Steve Jobs responds to the Foxconn controversy.
In case you haven’t heard, there’ve been 13 attempted suicides at a chinese factory that makes Apple, Nokia, Toshiba, and other products.
Attn: Girls and fashion people
I think I might go to H&M (cheap, ethical clothes!) after work today to replenish my wardrobe a bit. I’m still wearing the same polo shirts I bought when I first got my job three years ago and they’re starting to look pretty ratty.
On Virtuosity
A friend asked me this and I thought it was an interesting question:
Which virtue do you think is the most overrated?
(There’s a huge list of the supposed virtues on Wikipedia.)
Looking Dinner in the Eye
New York Times has a great article on the growing surge of respect for the meat we eat, or, rather, the animal said meat comes from. Jamie “The Naked Chef” Oliver apparently butchered a chicken live on TV and talked at length with his butcher/farmer friend about the evils of factory farms and the virtues of free range; how the whole system is propped up by the demand for cheap— perhaps overly cheap —food. Which is really just awesome and I applaud him. Apparently after the program aired, supermarkets all over the U.K. sold out of free range chicken and eggs.
But I don’t think it’s quite as cut and dry as Oliver would like to make it seem.