November 2010
1 post
A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web →
wumbly:
Despite its lame title, this article is fascinating: detailing how a rogue eye wear merchandiser slipped through the “consumer safeguards” of Citibank, Ebay, and most compellingly, Google. I would be outraged, but I’m struck by the genius of search engine optimization through negative, not positive, buzz. This glasses site snags first page ranking for several keyword searches because...
February 2010
1 post
Engineer buys $3k worth of pudding: gets over 1mil... →
mollybierman:
2arrs2ells:
thehiso:
flandrea:
In 1999, UC-Davis civil engineer David Phillips was grocery shopping when he noticed something peculiar. Healthy Choice Foods was offering frequent-flyer miles to customers who bought its products. But a 25-cent pudding would bring 100 miles — the reward was worth more than the product itself.
Recognizing a good thing, Phillips bought 12,150...
January 2010
1 post
wtf happened to tumblarity?!
(via kathychoi)
You need to follow http://staff.tumblr.com !!
December 2009
1 post
“Formed in Los Angeles in 1992, Weezer had a handful of hits two years later with...”
– Rivers Cuomo “suffered minor injuries” in bus skid.
They probably pulled this paragraph out of their obituary drafts. This will be Rivers’ obituary someday.
This is the best they can say about Weezer. And I can’t say I blame them.
Considering how many albums Weezer has released after the blue...
November 2009
1 post
thehiso:
collectingraindrops:
2arrs2ells:
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October 2009
3 posts
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mollybierman:
so i’ve officially been a working girl for 7 weeks now. a number of people (mostly people still in school) have asked me what I found to be the biggest adjustment so far.
one would reasonably assume it would be something like having to work for many hours straight (as opposed to in college where you have all those random breaks throughout the day) or not getting things like fall...
The Next Youth-Magnet Cities -- from WSJ.com →
mollybierman:
#1 DC
#8 Durham
#9 Dallas
yeah! apparently I (among others) like cities that start with D!
Not to mention Denver!
