iPod giveaway update
Don’t forget the second step of the contest where you have to email some friends about the contest and cc me. You’re not eligible to win the iPod unless you do both steps. I’m getting a big kick out of the submissions so far. Here’s one from Matt Barhorst that about made me pee my pants laughing:
Here’s the video Matt is referring to:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyooALwfxO8[/youtube] …
I wrote a piece – So You Want To Be An Author – for The Traveler’s Notebook outlining my eight year path to becoming a published author and sharing a few tips I learned along the way.
I’m always happy to help – the best I can – writers trying to find there way. I’ve been and still am on the receiving end of such help and like to pay it forward. Email me if you have any questions: [email protected]…
(From November 2007. Although this post has nothing to do with globalization or garments it is one of the most viewed in the history of this blog.)
Where did Mrs. Butterworth’s boobs go?
When I was kid she was much shapelier. Now, she’s as flat as a pancake.
There are only two reasons why they could have disappeared (none of which is that she is old and gravity plays on such things – because Mrs. Butterworth is ageless):
1) Economics – Pinnacle Food Company, which produces Mrs. Butterworth, decided that they could make a greater profit if they flattened her out, thus robbing consumers of two D-cups of her sweet nectar.
2) Prudishness – After decades of children and adult alike fondling…
This video is based on true experiences (even the bra lady!) at book signings and book clubs. If you have a book club, I would love to come visit it, especially if you’ll be discussing any or all of the following: strawberry pie, cheesecake, margaritas, beer, and (oh, yeah) my book. I would prefer to come in person, but if the distance is too great, maybe I can be there virtually (Skype, chat, phone). Email me: [email protected]
(a big thanks to the book club cheerleader for this video’s inspiration)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SufkZyIp5Fw[/youtube] …
When I was in Bangladesh trying to track down the factory that made my Jingle These Christmas Boxers, I reluctantly went undercover as an underwear buyer. I’ve never shared some of the photos I took from the experience, until now…
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This video discusses why the heck I’m relaunching the site 6 months after the release of my book. It also covers some of the new features, and most importantly discusses how you can win an iPod.
Plus, there’s a very special guest star — little Harper Willow Timmerman. When I watched this video, I barely paid attention to what I was saying. Instead I just stared at Harper.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOAY_sjE2tE[/youtube] …
Recently Author Barbara Ehrenreich revisited some of the people she wrote about in her book Nickel & Dimed to see how they were faring in the current economic climate. She writes about them in a recent Op-Ed in the NY Times:
The current recession is knocking the working poor down another notch — from low-wage employment and inadequate housing toward erratic employment and no housing at all.
She says that the media is obsessed with “Recession Porn.”
the story of an incremental descent from excess to frugality, from ease to austerity. The super-rich give up their personal jets; the upper middle class cut back on private Pilates classes; the merely middle class forgo vacations and evenings at Applebee’s.
Yet the story of the poor getting poorer isn’t reported on. …
John Ruggie, UN expert on human rights, on supply chain monitoring:
Just about everybody, at least off the record, will tell you that monitoring doesn’t work and auditing of supplier factories doesn’t work because people cheat.
Ruggie is quoted in Women’s Wear Daily. The piece goes on to mention that 70% of the factory audits are flawed and that the most viable option of monitoring and training lies with the Fair Labor Association.
The National Labor Committee was all over this report and makes a strong argument why labor laws must be upheld:
If Barbie Doll can be legally protected, by intellectual property and copyright laws, we sure…
I’m hammering out the details on the upcoming iPod giveaway. Details should be up Tuesday. Big stuff in the works for next week. Lots of awesome posts coming….
I wasn’t aware that Made in Malaysia might mean made by imported, forced labor. The story below shows Bangladeshi workers crammed together. Their passports are confiscated and they earn $5 per day.
Click Here To view Nike Human Rights Investigation!
Look, if $5 per day is at or above the average wage, I don’t have a problem with it. But every worker should have the right to go to their employer and say, “take this job and shove it!” When an employer confiscates passports and manages to workout relationships in which the employee owes them, that’s slavery and it needs to be stopped.
This story’s heart is in the right place, but it’s reporting is a bit thin. I would have liked to see a few more questions answered:
Bangladeshi workers weighed…
