Archive for the ‘Society’ Category

Politics 2.0

November 26, 2007

There’s a good post over at OurKingdom by Alice Casey from Involve about New Politics and who it should be built by…

Inteligent Design Venn Diagram

November 22, 2007

Religious folk please turn away now, you may find this offensive (I find it too funny not to post!)…

Via Jolie Laide 

Growing Up In The Universe

November 18, 2007

Unity has done the honours by re-hosting the Dawkings lectures. Well worth seeing from what I hear, I’ll be downloading to view just as soon as my bandwidth is ready.

Bosses crack down on internet socialising

November 12, 2007

Dear me, another ’social networking bringing about the collapse of civilisation’ story I see…

For anyone with a case of mild Facebook addiction, finding the time to squeeze a little work in between messing around online has become one of the great challenges of the 21st-century office. So if you are taking a quiet moment at work to read this online, steal a glance over your shoulder now: an investigation by the Guardian has found that employers are taking an increasingly draconian line on workplace time-wasters.

More than 1,700 public employees have been sacked or disciplined for internet or email misuse in the past three years, our research has found. Link

Nothing in the article that suggests the Guardian ’study’ bothered to ask why workers are more interested in surfing than working…

A sign of things to come?

September 17, 2007