, April 11, 2014
Daily Bafflements
Carefree French people, pictured here not checking their work emails.
Breathless film still courtesy of Martin Pulaski
• Accounting School Guide has made a useful (and telling) interactive graphic to demonstrate the practical breakdown of a “living wage” for each state in the nation.
• France, of 35-hour-work-week fame, got a lot of attention yesterday for introducing a rule prohibiting after-work emailing. It’s not a national law; it’s an agreement between a federation of employers and two unions. But it will still affect hundreds of thousands of workers.
• Fifty years later, could the Civil Rights Act pass today? Survey says . . .
• And now for something a little different: writing tips, on the granular, grammatical level, David Foster Wallace (via Kottke.org).