Archive for June, 2010
Army: Bodies Misidentified at Arlington Cemetery Anne Flaherty and Pauline Jelinek, Associated Press (June 10, 2010) This is a breaking story which I just got from the Washington Post via the Associated Press. In short, an investigation at the Arlington National Cemetery has revealed that despite strict protocol for US military funerals and burial, the [...]
- By: John
- In: Burial|Cemeteries
- Tags: Arlington Cemetery, corpse abuse, soldiers
Death and the New Yorker Maiden
9, Jun 2010Humor and Death: A Qualitative Study of the New Yorker Cartoons (1986-2006) NCBI ROFL blog (June 07, 2010) I read the New Yorker magazine every week and have been reading it for years. In fact, I was reading the most recent issue just today. One of the magazine’s best features is its cartoons. Most of [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Humor|Death + Popular Culture
Overtime and Under Stress
8, Jun 2010“Maybe this spate of suicides will also serve us as a wake-up call,” he said in an interview last week. “We realize we must do a better job.” —Louis Woo, a high-ranking Foxconn executive The NY Times has written another article about the Foxconn suicides. This follows a second pay raise by the company this [...]
Foxconn Raises Salaries
4, Jun 2010Today’s NY Times reports that Foxconn will raise employee’s salaries by 33 percent. Assembly line workers will now go from the equivalent of approximately $132 per month to $176 per month. A week earlier, company chairman Terry Gou, had promised to improve conditions at the factory and to quell the rash of suicides plaguing the [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + Technology|Suicide
- Tags: China, Foxconn
Deathly Art at DIA
3, Jun 2010Anubis, the Egyptian god of the dead, has joined the ever-growing population of deathly artworks at the Denver International Airport (DIA). Denver’s local ABC affiliate, KMGH, reports that horrified travelers are now greeted by the 26-foot tall statue upon arrival in the main terminal. Anubis is being erected in anticipation of the Denver Art Museum’s [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Afterlife|Death + Art / Architecture|Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: public art, religion