Ogilvy China later confirmed the sad details of Li’s passing in a tweet.
— http://gawker.com/ad-agency-employee-drops-dead-in-office-from-work-rela-507499826
Word Skillz
Diving for oddly shaped pearls in the ocean of words
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2013-05-17
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2013-05-15
American dies trying to dribble soccer ball to Brazil
— http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/15/american-dies-dribble-soccer-brazil
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2013-05-07
Fire4Mom, no better way to celebrate. (from amazon.com)
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2013-05-05
Time passes very slowly when you’re in a hippo’s mouth.
— htttp://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/may/04/i-was-swallowed-by-a-hippo
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2013-04-18
Either my work is not effective, or the work of all of you is not effective, and you must go. Today I am leaning toward the second alternative.
— Spoken like a true emperor. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2013/04/20134188182880115.html
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2013-04-09
Fact-checkers do a lot of great work, but they can’t solve the nature of reality for us.
— http://therumpus.net/2012/04/the-rumpus-interview-with-elif-batuman/
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2013-04-08
He promised to feature indie bands, magicians, fortunetelling machines, maybe a puppeteer. ‘I was trying to create a night to bring back Ibiza like it used to be 30 years ago,’ he said last week. “I want to freak people out.’
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2013-04-04
Dung Beetles Follow the Stars
— http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2013/01/24/dung-beetles-follow-the-stars/
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2013-04-03
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics does not collect employment or wage data on rodeo clowns.
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2013-04-02
The theme of Skyfall is that the world must remain safe for white Englishmen to run around shooting people who aren’t white and English.
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2013-04-01
Need for Speed: An Efficient Algorithm for Calculation of Single-Parameter Expected Value of Partial Perfect Information
— http://www.valueinhealthjournal.com/issues?issue_key=S1098-3015%2813%29X0002-6
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2013-03-29
They often surround themselves with skilled professional gatekeepers, whose job is to fend off people like us. Even their gatekeepers have gatekeepers.
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2013-03-28
Пришли к выводу, что образ хлеба и само слово «хлеб» не является каким-то обыденным, само по себе слово «хлеб», возможно, несет какой-то сакральный смысл, как стратегический продукт. (We concluded that the concept of bread and the word ‘bread’ are not ordinary, and the word ‘bread’ bears some kind of sacred meaning as a strategic product.)
— http://smartnews.ru/regions/kostroma/5744.html#ixzz2OdZYFJ44
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2013-03-19
She also entertains the possibility that Humbert Humbert is Jewish: ‘As surely as Humbert’s sins are his own, and unforgivable, it is also true that he has been broken by history.’
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2013-03-15
To everything there is a season, and the season for pharmacy risk sharing seems to be coming to an end.
