BusinessPundit takes on the tremendously assinine Steve Pavlina’s recent post “10 Reasons Why You Should Never Get a Job”. Pavlina, a mountebank if there ever was one, writes condescending advice for the Amway set about such burning issues as polyphasic sleep and taking the “red” pill. Ok, it isn’t all as terrible as I make it out to be, but that article about never taking a job was pretty ridiculous.
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Marketing and Mental Health
The One Real Reason You Are Stressed Out, Overweight, Depressed or Angry. Ok, you might think this is a tad overblown, but the author’s hypothesis is that the reason we are all suceptible to marketing is because we all believe that we aren’t suceptible to marketing. Hence the endless cycle of buying more things you do not need and depression that ensues when thing purchased does not satisfy you.
How Infocom Failed
Via Metafilter – the story of how Infocom failed. Infocom produced Zork and a whole host of text adventure games. They’re still pretty much some of the most imaginitive and challenging games to play.