A Flickr member shares this advertisement that has been running in a local Kentucky publication. The only thing missing I guess from this ad is maybe including an open bar or at least drink specials.
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How many of those braces that are part of his trademark look do you think Larry King owns? In a Q&A for TIME, he responds:
Never counted 'em. But my guess would be--there are suspenders in New York and Washington and, of course, at my home in Los Angeles--150. But they can't be clip-ons. Every pair of pants I buy--jeans, anything--we sew in the suspender buttons.
Now you know. You're welcome. Now go away.
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A couple Chinese guys had some pretty bad days. Up first is a bicyclist who runs into a gnarly pothole on the sidewalk.
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Next, we have Lai Jiansheng who helped along Chen Fuchao's suicide pondering on the Haizhu Bridge by shoving him onto an air mattress. He was annoyed at the traffic delay caused by Fuchao.
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Official White House Photo by Pete SouzaA character that F Scott Fitzgerald once disparaged by remarking "An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own jokes," might be making a comeback thanks to THE INTERNETS!!!! YAY!!!! [Via]
This is an older piece from the Atlantic Monthly written by Matthew Stewart who founded a consulting company despite his lack of MBA credentials. It's still an interesting read.
The strange thing about my utter lack of education in management was that it didn’t seem to matter. As a principal and founding partner of a consulting firm that eventually grew to 600 employees, I interviewed, hired, and worked alongside hundreds of business-school graduates, and the impression I formed of the M.B.A. experience was that it involved taking two years out of your life and going deeply into debt, all for the sake of learning how to keep a straight face while using phrases like “out-of-the-box thinking,” “win-win situation,” and “core competencies.” When it came to picking teammates, I generally held out higher hopes for those individuals who had used their university years to learn about something other than business administration.
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[The new FML: My Life is Average. MLIA.
President Obama's classy commencement speech at Arizona State University where he spins into a positive lesson the controversy surrounding the university's decision to not award him a ceremonial diploma on the premise that the President had not "done enough to merit an honorary degree. " Part 1
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A missing child to be first displayed on milk cartons remains still missing nearly 30 years later.
Etan was 6 when he disappeared on May 25, 1979, the Friday before Memorial Day. He was on his way to school in what is now the upscale Soho neighborhood of New York.
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There is such a thing as taking a drinking game way too seriously.
Joseph B. Jimenez, 24, was charged with first-degree murder for allegedly fatally shooting his opponent, Scott Riley, 25, following a game of beer pong at a Bridgeport home Friday night.
People, keep that elbow BEHIND the line.
Scientists ran a simple experiment "to determine whether spiders in flood-prone marshes had evolved to survive longer underwater than forest-dwelling spiders can." As expected, the spiders eventually all died. Or so they THOUGHT.
Hours later, the spiders began twitching and were soon back on their eight feet."This is the first time we know of arthropods returning to life from comas after submersion," said lead researcher Julien Pétillon, an arachnologist now at Ghent University in Belgium.
WHAT THE FUCK. It's discoveries like this that adds to my ongoing fear of spiders.
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The Evening Standard's relaunch awareness campaign apologizes to readers for their previous incarnation's reportage.
It is believed that "@" or the "at" sign originated from monks in the pre-printing press era as they were tasked with copying the Holy Scriptures tediously by hand, a "laborious process that encouraged typographical shorthand."
In 1536, "Francesco Lapi, a Florentine merchant, uses the @ symbol while penning a letter. It’s the first recorded use of the “at” sign outside a monastery."
More @ the New York Times.
5-year-old Édgar Hernández of La Gloria, Mexico has been identified as the first person to have come down with this swine flu. Glad he survived.
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From a New York Times slideshow, "Global Response to Swine Flu," this "thermographic device at the arrival gate at Narita International Airport" monitors arriving passengers' body temperatures.
However, I have to go through a separate entrance because I'd always register...HOT. HYHOOO.