Someone sent me this video, friggin hilarious it is… About time someone made a video making fun of how IGNORANT people mispronounce Pho and other asian things… Check it out here edit: removed the link, as it’s dead.

Anyhow, there’s a new Technorati plug that figures out the estimated worth of your site based on links that go to it and other pull features… Here’s mine:

Monica on her blog, posted about this cool site called Opacity that has nice pics of abandoned uban decay and uban exploration. Pretty cool. After finding out about the Staten Island ship graveyard, I’m really tempted to go and take pics myself. It’s like the Bermuda triangle there… LOL

There was this interesting article on Yahoo news about the EU considering adopting the Danish (thx Monica) labor market model. Essentially the unemployment there is 90% of your salary up to $2,245 (US) which is around $30k a year. Funny because the article talks about a guy taking a job that barely pays more than that, and he states he’s not worried if he gets fired since he makes roughly the same on unemployment. Plus the cost of this is 50% subsidized by the goverment, and there are government-sponsored retraining programs available. A program like this would never survive in the US, especially with the general American work ethic and the mentality of entitlement. On top of that, I could see how corruption would be rampant in who gets awarded those goverment contracts to make those retraining programs. If such a program existed, the number of kids finishing high school or college would plummet, as $30k a year doing nothing is great money for them. The last sentence of this article reiterates that as there’s a quite large percentage of the freeloaders burdening the program. A program like this would probably survive better in a society that has very strong work ethic and “family-based” morale. Japanese and Korean societies are a good example of this. The whole work hard, make your family proud, keep the family’s reputation mentality that is so pervasive in these 2 cultures is to the point where is understood law. (In Japan even moreso, as they have one of the lowest crime rates in the world, and violent crime is almost unheard of). Anyways, take a good read at the article… post your opinion. Press (more) to view my cache of the article.
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