Archive for July 19th, 2006

speechless

July 19, 2006

A 33-year-old British secretary has launched a test case before a French employment tribunal after being sacked from her company for writing a personal Internet blog about her day-to-day life in Paris.

What ? Fired ? Even if the girl was using a nickname ?

I can live with someone being fired for a blog named “my boss is a moron” or “my company should go to hell” but a harmless personal blog of a secretary… ? Come on…

Oh, here’s the blog

watch out, kid

July 19, 2006

The Perils of Being Huge: Why Large Creatures Go Extinct

Hum. Is it the purpose of any specie to eventually evolve in a way it becomes so big it collapse ?