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Bank of America seeks to patent abandoning America

Bank of America believes Americans to be overloaded with "a high salary, good benefits, a good work environment, vacation time, and other job-related perks." For shame!

But have no fear, Bank of America has submitted a patent application that will help companies find places to get work done where such pesky things as nice salaries, good benefits, good work environments, and vacation time are abandoned. (And yet, as Bret and Jermaine of Flight of the Conchords suggest, getting cheaper labor doesn't necessarily lead to cheaper products, though it does lead to fatter profits.)

Here's what it looks like:… Read more

Near-shoring open-source development to Latin America with North-by-South

Tristan Rhodes from the Ubuntu community sent me a link to a cool company called North-by-South. North-by-South is essentially an open-source software off-shoring firm with a twist: Instead of outsourcing to India or Eastern Europe (with the time zone problems that can arise), North-by-South instead works with talented open-source engineers in Latin America:

NXS gives businesses access to the top talent of Latin American open source programmers. Our network has all the skill sets needed to launch a software project into production from start to finish, located only 1-4 hours ahead of Pacific Standard time.… Read more

Who needs Lasik when 'Eye Power' is available?

And here we were just about to drop a few grand on laser surgery. Thank goodness we spotted the "Eye Power" on Dvice before getting on the table.

According to its Japanese distributor, this miracle device uses "ultrasonic technology" to fix near-sightedness and myopia (at least the physical kind, anyway). Just peer the offending orb into this thing for 10 minutes, and you can finally toss those Coke-bottle lenses.

That should help with the rigorous challenges you'll face as a contestant on Fear Factor, as we suspect that this is the only kind of person … Read more