Been working inside too long? The Rest of Us (June), the newsletter of the Chicago Area Macintosh Users’ Group, offers this brief review of SoundScape 2.1.1: “A control panel that plays bird calls at random intervals. Yes I know this isn’t an application, but some of us happen to like birds. OK?”
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“Many advocates of free trade claim that higher productivity growth in the United States will offset any downward pressure on wages caused by the global sweatshop economy,” writes Michael Lind in Harper’s (June), “but the appealing theory falls victim to an unpleasant fact. Productivity has been going up in America, without resulting wage gains for American workers. Between 1977 and 1992, the average productivity of American workers increased by more than 30 percent, while the average real wage fell by 13 percent.”
No muddy water in these bankers’ living rooms. From a First Chicago press release on the temporary economic slowdown caused by the wet Midwestern spring: “It’s still uncertain whether this year’s floods will be as bad–and ultimately as stimulative–as 1993’s.”
Coming next: “Forms Dad Faked That He Doesn’t Want the IRS to Know About.” A local radio station observed Father’s Day by inviting students from Chute Middle School in Evanston to broadcast features on “Silly and Fun Things Dad Did That He Doesn’t Want Mom to Know.”
