Five Live Links by Travis Smith

How are America’s two-career familes coping? In a word: barely (Great AP article)

I couldn't stop reading this article about a UCLA study that has spent 4 years analysing 32 Los Angeles families. The conclusions are absolutely amazing. Things like: * A man walks into the bedroom after work as his wife folds laundry. There is no kiss, or even a hello. Instead, they resume their breakfast argument virtually in midsentence about who left food on the counter to spoil. * Ochs laments how few people have any unstructured time. In just one of the 32 families did the father � a freelance film animator � make a habit of taking an evening stroll with his son and daughter. * How much stuff do people own? So much that only two families have room to park their cars in the garage. The world has never seen consumption on this scale, Arnold says. "And every week we see more stuff arriving. People can't stop." * Ochs says families gathered in the same room just 16 percent of the time. In five homes, the entire family was never in the same room while scientists were observing. Not once.

posted at 12:13 am
on Mar. 24, 2005

Rog::Ran::Dom: writes about “Groundhog Day in Brazil”—you hang a dog from a rope and spin him (co

It looks horribly cruel, and triggered a rather large debate in Flickr-land about whether one should photograph such things. Update: This is apparently a wire service photograph from Bulgaria, not Brazil, and even with that correction, the poster notes that this story has not been fully verified. I hope it turns out to be a hoax.

posted at 12:28 am
on Mar. 9, 2005

If you use a RAID array, you won’t be able to activate Acrobat 7.0

So you can have your data secure, or Adobe can have its activation system -- and guess who wins? They should put this on the box and on the requirements page (they don't currently), that you are required to have at least one non-RAID drive to use the product.

posted at 1:27 pm
on Mar. 8, 2005

Overheard

“We were addicted to the intensity of our hunger—the almost limitless depths of it—and to the certitude that we were needed, that we were vital. Such a feeling is not as wonderful as the condition of being loved, but it is similar, with its dependencies, and far more reliable.”

...who said it?

“When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.”

...who said it?

“From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.”

...who said it?

“Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart”

...who said it?

: “If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; build anyway.”

...who said it?

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