{"id":213,"date":"2005-03-25T22:03:44","date_gmt":"2005-03-25T22:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/we_got_your_bac\/"},"modified":"2005-03-25T22:03:44","modified_gmt":"2005-03-25T22:03:44","slug":"we_got_your_bac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/language\/we_got_your_bac\/","title":{"rendered":"We Got Your Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nsfw_logo\"<\/a>Do you know what I love? I love NSFW. The phrase. The first time I saw it, no one told me what it meant, but I figured it out immediately. And I have a theory that this experience is common.<\/p>\n

Okay, here’s the scenario. You’re at work, you’re surfing the web, you see a link for, say, "Adult Engrish<\/a>." It’s ambiguous. Adult<\/em> could mean developmentally mature<\/em> or it could mean naughty.<\/em> You look around you and wonder, Is this link safe for work? And then you see a note next to the link: NSFW. Gotcha. I’ll look at it later.<\/p>\n

Now there is even a website<\/a> to streamline the process of sending NSFW links to friends.<\/p>\n

What I love about NSFW is what it implies about the work experience and human nature. We all waste time at work. And if you’re sitting at a desk using a computer with broadband for eight hours a day, your cursor will wander. The internet invites diversion (and subversion.) Whether it’s during lunch hour or before a big deadline, it happens. So NSFW acknowledges the common tendency and answers your question as soon as you ask it. It is a silent wink. You are part of a community–we get you and we are looking out for you.<\/p>\n

I am not overstating my point when I say that NSFW makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.<\/p>\n

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P.S. NSFW can also be deviously excluded for the viral spread of WMDs like these.<\/a><\/p>\n

Update: Solitaire is always NSFW if you work for the state of North Carolina. Senator Austin Allran has sponsored a bill that would require the state to erase solitaire from all its computers.<\/p>\n

The Christian Science Monitor<\/a> puts an Orwellian spin on the bill:<\/p>\n

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"It goes straight to the issue of distractions from long days at the office and, more fundamentally, how much of their employees’ time and concentration employers can reasonably expect to own."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Right on! Um, actually, if you’re paid by the hour, they could expect to own all of it… And maybe a little Big Bro would do us all some good. One study<\/a> by the IRS revealed that IRS employees spent more than half their time cruising the internet for personal reasons. <\/p>\n

But of course such freedom is brought to you, in part, by the letters N, S, F, and W.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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