Arts , Greenbelt , Tech

Things That Delight Me About the Web, vol 382

I love the way you can stumble across a page written in a language you don't understand, and then there out of the middle of the foreign script comes a peculiar phrase that used to mean so much, that you wish you could read the context.

So anyone know what this Chinese site says about Fat and Frantic's "Last Night My Wife Hoovered My Head"?

The most I could get from the Babel Fish was "... this ... performance ... given name tune ... Housemartins ... is good ... Must".

(This entry was originally posted on the Greenbelt Blog.)

Tech

IT Sweatshops

From a 2001 proposal for a National Institute of Information Technology in Pakistan:

"We do not want Pakistan to become a country that the North uses for low-end, sweatshop software development.  The choice is between becoming a credible player in the IT world or merely being an IT slave for the West."

Question: is the IT industry about to undergo the same kind of radical reorganisation that shook up the textile industry in early part of the 20th century?