Long Weekend Roundup

Learn how to breakdance

Seth Godin on how hard people really work, this just after the new report that the average American works 1,800 hours a year, which isn't really all that much, but it's a lot more than any other country. That actually works out to less than 40 hours a week, but if it includes unemployed people then it makes sense.

Mark Cuban finally says something I mostly agree with. Actually I agree with a lot of what he says, but not all of it. And some of it I vociferously disagree with.

The Sun, the big tabloid in the UK, just cut its cover price to try to keep its circulation up. Is the celebrity-worshipping-culture bubble about to pop? England has always been the mainstay of the celebrity-worship culture, the one place where the tabloids will always sell and the place where they are completely outrageous and sensational. Is this finally coming to an end? Will I still have to watch E News and VH1 reality shows with my wife or will a merciful end finally come?

I'm not a big fan of video games but to someone who is this might mean something.

This is kind of dark, but funny, from the Onion:


Missing Girl Probably Raped