bourgeois luxury. In… “The Joy of Quiet,” Pico Iyer says that the future of travel lies in “black hole resorts” where you pay exorbitant amounts for remote beautiful rooms that are offline. The principle is that freedom from the Internet is so rare and exotic and impossible that it is becoming a commodity: It’s not iPhones or iPads we have to worry about buying, but peace from them. Freedom, then, is a poor man’s fabulous hotel room on a cliff on a beach without wireless.
Paterno and Second Mile chairman pursued $125M real estate deal during 2002 Sandusky allegations
thedailyfeed: Around the same time Jerry Sandusky was allegedly caught raping a boy in 2002, Joe Paterno was investing in a $125 million luxury retirement community with board members from the same charity Sandusky used to recruit his victims. And that’s not the only fishy link between Paterno, Penn State and Second Mile that The Daily’s Sarah Ryley […]
Read morehttp://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=&station=kgo§ion=&mediaId=8345503&cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&configPath=/util/&site= producermatthew: Remember the young students who read “My Pet Goat” with former President George W. Bush on September 11, 2001? They’re now juniors and seniors in high school, and they’re offering their thoughts on the events that placed them in the history books ten years ago. [AP] (Source: http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/)
Read moreA sweep ranging across the northeast United States picked up more than a hundred alleged mob members, including Meatball, Baby Shanks, Tony Bagels, Jimmy Gooch, Jello, Vinnie Carwash, and Jack the Whack.
The full version of WikiRebels, Swedish TV network SVT’s documentary on the history of WikiLeaks, is on YouTube for your viewing pleasure now. (Thanks to Rameen for the link.) (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Read moreOnce Again, Duct Tape Is There For Us
Once Again, Duct Tape Is There For Us
This time solving the obesity problem by simply applying a strip of tape down the middle of shopping carts, creating a space designated for healthy items (and leading people to buy more fruits and veggies in the process). [via]
And the award for Best Headline & Lede goes to…CNN
And the award for Best Headline & Lede goes to…CNN
How psyched was the guy who got to write this one up?:
Porn actor sought in slaying dies after falling off cliff
A porn actor, who was accused of killing a coworker with a sword, died after falling off a cliff in California on Saturday when police used a stun gun to subdue him.
Police said Stephen Clancy Hill attacked three coworkers with a samurai-style sword at the scene of a pornographic film shoot on Tuesday. One of the men later died.
Sidenote – Here’s the great thing about L.A.: because I spent a year in a Los Feliz apartment living downstairs from a psychotic, steroid-addled moron who seemed like exactly the type of guy who’d be dumb enough to be a male porn star AND threatened me with a samurai sword on more than one occasion, I was able to read that story and go “I think I know that guy.”
CNN: Would-be muggers in Australia thwarted by ninjas
CNN: Would-be muggers in Australia thwarted by ninjas
I want to live in a world where more headlines end ‘thwarted by ninjas.’