Kidding...
"The Mail On Sunday visited some of these factories and spoke with staff there. It reports that Foxconn's Longhua plant houses 200,000 workers, remarking: "This iPod City has a population bigger than Newcastle's."
The report claims Longhua's workers live in dormitories that house 100 people, and that visitors from the outside world are not permitted. Workers toil for 15-hours a day to make the iconic music player, the report claims. They earn £27 per month. The report reveals that the iPod nano is made in a five-storey factory (E3) that is secured by police officers.
Another factory in Suzhou, Shanghai, makes iPod shuffles. The workers are housed outside the plant, and earn £54 per month - but they must pay for their accommodation and food, "which takes up half their salaries", the report observes." Via Boingboing. Link.
Apple has promised to investigate the labor conditions in its iPod factories.
This is a test
Heard the new mosquito ringtone?
"The ringtone - which can be downloaded from the internet - is proving especially popular amongst school students in the US and UK who use it in classrooms. With it, students can receive text message alerts on their mobile phones without the teacher knowing ... Mr Howard Stapleton, the inventor of the "Mosquito", claims the high-frequency pulsing sound can be heard by most people younger than 20 and almost no one older than 30."
So, test your hearing - can you hear it? Try the link over here (scroll down). I am happy to report I can hear it, not bad for an old bastard.
ADDED: Mister Grigg drops part three of his vinyl lists over here - recommended albums. Great reading.
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