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"Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, pushes its employees to the limit. Former employees describe a dark, high-pressure work environment that makes them feel like robots, as timers countdown between each of their actions. Take a look inside the one-click world of Amazon as we go undercover with hidden cameras." - bcultral

Nice! I personally use ManicTime (Windows), something that would scare the s*** out of any employee I may hire in the future. 9) - Zu from AOD

"How Retailers Concoct 'Bargains' for the Holidays and Beyond" - bcultral

"A European collaboration has analysed thousands of microblogging updates to help them develop an opinion detector for data mining the social media lode and extracting nuggets of information that could be gold dust for policy makers, marketing departments and others looking for emerging trends and attitudes." - bcultral

Facebook removed individuals from the calculations. It's easier for peeps to manage all their social activities there instead of meatspace. Strangely, there is still a strange gap between the two even though we would falsely think that it reflects reality. Since you can invent yourself online, can't that be that an imaginative narrative is the reason for those relationship changes? Now that we're going to a cashless society run by credits, are we going for a social-less one run by networks? - Zu from AOD

""The journey to the moon" (1902) By  Georges Méliès  Must surely be the first science fiction movie ever created? It is no Ridley Scott or George Lucas production but for the hardcore science fiction fan it offers a pretty interesting history lesson of how the genre began 110 years ago" - bcultral

Love this movie! - Zu from AOD

Done, thanks! - Zu from AOD

I love this website, I check it out regularly. I'd hope more data would be available to them to make it worldwide. - Zu from AOD

"From the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary: glossary noun an alphabetical list, with meanings, of the words or phrases in a text that are difficult to understand For example: a glossary of technical terms" - bcultral

And another WTF moment is in! Potential self-hypnosis? Easier to do with touchscreens vs what I see in the thumbnail. There's maybe the probability that creative writing could be achieved effortlessly this way. Auto-Suggesting or Auto-Correcting your thoughts surely will have strange results. I am able to type on a touchscreen without looking and be accurate, it's just that I would have to find a way to have the device forcibly and steadily attached to the hands. - Zu from AOD