Todd’s posterous
Here's where all my stuff gets dumped. Most of it ends up going to twitter, facebook, or flickr and it all gets mirrored over at my main site, Fillingim.com.
19 Weird Clauses in Baseball Contracts
Bonilla wasn’t any better the second time around, so the Mets waived him in 2000. The problem was that the team still owed Bonilla $5.9 million in guaranteed salary. Bonilla’s agents worked out a deal with the Mets where he would defer the salary if the team would pay him $1,193,248.20 every July 1 from 2011 to 2035. Not a bad deal for someone who was so bad the team basically paid him to go away.
Call Centers Return to US Homes
High inflation and double-digit annual raises in some sectors are pushing up the cost of labor in India. At the same time wages in the U.S. are falling and companies are rethinking the trade-offs associated with outsourcing.
via neatorama.com
College Football 2010 TV Schedule
Week 1 - September 2nd to September 6th
Week 2 - September 7th to September 12th
Week 3 - September 13th to September 19th
Week 4 - September 20th to September 26th
Week 5 - September 27th to October 3rd
Week 6 - October 4th to October 10th
Week 7 - October 11th to October 17th
Week 8 - October 18th to October 24th
Week 9 - October 25th to October 31st
Week 10 - November 1st to November 7th
Week 11 - November 8th to November 14th
Week 12 - November 15th to November 21st
Week 13 - November 22nd to November 28th
Week 14 - November 29th to December 5th
Weeks 15 & 16 - December 6th to December 18th
Company Presses Your Ashes Into Vinyl When You Die
Long after the last DVD player has broken down, you'll still be able to play a vinyl record.
A physical representation of music that can be played with a paper cup and a needle is much more future proof than an encrypted digital disc that needs a combination of specific hardware and software to play. In 100 years, I doubt much of the population will have even heard of a DVD, and approximately 0% will have the equipment to play them. The effort required to build a functional record player is very small, a crappy one can be done in minutes with household objects, a decent one could be built from scratch in a day. Building a DVD player from scratch after the last one ceases to function and adapting it to whatever display technology they'll have available then would be a massive undertaking.
via rss.slashdot.org
