Dave's Wibblinks

• Ten Signs of a Fear-Based Workplace - BusinessWeek

  1. Appearances are everything. When employees are preoccupied with staying in the office later in the evening than the boss does, fear is king. When people worry less about the quality of their work than about how they're perceived by managers higher up the chain, you've got fear.

  tags: honking work culture

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• How Investing Turns Nice People Into Psychopaths - Lynn Stout - Business - The Atlantic

  The problem with the homo economicus theory is that the purely rational, purely selfish person is a functional psychopath. If Economic Man cares nothing for ethics or others' welfare, he will lie, cheat, steal, even murder, whenever it serves his material interests. Not surprisingly, although homo economicus is alive and well in many economics departments, many experts today prefer to embrace behavioral economics, which relies on data from experiments to see how real people really behave. Behavioral economics confirms something both important and reassuring. Most of us are not conscienceless psychopaths.

  tags: People Psychopaths Investing

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• Glyphish – Great icons for great iPhone & iPad apps

  tags: icons design graphics resources

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• Robert Reich (The Difference Between Private and Public Morality)

  Republicans have staked out the moral low ground. It’s time for Democrats and progressives to stake out the moral high ground, condemning the abuses of economic power and privilege that characterize this new Gilded Age – business deals that are technically legal but wrong because they exploit the trust that investors or employees have place in those businesses, pay packages that are ludicrously high compared with the pay of average workers, political donations so large as to breed cynicism about the ability of their recipients to represent the public as a whole.

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• Folk & Traditional Song Lyrics - Mad Dogs and Englishmen

  In Hong Kong, they strike a gong, and fire off a noonday gun. To reprimand each inmate, who's in late.

  tags: folk song lyrics hongkong

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• PK_Tether | Tethering and remote control software for Pentax DSLR cameras

  PK_Tether allows connecting and controlling Pentax cameras from the PC. The list of currently supported models include: Pentax k-x, K7, K5, k-r, K20D, K10D, K200. In the program, it is possible to: set camera parameters like: shutter speed, aperture, ISO, image format and others remote release shutter save photos directly on computers hard drive periodically release shooter for time-lapse photography

  tags: pentax photography timelapse

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• Rands In Repose: A Precious Hour

  There is a time and place for the purposeful noisiness of busy. The work surrounding a group of people building an impressive thing contains essential and unavoidable busy and you will be rewarded for consistently performing this work well. This positive feedback can feed the erroneous assumption, “Well, the more busy I am, the more rewards forthcoming.” This is compounded by the insidious fact that part of being busy is you aren’t actually aware that you’re busy because you’re too busy being busy. You have no internal measurement of the amount of time you’ve actually spent being busy.

  tags: productivity flow

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• Good Tools Have Verb-Based Interfaces | Smarterware

  "These tiny touchscreen mobile computers we carry around in our pockets are the ultimate multi-tool. I use my phone to read, shop, watch, listen, cook, play, navigate, share, jot, photograph, and chat, so I organized my apps just like that. The guiding question for where each app went was What do I DO with it? Here's a screenshot of my first pass at a verb-based interface using folders on my iPhone."

  tags: tools interfaces

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• Latest News Columns & Insight from Hong Kong & China | SCMP.com

  "Governments the world over must maintain low spending and leave income in the hands of the individuals who earned it. They will spend it much more efficiently than the government can. Andrew Strain, North Point"

  tags: hong kong right-wing bullshit toxic moronic

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This just reads like the usual toxic nonsense that right-wingers spout: "only rich people are worthy of money, and taxes are theft". It's especially galling in a place like Hong Kong, where most of the population lives in subsidized housing, enjoys public healthcare, public education, public libraries, public transport, and enjoys a high standard of public safety thanks to a relatively modest level of taxation levied on some very rich people.

I always get the feeling that many Randroid types feel themselves to be John Galt if they have any business success in Hong Kong, without realizing just how much public largesse goes into that 'cheap' workforce they feel entitled to.

• McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero.

  But then one gray morning did Internet Explorer 6 no longer load The Google. Refresh was clicked, again and again, but still did Internet Explorer 6 not load The Google. Perhaps The Google was broken, the people thought, but then The Yahoo too did not load. Nor did Hotmail. Nor USAToday.com. The land was thrown into panic. Internet Explorer 6 was minimized then maximized. The Compaq Presario was unplugged then plugged back in. The old mouse was brought out and plugged in beside the new mouse. Still, The Google did not load.

  tags: internet fix hero humour

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• Brian Basham: Beware corporate psychopaths – they are still occupying positions of power - Business Comment - Business - The Independent

  In attempting to understand the complexities of what went wrong in the years leading to 2008, I've developed a rule: "In an unregulated world, the least-principled people rise to the top." And there are none who are less principled than corporate psychopaths.

  tags: psychopaths power business

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• Latest News Columns & Insight from Hong Kong & China | SCMP.com

  "Plus, Kim junior is fat, which is emphasised by the way the close-cropped part of his hair-do offsets his chubby jowls. The old guys are gaunt, particularly the shrouded Jang. Clearly, therefore, Little Big Kim is saying that Kim the Elder's days of lobster, cognac and outre hair are not over yet, for so long as he's around." Is someone in the SCMP actually paying this guy to write this drivel?

  tags: scmp drivel

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• This bastardised libertarianism makes 'freedom' an instrument of oppression | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

  Modern libertarianism is the disguise adopted by those who wish to exploit without restraint. It pretends that only the state intrudes on our liberties. It ignores the role of banks, corporations and the rich in making us less free. It denies the need for the state to curb them in order to protect the freedoms of weaker people. This bastardised, one-eyed philosophy is a con trick, whose promoters attempt to wrongfoot justice by pitching it against liberty. By this means they have turned "freedom" into an instrument of oppression.

  tags: freedom libertarianism guardian

  • Modern libertarianism is the disguise adopted by those who wish to exploit without restraint. It pretends that only the state intrudes on our liberties. It ignores the role of banks, corporations and the rich in making us less free. It denies the need for the state to curb them in order to protect the freedoms of weaker people. This bastardised, one-eyed philosophy is a con trick, whose promoters attempt to wrongfoot justice by pitching it against liberty. By this means they have turned "freedom" into an instrument of oppression.
  • Modern libertarianism is the disguise adopted by those who wish to exploit without restraint. It pretends that only the state intrudes on our liberties. It ignores the role of banks, corporations and the rich in making us less free. It denies the need for the state to curb them in order to protect the freedoms of weaker people. This bastardised, one-eyed philosophy is a con trick, whose promoters attempt to wrongfoot justice by pitching it against liberty. By this means they have turned "freedom" into an instrument of oppression.
  • Modern libertarianism is the disguise adopted by those who wish to exploit without restraint. It pretends that only the state intrudes on our liberties. It ignores the role of banks, corporations and the rich in making us less free. It denies the need for the state to curb them in order to protect the freedoms of weaker people. This bastardised, one-eyed philosophy is a con trick, whose promoters attempt to wrongfoot justice by pitching it against liberty. By this means they have turned "freedom" into an instrument of oppression.

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• Free printable staff paper @ Blank Sheet Music .net

  Useful Site!

  tags: music sheetmusic printable

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• Hong Kong Stock Market News | Stock Quotes & Finance News from Hong Kong & China | SCMP.com

  "It has five LCD monitors - two of them on touchscreen iPads - a Mac Mini, three Apple keyboards, an iPod docking station and runs its own Wi-fi hotspot." Touchscreen iPads?  As opposed to the boring iPads that require a keyboard and mouse?

  tags: hongkong scmp reporting

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