September 2010
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Put your seat in upright position — if you have... →
Standing room only: Six passengers reportedly forced to stand on crowded five-hour Russian flight
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Peanut menace: Bullies use food to torment... →
This concludes today’s edition of awful, WTF, can-I-speak-to-your-parents-in-a-torture-chamber-please? news.
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4,100 Students Prove 'Small Is Better' Rule Wrong →
infoneer-pulse:
A decade ago, Brockton High School was a case study in failure. Teachers and administrators often voiced the unofficial school motto in hallway chitchat: students have a right to fail if they want. And many of them did — only a quarter of the students passed statewide exams. One in three dropped out.
Then Susan Szachowicz and a handful of fellow teachers decided to take action....
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“There was a time in music where a hit solved everything. That’s no longer true....”
– Jay-Z, Buffett and Forbes on Success and Giving Back Page 3 of 5 - Forbes.com (via mikehudack)
Watch“What about Elmo? He wasn’t even wearing pants.” - one of msnbc.com’s news editors, in reaction to Sesame Street’s decision to pull Katy Perry’s cleavage-baring segment
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Watchnightline:
We go behind the scenes tonight at Groupon, one of the fastest growing companies in the world, and perhaps one of the quirkiest. In the clip above, 29-year-old CEO Andrew Mason takes Chris Bury on a tour of “Michael’s Room,” a place where writers can go to relax, get inspired, and ride one very interesting bicycle.
How come we don’t have one of those bicycles in our office?
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Twitter hack fixed! Now back to your regularly... →
Twitter trust and safety team leader @delbius says: The XSS attack should now be fully patched and no longer exploitable. Thanks, those reporting it.
Teen sends Facebook invite to 15; 21,000 reply →
infoneer-pulse:
The Telegraph has been friendly enough to reveal the Facebook faux-pas performed by the teen. She decided to hold a birthday party at her mom’s house and mom kindly said she could invite 15 of her closest companions.
Being almost 15, what other forum could she possibly have considered than Facebook? So she created a nice little event page and waited, no doubt expectantly, for...
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BusinessWeek: Why office romance is on the wane →
The time-honored institution known as the office romance has survived threats like corporate no-fraternization policies, philandering chief executives, and David Letterman. (Or, in the recent case of former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, ambiguous contractors.) Now there’s a new legal menace: scorned workers who claim that an office affair fostered an invidious work environment, even...
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Christian college not cool with band called 'The... →
Astonishing. Just shocking. Really - who would have ever thought a school like Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. would do such a thing?
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Affleck admits Joaquin Phoenix documentary wasn't...
“It’s a terrific performance, it’s the performance of his career,” Mr. Affleck said.
Virtually none of it was real. Not even the opening shots, supposedly of Mr. Phoenix and his siblings swimming in a water hole in Panama. That, Mr. Affleck said, was actually shot in Hawaii with actors, then run back and forth on top of an old videocassette recording of “Paris, Texas” to degrade the...
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U.S. poverty rate jumps to 14.3 percent, highest... →
That’s 43.6 million people, or 1 in 7 in America.
Anyone have a favorite charity/food bank/donation center that you want to recommend to others?
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Woman left paralyzed by pole dancing class →
I’ll admit I often wondered about the likelihood of spinal chord injuries as aerobic pole-dancing classes became a thing.
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Study: Kids with autism don't experience... →
