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Spotted by our friend in Oakland.

So when I hear John Lennon’s music in a bank commercial, that’s Yoko’s fault, right?

Fun fact: that’s Peter Murphy singing “Instant Karma” in the new Chase commercials.

Nice little piece on a Brazilian letterpress shop.

A few weeks ago a friend asked me out of curiosity if her IT department could see everything she was doing online. Yes, they can. A friend of mine who handled IT for a law firm once told me that he and his manager had a record of every employee’s passwords to personal accounts (seriously, like bank accounts) and routinely watched their activities by opening employees’ screens on their own. They would follow IM conversations between employees and literally knew everything that was “secretly” happening in the firm. Terrifying.

If IT wants to open your screen on theirs and watch what you’re doing, there’s not much you can do about it. But here are three things I do to allow a modicum of privacy. Bear in mind, I’m not an IT guy. This is just information from an amateur who digs privacy. (continue reading…)

I’m going to be writing about business — something about which I happily admit I know nothing. I couldn’t make a living running my own business. I’m not good at the details and I accept that.

But I do work for businesses and I observe how they run and that’s what I’m about to report: my observations. So just bear that in mind as things develop.

So simple a mashup and so good.