Last year, the US Travel Association found that 28% of workers did not take vacation so that they could prove their dedication and not be seen as slackers. Another 40% were afraid of the work they’d have to do when they got back from vacation.
A government-controlled industry group targeted popular food bloggers, major publications and a celebrity chef as part of its sweeping effort to combat a perceived threat from an egg-replacement startup backed by some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names, the Guardian can reveal.
The lobbyists’ media counterattack, in possible violation of US department of agriculture rules, was coordinated by a marketing arm of the egg industry called the American Egg Board (AEB). It arose after AEB chief executive Joanne Ivy identified the fledgling technology startup Hampton Creek as a “crisis and major threat to the future” of the $5.5bn-a-year egg market.
Sometimes, everybody needs a break from everybody. Enter Avoid Humans—a web-based app that combs data from Foursquare and Instagram check-ins, giving you the nearest places in your area with the least amount of humans. The app is divided into four categories-nightlife, food, coffee and refuge—and each location is color coded to indicate the current level of human presence.
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Since July 2011, They Boldly Went has striven to stand out from the rest of Tumblr, providing original Star Trek content on a regular basis. I’ve had a lot of success so far, but I’d like to take the site to warp factor 8, and that’s going to require a little help from you guys.
In recent months, I’ve been working harder on the site, offering up things that you simply won’t find elsewhere, like this collection of stamps that were packaged with Star Trek candy cigarettes, this photo of Williams Shatner and Campbell on the set of “The Squire of Gothos”, a press kit from The Star Trek Adventure, a complete set of Topps Star Trek stickers from 1976 and I’ve even been even going into fandom’s past so you can see how earlier generations expressed their love for the show.
This is stuff that no one else is covering on Tumblr or the web at large right now and I want to feature more things like that. I also want to create more long-form content, comics and maybe even video for the site.
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YouTube also has the episode about Farmer Jonathan Bell. Bell, the modern industrialised farmer – who is portrayed throughout the episode as a perfectly nice, pleasant man – discovers that the local villagers are buying fewer of his eggs. Investigations reveal that they are buying instead from Windy Miller’s free range operation, because free range eggs are nicer. Windy points out that he cannot scale up his operation to truly compete and that Bell can still sell all his eggs to the major distribution chains, so they can both happily coexist.
This discussion of free range farming and industrialised economies of scale complete, the narrator concludes the episode with this address to Bell: “Hello, Farmer Bell! Are you selling all your eggs now? I expect you’re sorry that the people in Camberwick Green think that your eggs aren’t as nice as Windy’s. Never mind! You are giving more eggs to more people more cheaply than he can. And that’s a great thing. And you are the most modern farmer in Camberwick Green. Goodbye, Farmer Bell!” I’m fairly sure it didn’t seem so passive aggressive when I was three.
Paul O’Brien takes on British kids’ TV of our youth. It’s really, really good stuff.
Hey, Mr. Van Diesel, I am poor yes, but I must admit, I dug Iron Giant, if you would forgive me for my past actions representing what I lived like before and what I purpose what I would like to live like…I would like to say hey, I loved Iron Giant, I want in….please…..if you are willing to give me some pointers I will do my best to give you a helping hand…..dug the personality you gave your man. the character dude. Way out.
Best spam I have ever received? Very possibly.
“I’ve said it since the day he made the sacrifice to hit the campaign trail: voters crave the anti-status quo politician,” said Palin, John McCain’s surprise pick for vice-president in 2008, in her introduction, seated alone in a studio that could have been the bridge of the Starship Enterprise.
“They want results. They need someone to fire all the politically correct police. This is a movement.” It was a movement so radical, so inspiring, it moved Palin to speak French. “Everything about Donald Trump’s campaign is … avant garde.”
A Review of Vox Day’s New Book SJWs Always Lie
A Review of Vox Day’s New Book SJWs Always Lie
A new update to my actual, like, writing of stuff blog, Philip Sandifer: Writer
I actually read the Kindle preview of this book last night. It’s an astonishing piece of work, and not in the complimentary way.