August 2012
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Swedish tacos
About two years ago I applied for Navigators, an organization that matches up foreign exchange students with UF students to help facilitate their transition to the ol’ vida Americana, and enable foreign relations.
And two years ago I got an email telling me there were not enough students to pair up with. Bummed about it I never applied for it again. Pretty lame, I know.
But then, as luck...
Who inherits your iTunes library? →
infoneer-pulse:
Many of us will accumulate vast libraries of digital books and music over the course of our lifetimes. But when we die, our collections of words and music may expire with us.
Someone who owned 10,000 hardcover books and the same number of vinyl records could bequeath them to descendants, but legal experts say passing on iTunes and Kindle libraries would be much more...
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Why am I already a senior?
They say life is all about adjusting and embracing change and I feel that the reason I sometimes think that I am good at this is because I am so busy I don’t even notice the changes as they happen. But then days like today I stop for two minutes and feel a wave of nostalgia wash over me.
This is particularly appropriate now that I am beginning my last fall semester at UF (provided I...
Which profession drinks the most coffee?
adverve:
An annual survey conducted by Dunkin’ Donuts and CareerBuilder finds that PR and marketing pros are the second-biggest coffee drinkers in all the working land, just behind scientists and lab technicians. Doesn’t it feel good to know you require about as much joe as the average world-saver?
Infographic put together by I Love Coffee, who expressed disappointment that IT workers, like...
Advice for your 20s
newsweek:
rachelfershleiser:
emchughes:
synecdoche:
1. Stop reading articles full of dumb advice for your 20s.
I am turning 25 on Friday and this is my resolution.
Advice for people in their 20s:
- Just sleep with him.
- Just quit already.
- Just buy the plane ticket.
- Avoid bedbugs.
#4 particularly important.
“Thanks to the “Chuck Norris Facts,” I have been able to really connect with...”
– Chuck Norris on Chuck Norris Facts, from his 10 Things Chuck Norris Loves About America list we’ve got up on the site today. (Spoiler: For whatever reason it’s not eagles, eagles, eagles, guns, guns, eagles.)
“You have a perception of the way things are, and you impose it on your memory,...”
– Keith Ridgway on writing novels and everything as fiction: http://nyr.kr/RqA8sN
“Yay! Congrats to the U.S. ██████’s ██████ team for ██████ Olympic ██████! So...”
– Want that world? Don’t support NBC’s tape delay. #KeepItLive
Getting your customers to the street, one at a...
adverve:
Ultimat Vodka sent dudes with signs up the sides of buildings in Manhattan, to display messages to the workers who were stuck inside. And then offered them free drinks, if they left their office and came outside. Genius.
Watchadverve:
The New Yorker Invades iPhone, Aided & Abetted by Jon Hamm + Lena Dunham
The New Yorker’s produced a snappy new iPhone app that lets users download its issues, automatically, every week! (This week it’s free, so snatch that bad-boy up.)
The iPhone app resembles the existing iPad app in terms of functionality, providing complete magazine content and digital easter eggs. It’ll also...
Peace and Oreos, Hand in Hand
adverve:
Your pupil-dilator of the day: Oreo fêtes the landing of Mars rover Curiosity with a sweet little Tweet showing an Oreo with tracks: the perfect roved-Mars food shot. And so easy to reproduce at home!
Meanwhilst, Curiosity begins his earnest trek after traveling a whoppin’ 18 months to get to the Red Planet. Adam Seltzner, head of Curiosity’s descent and landing team, reports...
