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Well the heartwarming story lasted about 10 minutes until I came across this story.

In one of the largest moves to “offshore” highly paid U.S. software jobs, International Business Machines Corp. has told its managers to plan on moving the work of as many as 4,730 programmers to India, China and elsewhere, Monday’s Wall Street Journal reported.

Here was one of my favorite parts.

Some workers are scheduled to be informed of the plan for their jobs by the end of January. After that they will be expected to train an overseas replacement worker in the U.S. for several weeks.

Train your replacement? Train the person who is taking your job as you head to the unemployment line? For all the CEOs and upper management who think it is a good idea to outsource engineering jobs to third world countries I want you to click here!

From cnn:

The company this year awarded its employees with bonuses of $1,000 for every year worked at the company. Even those who had worked less than a year got $500 each.

Wow, a company that actually cares about its employees and treats them as people instead of numbers. At a time when we mostly hear about greedy CEOs and upper management who care only about the value of their shares it is really heart warming to read something like this in the news. Now if only more companies would start treating their employees like this!!

Have a go-kart but frustrated with its lack of speed? This guy decided that it would go a bit faster with a jet engine!!

He also offers a low cost way to build a cruise missile.

A monthly picture of some ugly architecture.

(via Boing Boing)

A site dedicated to oxymorons. The top ten list is:

10. Pretty Ugly
9. Head Butt
8. Working Vacation
7. Tax Return
6. Virtual Reality
5. Dodge Ram
4. Work Party
3. Jumbo Shrimp
2. Healthy Tan
1. Microsoft Works

(via LinkFilter)

Endless hours of hard work and careful planning over a period of 14 years went into this one-of-a-kind project. It will amaze anyone you choose to show it to. Or you can keep it completely secret as it is entirely camouflaged.
What you are about to see was dug by one man using a shovel.

Pretty amazing bunker diguised as a house.