Yahoo Finance reports that Amazon is planning to pay self-published authors by the number of pages of their books that Amazon customers read. 3 Observations About This Story 1. We suspect you’ll earn more writing 250 one-page books than one… Read More ›
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Swedish Employee’s Pay Docked For Six Years For Using Facebook For Like Five Minutes (Yes This Is Hyperbole)
The Local (Sweden’s News In English) reports that an employee of an insurance agency called “Försäkringskassan” has been docked 15 days’ pay for spending over 40 hours of company time using social media. Multiple employees were docked pay for allegedly visiting… Read More ›
High School Kids Like Beats Better Than World Wide Web
The Atlantic reports that a survey indicates that web sites are not popular among high school kids. Specifically, kids go to apps these days, with Pandora and even each Beats receiving more daily users than web sites. 3 Possible Explanations… Read More ›
Celebrity Love: True Or Fake?
Whenever we get a chance, we at Not The Worst News like to write posts on the entries of readers who follow us. So we recently decided that whoever our 1,000th follower was, we’d visit their blog, and write an… Read More ›
Tumblr Site Proves Eyebrows Do Make Awesome Mustaches!
A new Tumblr site called “Browstache” by Sam Cannon takes photos of celebrities and uses some sort of photo-altering, magical technology to move their eyebrows above their mouths, like a classic mustache! The results look remarkably natural and you can… Read More ›
If You Go On Dates To Get Free Meals And Blog About It, You, Too, May Get To Negotiate A TV Deal…
Earlier this year, we wrote about a Toronto woman who goes on dates with men to get free meals and then blogs about it. QMI Agency reports that she may now get a Reality TV show, taking her adventures to… Read More ›
Spotify Survey Suggests People Aren’t Good At Listening To Song Lyrics… Even After Release Of Books And Web Sites Mocking That
CNN reports that Spotify has identified the most misinterpreted song lyric, in a survey that asks people which songs they hear other people misinterpreting while singing at places like concerts, and karaoke bars (with correct lyrics presumably on screen.) And… Read More ›
Study: Acting Like You Know What You’re Talking About, When You Have No Clue About What You’re Talking About, Will Get People To Believe You! Trust Us, We Know It’s True!
Yahoo reports that a study by graduate students from Washington State University indicates that people tend to believe what you say, whether verbally or in writing, if you use loud, confident language… even if you have no clue what you… Read More ›
Good Will Haunting
Earlier this week, funny blogger Diatribes & Ovations nominated this blog for the WordPress Family Award. That blog has a tagline: “Because RantsAndRaves was already taken.” And we would like to give an ovation to the person who thought of… Read More ›
3 More Examples Of Quality American Infrastructure To Improve Its D+ Rating
Yesterday we wrote about how the American Society of Civil Engineers gave America’s infrastructure a D+ rating in an annual ranking of infrastructure such as ports, rail, and solid waste. And congratulations, Solid Waste, you achieved the highest grade in… Read More ›
