Les citations du roi du bruit montrent une certaine âme

Je n'étais aucun doute soutenu un siècle trop en retard et du côté faux de l'étang. Je' ve été parfait dans la 19ème Italie-dépense de siècle mes soirées aux opéras de Verdi.

Qu'étant dit, vous devez se rendre compte que je connais à côté de rien au sujet de la musique de Michael Jackson-juste les titres sinistres.

Cependant, j'ai trébuché au moment une page des citations aujourd'hui du roi du bruit, et de moi a été impressionné.

Deux vraiment frappés me :

Si vous entrez dans ce monde sachant que vous êtes avez aimé et vous laissez ce monde sachant la même chose, puis tout avec lesquels se produit dans l'intervalle peut être occupé.

La signification de la vie est contenue dans chaque expression simple de la vie. Il est présent dans l'infini des formes et des phénomènes qui existent en tout de la création.

Gazouillent ce poteau

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Shakespeare un Plagiarist et un copyright Scofflaw ?

Considérez ceci de Michael Masnick chez TechDirt:

Si la loi de copyright courante des USA avait été en effet Shakespeare fini, je pense qu'il pourrait avoir été poursuivi par beaucoup d'auteurs pour l'infraction de copyright pour l'écriture qui chef d'oeuvre.

Comptez combien de procès là pourraient avoir été justes pour seul le Roi Lear :

Le jeu de Shakespeare est basé sur de divers comptes de la figure mythologique celtique semi-finale-légendaire Lear/Lir. La source la plus importante de Shakespeare est pensée pour être la deuxième édition des chroniques de l'Angleterre, du Scotlande, et de l'Irelande par Raphael Holinshed, édité en 1587. Holinshed himself found the story in the earlier Historia Regum Britanniae by Geoffrey of Monmouth, which was written in the 12th century. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, published 1590, also contains a character named Cordelia, who also dies from hanging, as in King Lear.

Other possible sources are A Mirror for Magistrates (1574), by John Higgins; The Malcontent (1604), by John Marston; The London Prodigal (1605); Arcadia (1580-1590), by Sir Philip Sidney, from which Shakespeare took the main outline of the Gloucester subplot; Montaigne’s Essays, which were translated into English by John Florio in 1603; An Historical Description of Iland of Britaine, by William Harrison; Remaines Concerning Britaine, by William Camden (1606); Albion’s England, by William Warner, (1589); and A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, by Samuel Harsnett (1603), which provided some of the language used by Edgar while he feigns madness. King Lear is also a literary variant of a common fairy tale, in which a father rejects his youngest daughter for a statement of her love that does not please him.

The source of the subplot involving Gloucester, Edgar, and Edmund is a tale in Philip Sidney’s Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, with a blind Paphlagonian king and his two sons, Leonatus and Plexitrus.

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Found: A Living, Breathing Proofreader

I stumbled across a real, live proofreader today writing about her profession for an online publication called MedPage Today. Not only was it refreshing to read about someone’s plying an honorable but almost extinct journalistic trade, but Liz O’Brien also had two great links. (I wonder if Ms. O’Brien would catch what’s seriously wrong with my previous sentence.)

First, she linked to a story about a proofreader who died at his desk and wasn’t discovered for five days. His legendary name is George Turklebaum, and you can read about him here.

What’s even better is a collection of un- or mis-proofread headlines that are worth more than a few chuckles.

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Surprise Source for Newspapers’ Woes

A lot of what’s causing heartache for newspaper finances across the land is flying under the radar. Most pundits point to the availability of news online, which is all very good as one contributing factor, and others chart the migration of ads from print to online–or to oblivion in these trying times.

However, as both the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Cleveland Plain Dealer announced restructurings over the weekend (the Star Tribune through bankruptcy), the bedrock of newspapers’ financial survival has been gobbled up by Craigslist and other free online advertising venues.

That would be the least flashiest aspect of the business–newspaper classified ads.

So, while newspaper readership is marginally down, classified advertising is hemhorraging. Analyze it as you may, but the bottom line is that newspapers are an endangered species, at least the big-city variety.

Which is all too sad.

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There’s Strength in Numbers, Or Is There?

Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon have come out with a new book, and a Web site of the same name, called I Hate People.

What it reveals–and what took me almost my entire professional career to figure out–is that you can’t trust anyone at work. They’ll all stab you in the back or throw you under the bus in an instant–if it somehow helps them.

Now, back to my headline. I could examine the saying, "There’s strength in numbers," from a perspective of where it came from and what it means, but I’d rather cue it into the book, I Hate People.

The authors reveal that forty or so years ago, Fortune magazine did a survey of qualities employers most sought in employees. Teamwork ranked tenth. In a similar survey done by the magazine in 2005, teamwork had jumped to number one.

How depressing, considering that the only people who love teams are those who command their appearance and those blowhards who worm their way into taking charge of them to feed their egos.

Hershon and Littman cite an experiment by a French engineer named Maximilien Ringelmann, who measured people’s efforts pulling on a rope attached to a strain gauge. Pulling in groups, people exerted themselves less; pulling alone, they gave it their all.

This has come to be known as "social loafing," or simply the "Ringelmann Effect."

Either way, it accounts for the futility of throwing teams at a problem. Better to give a million monkeys one typewriter each and see how long it takes them to recreate the Great Books of the Western World.

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