26 giugno 2009
Ero senza dubbio riguardato un secolo troppo in ritardo ed il lato errato dello stagno. ' ve stato perfetto in diciannovesima Italia-spesa di secolo le mie sere alle opere del Verdi.
Che essendo detti, dovete renderti conto che conosco vicino a niente circa la musica di Michael Jackson-appena i titoli lurid.
Tuttavia, ho inciampato su una pagina delle citazioni oggi dal re dello schiocco e dall'io è stato impressionato.
Due realmente impressionanti me:
Se entrate in questo mondo che sapete che siete amavate e lasciate questo mondo che conoscete lo stesso, allora tutto che accada nel fratempo possa essere trattato con.
Il significato della vita è contenuto in ogni singola espressione di vita. È presente nell'infinità delle forme e dei fenomeni che esistono in tutto della creazione.
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25 giugno 2009
Consideri questo da Michael Masnick a TechDirt:
Se la legge di copyright corrente degli Stati Uniti fosse stata in effetti Shakespeare eccessivo, penso che potrebbe essere citato da molti autori per l'infrazione di copyright per scrittura che masterpiece.
Conti quante cause là potrebbero essere giuste per il re Lear da solo:
Il gioco dello Shakespeare è basato sui vari clienti della figura mythological celtica semi-leggendaria Lear/Lir.
La fonte più importante dello Shakespeare si pensa per essere la seconda edizione dei Chronicles dell'Inghilterra, di Scotlande e di Irelande da Raphael Holinshed, pubblicato in 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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June 23, 2009
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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June 22, 2009
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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June 18, 2009
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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