Business Insider reports Facebook conducted a study in which they studied posts and comments in the last week of May. The most popular way of laughing online was: “Haha.” “LOL” was used by just 2% of users, and saw highest… Read More ›
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3 Tips For A Globe and Mail Writer On Writing A Piece About A Debate
The Globe and Mail published a piece by Kate Taylor today in which she rants about her inability to watch last night’s Republican Candidate Debate on a television. Taylor wrote: “The debate was airing on a channel well above the… Read More ›
What Does A Robot Have To Do To Hitch A Ride Around Here?
A Canadian hitch-hiking robot that successfully toured parts of the world was reportedly destroyed in Philadelphia by vandals. CBC reports that fake surveillance footage of the destruction of “HitchBOT” has surfaced online. 3 People We Suspect Decimated HitchBOT 1. The… Read More ›
3 Excuses For Sirius-XM’s Jenny Eliscu For Her Apparent Lack Of Metallica Or Lollapalooza Knowledge
Yesterday, we made light of the fact that Sirius-Xm Host Jenny Eliscu asked Metallica’s James Hetfield if they ever played Lollapalooza before in an interview aired on Alt Nation. We pointed out that a quick search on Google and Wikipedia… Read More ›
3 Tips For Sirius-Xm Alt-Nation When Interviewing Metallica
Sirius-Xm’s Jenny Eliscu was interviewing James Hetfield of Metallica during this weekend’s Lollapalooza festival. One of the first questions was along the lines of “So, you’ve never played Lollapalooza before?” Since we considered this a pretty uninformed interview on a North… Read More ›
Ford has figured out how to make coin-holder out of $400 in shredded U.S. currency
Yahoo Finance reports in this video that Ford is creating non-oil based plastics out of interesting materials: dandelions; stuff left over from manufacturing Ketchup; and shredded U.S. currency. Specifically, $400 worth of old currency, that would have been destined for… Read More ›
Study: Retirement Is Good For Your Health… Unless You Retire While Driving In A NASCAR Race
Yahoo Finance reports that a recent scientific study proves that retiring is good for your health, although the effects may not be noticeable for a few years. 3 Times We Suspect Retirement May Be Bad For Your Health 1. Retiring right… Read More ›
Now We Try To Guess Who Facebook’s New 49 Million Monthly Active Users Are
Facebook reported yesterday that monthly active users increased to 1.49 billion, or 49 million users. This compared to Twitter reporting 2 million new monthly active users earlier this week. We’ve been trying to guess this week who the 2 million… Read More ›
3 More Types of Monthly Active Users We Guess Are Using Twitter
Yesterday we wrote about Twitter’s monthly active users increasing from 302 million to 304 million people. Who are these mystery people? Here are 3 more guesses. 1. People who didn’t use Twitter every month until the Twitter app started sending… Read More ›
We Try To Guess Who Twitter’s Two Million New Users Are
Yahoo Finance reports that Twitter announced today that it’s monthly active users rose from 302 million to 304 million. Who are these new users? Here are three guesses. 1. Writers trying to get Twitter followers by following other writers back…. Read More ›
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