Thanks, Justin! And what a warm welcome from That Anonymous Dude. I feel at home already. Though I do feel the need to point out that I know more about taxation in northern Europe than you have been led to believe. I once wrote an entire sentence on the topic.
So, today I’d like to talk about a story you’ve probably never heard anything …
Hear me out here. (Or, at least, hear Justin Fox out; he forwarded me the link.) According to Bespoke Investment Group,
We’ve all heard of the Super Bowl Indicator, but have you ever heard of the Swimsuit Issue Indicator? Over the last 30 years, an American has appeared on the cover of the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 15
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I keep this card above my computer that my husband gave me for Valentine’s Day years ago. Back when we still did cards on Valentine’s day. Back when we still did Valentine’s Day. I’m guessing 1993.
(For a bittersweet bah humbug on the Hallmark holiday, do read Nancy Gibbs’ essay in this week’s TIME.)
I’m an Aries. Here’s what it …
Thrilling news! I have lined up a sucker friend and colleague to take over for me for the rest of this week and all of next! Her name is Barbara Kiviat (you can read her recent Time articles here). She’s younger than me and smarter than me and works harder than me, and, most importantly, she’s a one-time recipient of a Johns Hopkins …
I’ve long aspired to work for The Onion. Only I hear their dental plan isn’t as good.
But this ain’t no spoof. It’s fo real. Barack Obama has a new constituency: a town in Japan called, yes, Obama. From The Guardian:
As the race for the nomination heated up, the town’s tourism office received a stream of calls from locals wishing Obama
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I know, I know, I’m not a political blogger and I’m not supposed to be doing anything but working on my book this week. But I was thinking in the shower this morning (no kiddin’) about whether long service on Capitol Hill, in particular in the Senate, is the kiss of death for a presidential candidate. The traits that make you a …
Last October, I posted about a so-wacky-it’s-brilliant workplace invention called the WalkStation. Steelcase, the workspace designers, came up with this answer to productivity-hobbling obesity: a treadmill equipped with a computer and stationed right inside your cubicle, so you can walk as you work. Check it out:
See, I said there’d be pictures! “Pre-war,” in New York real estate parlance, means anything built before the 1940s. This sign, in case you can’t tell, adorns a hole in the ground. I assume that what the developers are trying to say is that the building they’re putting up will look like the surrounding apartment houses, most of which …
One of the perks, if you can call it that, of working at the world’s largest media company is that we get copies of our magazines for free. I began to see this as more of a curse when I realized I was drowning in my weekly accumulation of Fortune Small Business, Coastal Living, Time for Kids and People en Espanol. And I don’t speak …
I know, I know, I promised to make no more mention of The Myth of the Rational Market until I had finished the manuscript. But my failure to finish things up over the past few weeks has motivated me to take the rest of this week off to work on it. So apart from maybe a photo or two, or any cool discoveries I make while delving through …
Brooke Shields as Wendy in Lipstick Mafia. Or is it Cashmere Jungle? No, wait: it’s Sex and the Stressed Out, Sleepless Mama. / NBC
A few months ago, someone sent me the pilots to two upcoming TV series: Lipstick Jungle and Cashmere Mafia. They were oddly, even spookily, alike. I sort of vaguely knew their genesis: that Sex and the City …
In the run-up to the final primary smackdown, much dissecting is going on of various demographic groups and their voting preferences. Asian-Americans, for example, are said to vote Democratic, and to prefer Hillary Clinton. New America Media reports on a poll conducted by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund that found, in …
