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How to be the best manager in the world

Simply delightful parody at Slacker Manager, listing the Seven Habits Of Highly Ineffective Managers. I checked through the list feeling smug (I am, of course, flawless), until I got to this one…
Give someone on your team a project. Don’t tell them how important it is. Keep throwing more little balls at them until they drop [...]

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A complete history of the first time things happened

Oh, now I’m a happy boy. This is the sort of stuff you could lose years of your life to… The First Time News Was Fit To Print is a compilation of the first mentions in the New York Times of famous people, places, things and terms.Sound dull? You need to get out more…mental_floss magazine [...]

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Wonderful dig at Digg

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Billionaires spill the beans

Secrets Of The Self-Made 2007 – Forbes.comGripping reading. Taken the advice on board, can’t wait to begin implementing The Big Plan first thing on Monday morning…Yours,Delusional

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The human condition, captured in vegetation

Thank you, Bears and Buds. I wake up on a Saturday morning, wanting to put my head in the microwave after The Bastard Week From Hell. So I pick up my Mac to catch up on web-based comings and goings, and there’s this. Vegetables. Cut into the shapes of animals. This is what life’s about [...]

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Headline juxtapositions: as bad online as off

I grew up in print magazines, where the first rule was to watch for elements on a page – you’d be amazed how easy it is to miss a crass clash of headline and image or advertising message.So I felt a wave of deja vu when I spotted this over at Valleywag…

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FoxNews: sensational

A few days back from the San Francisco holiday, and I still have FoxNews’ television coverage of the Larry Craig story rattling around my head.
Even as a humble Brit, I know that Fox has a reputations for eye-catching news delivery. But although a good number of US media pundits are less than kind to Craig [...]

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