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Is Your Birthday Really A Special Day?
This chart will tell you just how common (or indeed, special) your birthday really is.
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Is Your Birthday Really A Special Day?
This chart will tell you just how common (or indeed, special) your birthday really is.
Facebook IPO Hilarity
Just in case this didn't reach your inbox, here's a hilarious fake letter from Mark Zuckerberg to potential Facebook investors, written by Andy Borowitz.
A Celebration of Marie Colvin
Is it right that this live wire of a woman, the strong woman amongst all the male war reporters with her rasping laugh, is dead? It seems impossible.
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Dialogue in the Dark
Forget the novel idea of dining in the dark. This is closer to the real deal: experiencing the world as someone without sight.
George Lucas: Hero Part II
OK, so we're not sorry we're his neighbours. But we very much like what he's doing with his land in Marin County, now that his neighbours have pissed him off.
Making Meaning: The New Money
It’s not long now before 5,000 more investment bankers start dusting off their CVs, beefing up their LinkdIn profiles, or decide to finally go from helping start-ups get acquired to starting up themselves.
U and Non-U
In this world of ostentatious living (where everything old is new again), let's remind ourselves of U and Non-U English usage. For what it's worth.
10 Words You Didn't Know
We can thank Merriam-Webster for this. We dare you to use one of them today (especially 'tittle'.)
Women At Work
This is a very interesting info-graphic looking at the progress and the struggles of women in the workplace.
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Five of the Best
Things we love, things we want, things we want to do, and things we think are just cool, interesting, or at least noteworthy.
- No doubt: these are the hippest speakers that could ever possibly bookend your computer. Is your music collection ready?
- An idea for your next rendezvous in Paris (or crazy weekend with friends): a private cruise in a motorboat for three hours of Champagne-fueled romance (or fun).
- While we are rarely ones to turn down a charitable opportunity, how about taking that pile of spring cleaning cast-offs to a car boot sale? We're pretty sure you could get a new handbag out of the proceeds...
- We're loving this bold, striped tie from Paul Stuart. The meek need not click.
- The coolest personalised cufflinks around are these. They include words, names or places, which run off the surface creating a rather ambiguous stream of letters. (And let's face it: a bit of mystery never hurt anyone.)
