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Why Rudy Kurniawan Was Arrested for Wine Fraud — New York Magazine "Also, one thing not high on the FBI’s list of investigative priorities: billionaires getting snowed by wine forgers." (tags: none)

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Why Being Interesting Might Be More Important Than Being Different – Canalside View When it comes to the output of marketing- and adland, the truth of the matter is that people don’t really expect that much from us. Most of what our industry puts out into the world lies somewhere between being risible or being […]

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Im trying to find the name of a comedian. He talks about the shut the hell up card. Hes kinda fat.? (tags: none)

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シングルページのモダンなページ集２５:phpspot開発日誌 starred items / from phpspot開発日誌 http://phpspot.org/blog/ (tags: none)

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Knowing and Making: Behavioural economics: the Kylie Minogue of market research It's time to abandon the false tension between "rationality" and "irrationality". Our minds process information and choose actions in a way that is locally rational. But when viewed globally, these choices show that there are conflicts between the different interests and needs that a […]

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Life With and Without Animated Ducks: The Future Is Gender Distributed – Charlie’s Diary In the "male" sphere, of professional operations, offices, corporations, pop culture, businesses, the available technology was extremely high-level, better than anywhere I'd yet lived. In the "female" sphere, the home, domestic duties, daily chores, cleaning, heating, anything inside the walls of […]

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Interview With an Element: Chlorine | The Hairpin "His idea of disinfecting your hands after dissection of a cadaver and assisting in the delivery room was so new at the time it was rejected by the medical profession for decades. Semmelweis died at the age of 47 of gangrene after a severe beating in a […]

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Letters of Note: Nothing good gets away The other is an outpouring of everything good in you—of kindness and consideration and respect—not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. (tags: none)

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Fail Worse – The New Inquiry ZING "But for some reason, Ferris fails to take the opportunity to allude to Beckett anywhere else in his million-selling guide on “How to Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich.” " (tags: none)

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John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74 – NYTimes.com To please his mother, who did not take kindly to his being a pirate, he briefly managed a mink farm, one of the few truly dull entries on his otherwise crackling résumé, which lately included a career as a professional gambler. (tags: none)

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