Sorry, dozed off there for a moment. Where was I? Oh yeah. This napping thing is no joke; according to the :
A recent article in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health said that fatigued workers cost employers US$136.4 billion a year in lost production. Moreover, a NASA study shows that a few winks after lunch can boost worker's output by as much as 34 percent.
So if your boss catches you nodding off in the telecom closet, just tell him or her that you're saving the country billions of dollars by being more productive. It might work.
Never one to squander an opportunity for cheap PR, is using Monday to promote its "pillow protectors" for midday droolers:
On this National Napping Day, Protect-A-Bed has chosen to salute the most magnificent of our napping species: the drooler. Droolers are particularly special because they fall into such a wonderful napping slumber that a puddle of drool is the inevitable result. ...The average pillow is a veritable Petri dish of allergens, dust mites and bacteria. The drooler often compounds the problem by introducing extra moisture to the pillow. The warm, moist environment offers the perfect haven for allergens and bacteria to grow.
OK, forget sleeping. I think I'm gonna hurl.
(If you need help nodding off, check out the over my last post about Asteroid 2009 DD45. I make one little joke about God and snowballs, and jeez, you'd think it's the end of the world.)
I think we need more obscure national holidays. I have one in mind: National Pirates Day -- not to be confused with , which occurs every year on September 19 (arrrgh, mateys).
I choose it in honor of college student Brittany Kruger, who's detailing how the RIAA and its jackals attorneys have hounded her for over the past two years. Kruger, who works at a Dairy Queen part time, says the record companies are asking her to pay two years' worth of salary to settle their dispute.
On National Pirates Day, everyone will swap copyrighted content with as many people as possible. Just open up your digital music and video libraries (and, of course, your lovingly preserved copies of the Cringely blog) and let fly. Of course, you'll delete it all the next day. It's just to prove that the global economy won't utterly collapse (at least, more than it already has) and the world will not end just because of a little file swapping.
Let me repeat that: The world will not end. So there's no need to continue that apocalyptic debate over here (you know who you are).
Enough of that. It's naptime.
Are you sleeping on the job? If not, why not? E-mail me: cringe@infoworld.com. I'll read them when I wake up.