Entries For: June 2008
2008-06-23
Business values and ethics mix in strange ways
Once again many people miss an occasion to just shut up and say nothing.
In a blog entry a professional photographer from Colorado wonders how same-sex weddings impact his business. The author crams his foot in his mouth very effectively:
Put aside for a moment your own values. Would it hurt or help your business to photograph same-sex commitment ceremonies or weddings?
Regardless of the issue at hand, the storm of comments that followed on MeFi attracted my attention by the sheer number of fallacies and ill-chosen analogies:
- “Should a KKK photographer refuse or accept to photograph black commitment ceremonies or weddings?”
- “Should a black photographer refuse or accept to photograph KKK commitment ceremonies or weddings?”
- “Should a vegetarian photographer have the right to refuse to photograph a wedding reception where fois gras is served?”
Some comments sent me giggling, but I admit my patience was not enough to read past this insightful thought: “Should they have to choose between pissing off God and pissing off a potential client?”
Ethics and businesses? With religion in the middle? Makes me giggle. and sad.
2008-06-21
Unlikely “short” itineraries
One of my favorites pastimes when procrastinating: looking up unusual ways to travel by train. Using the journey planner with the largest database that I know of, I set myself imaginary goals and I search:
- the longest journey that can be achieved within a day: Marseille-Malmö
- the longest journey in a single night train: Hamburg-Villach, Paris-Barcelona, Amsterdam-Milano
- the longest journey that can be achieved at high speed within a day: Marseille-Berlin via Brussels and Köln
- the longest journey that can be achieved without changing trains: Amsterdam-Moscow
- the longest journey with only one change: Amsterdam-Beijing via Moscow
Updating links
Removed from the daily reads: Dilbert, Daily WTF, UF. Added: PhD Comics.