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March 2009

Overqualified: Thursday, March 5th 2009

by greut

Cover letters are all the same. They're useless. You write the same lies over and over again, listing the store-bought parts of yourself that you respect the least. God knows how they tell anyone apart, but this is how it's done.

And then one day a car comes out of nowhere, and suddenly everything changes and you don't know if he'll ever wake up. You get out of bed in the morning, and when you sit down to write another paint-by-numbers cover letter, something entirely different comes out.

You start threatening instead of begging. You tell impolite jokes. You talk about your childhood and your sexual fantasies. You sign your real name and you put yourself honestly into letter after letter and there is no way you are ever going to get this job. Not with a letter like this.

And you send it anyway.

Agency Skeptical of Internet Privacy Policies - NYTimes.com

by karlcow

The Federal Trade Commission had some sharp words for Internet companies Thursday, saying that they are not explaining to their users clearly enough what information they collect about them and how they use it for advertising.

February 2009

Interest Rate Cuts All Round?

by polyxena
Thursday will have a similar deal - the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England announce their interest rates. The ECB is forecast - only forecast - to keep things the same, resisting any pressure to cut - which the larger members of the EU, France, Germany, would prefer - but others, Portugal, for example are dead against it.

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January 2009

Sony Expects $3 Billion Loss for the Year - NYTimes.com

by karlcow

Sony, the Japanese electronics company, said Thursday that it expected to post a record annual operating loss of nearly $3 billion because of the rapid deterioration of the global economy. It also announced a major restructuring that will include layoffs and factory closings.

UPDATE: Nokia Says Profit Drops 69%, Lowers 2009 View

by karlcow

Nokia Corp., the world's largest maker of mobile phones, on Thursday posted a 69% drop in fourth-quarter profit as demand for its phones waned during the key holiday season, particularly in emerging markets like China.

Creative Thursday: everything is always going to be alright

by blackgoldfish (via)
"everything is going to be alright. [...] Hard to see sometimes, but always true when I look back over my life. "

Datejs - A JavaScript Date Library » About…

by Xavier Lacot & 9 others
A comprehensive javascript date library. A large panel of syntaxes are supported ("today", "next thursday", "last june", "2009/12/28", "2009/28/11é, etc.

November 2008

YouTube - Police dash cam of Meteor over Edmonton, Canada

by Spone
Police dash cam of Meteor over Edmonton, Canada. Filmed about 5:30pm Thursday November 20th 2008

October 2008

Internet Archive: Details: Allen Ginsberg performing William Blake.

by tadeufilippini (via)
A reading by Allen Ginsberg performing William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Songs of Innocence includes: "The Shepherd," "The Echoing Green," "The Lamb," "The Little Black Boy," "The Blossom," "The Chimney Sweeper," "The Little Boy Lost," "The Little Boy Found," "Laughing Song," and "Holy Thursday." Songs of Experience includes: "Nurse's Song," "The Sick Rose," "Ah Sunflower," "The Garden of Love," "London," "The Human Abstract," "To Tirzah" and "The Grey Monk."

September 2008

Nonjatta: Japanese Whisky History (1918-1919): Unlocking Scotland, Part I

by sbrothier
On Thursday April 17, 1919, Masataka Taketsuru walked into the ramshackle wooden buildings of Glasgow`s Buchanan Street Station and boarded the Caledonian Railway train going north. It was a historic moment.

June 2008

BBC - Radio Labs - Removing Microformats from bbc.co.uk/programmes

by karlcow 2 comments

hCalendar will be gone from /programmes by the next deploy (probably this Thursday). In the meantime we'll be looking at the possible use of RDFa (a slightly bigger S semantic web technology similar to microformats but without some of the more unexpected side-effects).

microformats out, RDFa peut-être in

May 2008

MichaelMoore.com : California's top court overturns gay marriage ban

by soul1383
SAN FRANCISCO - In a monumental victory for the gay rights movement, the California Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage Thursday in a ruling that would allow same-sex couples in the nation's biggest state to tie the knot. Domes

March 2008

Twitter / Scobleizer

by springnet
I am interviewing Amazon's Werner Vogels on Thursday at under the radar conference. Scoble minute by minute on twitter

Minnie

by Hemanshu
Actress Minnie Driver arrives at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards in this Sept. 16, 2007, file photo at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Driver, 38, who appeared as guest on the 'The Tonight Show' with Jay Leno Thursday, March 13, 2008, said during the show that she is pregnant. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)

Pussycat Dolls

by Hemanshu
A model poses on the runway at the Pussycat Dolls by Robin Antin fashion show during Mercedes Benz fashion week in Culver City, Calif., Thursday, March 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

February 2008

Black Leader, a Clinton Ally, Tilts to Obama - NYT

by ravi
Representative John Lewis, an elder statesman from the civil rights era and one of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s most prominent black supporters, said Thursday night that he planned to cast his vote as a superdelegate for Senator Barack Obama in hopes of preventing a fight at the Democratic convention.

House Holds Bush Aides in Contempt - NYT

by ravi
The House voted Thursday to hold two of President Bush's confidants in contempt for failing to cooperate with an inquiry into whether a purge of federal prosecutors was politically motivated.

Fed Chief Hints at Further Rate Cuts - NYT

by ravi
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Thursday that the country's economic outlook has deteriorated and signaled that the central bank is ready to keep on lowering a key interest rate -- as needed -- to shore things up.

Retailers Report Weak January Sales - NYT

by ravi
The nation's retailers delivered more evidence of a stumbling economy Thursday, as merchants reported their weakest January performance in nearly four decades, extending a malaise that has deepened since the holiday shopping season.

December 2007

lecool magazine

by topdos & 2 others
le cool magazine is a free, weekly magazine presenting a selection of concerts, djs, exhibitions, odd movies and other cultural events and happenings. It is also a clever guide to the city's most worthwhile bars, restaurants, shopping and other experiences, without being necessarily trendy - just really good. Instead of printing and distributing a paper magazine it is sent every Thursday to its subscribers as a graphical e-mail, laid-out in a horizontal format with pages, as if it were a traditional magazine. Sign up now, it's free and totally painless! Read this week's le cool

October 2007

邊日結婚好?

by blackgoldfish 1 comment
「Monday for wealth / Tuesday for health / Wednesday the best day of all / Thursday for crosses / Friday for losses / Saturday no luck at all」

September 2007

Viacom's Flux: It's MyBlogLog for the cooler kids | Crave : The gadget blog

by mozkart
We reported on Thursday that MTV Networks was close to announcing plans for a new social network; later that night, Fortune unveiled more details of the project. This is a new Viacom (MTV Networks parent company) endeavor called Flux, which is growing out of what once was Tagworld. Rather than being a "destination" social network, Flux is a distributed platform of social-media features that will be installed on select Viacom niche sites (like the Subterranean Blog, which we pointed out in our original post). It's powered by Social Project, the company formerly known as Tagworld, which Viacom invested in last year. What this really resembles is MyBlogLog, the start-up purchased by Yahoo that adds social-networking features to blogs by letting visitors see who else is reading a site. It appears that Flux, however, will have stronger social features; it also won't be restricted to MTV Networks. A note on Flux.com says the platform "is robust enough for large media companies, such as MTV Networks, and flexible enough for influencer blog sites like Aquarium Drunkard, Vinyl Pulse and X1." We smell advertising opportunities. Some Viacom divisions are also launching smaller social-networking initiatives; MTV's Think MTV activism-oriented vertical site, for example, now allows interested users to sign up for the beta version of a community site. It's not clear whether these will be Flux-ified or not.

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