Delicious LiveJournal Links for 10-25-2008

[andrewducker]

• Body Worlds exhibition back in London
  The attached photos are beautiful.
  (tags: bodyart humans bodies art)
• Donâ™t Mistake Ambition for Entitlement
  Nice little essay in rebuttal to a WSJ article accusing the current generation of having a sense of entitlement.
  (tags: society economics working_hours)
• Secret Tunnels under London
  Now for sale - with some interesting (and amusing) backstory attached.
  (tags: London Blitz tunnels)
• Best Buy smashes the clock
  Fascinating story about how they stopped having any working hours at all - employees work from anywhere, at any time, and are measured purely on results. I'd love to see this catch on...
  (tags: management business)
• Drinks firm to keep Roses pledge
  It promised to buy a can of Dr Pepper for every American if the new Guns'N'Roses album came out in 2008. And now it is!
  (tags: funny music drinking)
• Phone chargers - the truth
  Despite repeated warnings that we're costing a fortune with phone chargers being left on, a quick check shows that the amount of energy is completely negligible when compared to, well, anything else you might be using power for
  (tags: electricity ecology)

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[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

The phone charger thing is expanded on in http://withouthotair.com - a very readable and well-argued book (free online version) by the same guy.