Real-life Soap Opera

Arrgh.. My head hurts! How long until a fake town is built here in the states so the American version of this show can be produced…

For Big Brother-Das Dorf, TV channel RTL II has built an entire village just outside Cologne. It includes a bar, a gym, and a market square. In the show, which began at the beginning of March, the contestants have to work either in a farmyard, a car workshop or a fashion atelier. Prize money will be given out bit by bit as a reward for challenges successfully carried out, but the sum will be lost if the contestant leaves the village voluntarily. And with no set end date, they could well find themselves living in it forever. Candidates are divided into three social classes: rich, poor and average. The bosses give the orders and the lower ranks carry out more menial duties. “It seems to be a bit like a social experiment,” says Katrin Brinkhoff, a Berlin-based media psychologist. “And I find it especially interesting to have class distinctions in the programme in times likes these, when a seventh of all Germans are now defined as living in poverty.”

Real-life soap opera

Elective-enhancement surgery

Sports are going to have to take a long hard look at the state of human augmentation. Will they continue to be prudes and restrict the kind of enhancements that other countries will be letting their players get away with, or will they start to allow more and more ‘player betterments’. It won’t just be big sports like baseball and football either, bowling could benefit from a more powerful swing, pistol matches done by 10/20 vision would improve scores, the applications are endless. Just remember, the more the money that is involved, the more you will see this talked about.

To date, baseball pitchers have opted for the surgery only after suffering ligament damage, but elective-enhancement surgery is getting inevitable. And it will show up in other sports as well.

In fact, some players have already undergone laser eye surgery as it has been shown that “players coming off eye surgery are likely to see sub­stantial improvements in batting average and power.”

Elective-enhancement surgery

Secret Diary of an Apple Store Mac Genius

Over on Engadget – www.engadget.com I saw this tonight. I have looked at the part time jobs that Apple has to offer and for the most part it looks like a good place to work. Product Specialists are always in demand there, I could more than likely bluff my way in but I have not been to ‘Apple School’ so I’m not yet ‘one of the body’. This (soon to be out of work if history has any say in it) guy has a few problems with the way Apple does business. I would too, but you know what? Apple is in the business to make money (albeit in their own strange way) so you can expect them to charge for what they do. I do it too, not at the rate Apple gets away with but then again I’m not Apple. When you work on computers you tend to think that anyone can do this. They might try, but if you don’t know what your doing your going to break things more than they were before. Anyway, have a read before the guy gets sacked.
Secret Diary of an Apple Store Mac Genius