If I said to you, “It’s a Small World After All,” you would inevitably start humming the tune. But if I tried to clear the musical part of your brain by suggesting another catchy tune, called “There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow,” that would almost certainly be no help at [Keep reading]
“I already swept the floor” said the annoyed woman behind the cash register, yelling over her shoulder to no one in particular. She managed to take my order, and my money, without ever looking at me. It was the 100th transaction recently that occurred at this particular brand of coffee [Keep reading]
There’s been a lot of yelling about equal pay in the news lately. It’s a discussion I’d rather not wade deeply into, because boiling national labor data down to a single data point is the place where logic goes to die. Everyone knows there’s a long history of pay discrimination [Keep reading]
Something has gone horribly wrong with AOL email, and here’s what you need to know. 1) If you get an email from an AOL.com email address, treat it as toxic – even if it appears to comes from a friend. 2) If you have, or had, and AOL email account, [Keep reading]
If you are paying more than 20 percent of your income in federal taxes, you are doing it wrong. That’s roughly what the Obamas pay every year — hey, at least it’s more than Mitt Romney. As you should know by now, Obama pays a lower real tax rate than [Keep reading]
Nearly everyone I know is busy to the point of being frantic, but being busy isn’t only a matter of having a full schedule. Often, I feel like the weight of the things on your schedule matters even more. My biggest worry isn’t having a full schedule — I love [Keep reading]
If you are really concerned about privacy, then you probably shouldn’t use Facebook. But if you are like a billion people on the planet, you’ve decided that Facebook’s tradeoff between sharing and privacy is worth it. That’s certainly reasonable. Plenty of non-Facebookers today complain that they miss out on a lot [Keep reading]
It’s the first nice Friday in about five months on the East Coast, and I just walked across a busy street and passed a mom pushing her 2 or 3 year old in a stroller, the child playing with the mom’s iPhone all the way. At least they were crossing [Keep reading]
The single best thing that could happen for American families, waistlines, sanity, and even worker productivity would be an update to American overtime pay rules. President Obama is planning to expand the number of workers entitled to overtime pay by several million, perhaps through administrative order. The step is sure [Keep reading]
In the technology arms race between parents and children, kids have a new weapon: Yik Yak. A simple app for mobile devices, Yik Yak sets up temporary, anonymous chats among users who are near each other, based on GPS location. It’s less than four months old, but already, it’s causing [Keep reading]
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