BlachanLab
Mo3jam ( معجم ) is a user-generated dictionary of colloquial Arabic.
Shahi is a visual dictionary that combines Wiktionary content with Flickr images into a single pleasant and easy-to-use interface.
The word Shahi is Saudi Arabic for tea!
Qur'an Verses is an Islamic application on Facebook that allows the user to browse and search the Qur'an in many languages, explore explanations and exegeses, and listen to various beautiful recitations of the Islamic holy text.
Created in the summer of 2007, it is the most highly used Qur'anic application on Facebook.
We’re doing our part to help the economy.
That’s according to new research out of the University of Melbourne, which found that Workplace Internet Leisure Browsing (WILB) improves productivity by giving internet-centric workers a chance to refocus their minds between tasks. The increase is startling; workers who spend as much as 20 percent of their office time leisure browsing actually get more work done than workers who don’t.
How? Why? Is this the kind of information I could use to mess around with Facebook while I should be working?
Seriously though, I think that’s an interesting discovery because what companies used to do (this started in Japan) was get there employees to do stretching excersises during the work-day. Now it’s turning into net-surfing. I think that’s a pretty bad sign.
I wonder if the basic premise is this: people slack off at work for a couple of hours, realize belatedly that they’re about to hit a deadline, and then scamper off in a flurry of work to get things done.
But yes, now you have a scientific argument for how to unblock Facebook at work.
Yeah, I agree with Kareem. In fact, there’s a law for what you’re stating, called Parkinson’s law, that says “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
I find myself unable to accomplish any work unless faced with imminent and strict deadlines. That, and I think you’d feel less micromanaged and more appreciative of your superiors when they loosen their grip and trust your honesty and work ethic, which might prompt you to reciprocate by being productive.
Ok, but if “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”, then that means that if I have a longer amount of time to do my work, I will take all the time available to me to complete it. So if I have less time to get the work done I’ll still finish it because I have to. But I’m not actually get more work done either way, as in Im only more productive becasue Im doing the same amount of work in less time, not becasue Im getting more work done. Assuming that Ive understood this correctly, the statistics are actually a bit deceiving.