November 2008
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Thoughts on Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving in America is a combination package. On the one hand, dragging oneself through endless security lines and traffic jams to visit relatives with dubious entertainment value does not count as one of life’s most pleasurable activities. On the other hand, the activities embedded in the holiday–giving thanks, gratitude, reunion, and kingly feasting–are like a […]
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25 Thanksgiving Quotes and Conversation-Starters
One of the most fascinating aspects of Thanksgiving are the conversations that take place at the dinner table. The nature of these conversations naturally depends on whose company you’re in. More likely than not, you’ll be with family, meaning it’s time for pointed questions, embarassing stories, and recollections you’d rather keep buried. In other words, […]
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The Secrets Behind Mass Turkey Production
Slate has an informative ditty about how turkey suppliers meet huge Thanksgiving demand, which amounts to roughly 46 million turkeys during a single week. Suppliers must plan a year ahead: Market leader Butterball…has already begun the production cycle for next year’s holiday season. Eggs for breeder birds have been purchased from one of the world’s […]
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Idiocracy: The Death of Intelligent Advertising
This is a guest post from Office Newb Jacqui Tom. As a career blogger, I often receive emails from businesses asking me to write about their products or services. Usually these companies are small web-based start-ups that are looking to get free exposure on the internet, so I was surprised to receive an email from […]
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Jaguar Land Rover Asks for Bailout. This is Nonsense.
Jaguar Land Rover, which sells swanky vehicles to affluent folks, wants a bailout of its own (Financial Times): Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), which is owned by India’s Tata Motors, said…that government intervention in the industry was required. Help was needed to improve liquidity in the supply chain, support continued investment in carbon-reduction technology and stimulate […]
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Citigroup Bailout: Saving the Ogre
Lehman Bros. stockholders must be getting ready to file a class-action suite after this morning’s news (from MarketWatch): Citigroup shares jumped by more than 50% Monday morning after the U.S. government agreed to rescue the nation’s once largest bank and the pioneer of the one-stop-shop for business and consumer financial services in an eleventh-hour, $326 […]
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Does a Potty Mouth Pay?
As a partially reformed foul mouth, I’m always intrigued by cussing in the work place. For some businesses it’s obviously totally off limits. You can’t have the hostess at the Olive Garden telling you to sit your sorry a** down. However, in light of recent economic news, I can’t think of another time people would […]
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Y Would I Want To Work With Gen-Y?
This is a guest post by Dr. Jim Anderson, who blogs at The Business of IT. Just in case you’ve missed it, there is a major change happening in the workplace and it will end up affecting all of us. It turns out that the next generation of workers, Generation Y, is made up of […]
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Brands are Dead
This is a guest post from Dim Bulb‘s Jonathan Salem Baskin. Along with the crisis in financial markets, there’s another ugly truth we need to admit: brands are dead, and it’s time for marketers to admit it. Nobody carries brands around in their heads. Nobody has a relationship with a brand. Or lives a brand […]
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Give Windows 7 Away for Free
This is a guest post by Robert Barr of BlabrMouth. The scene: a nondescript office campus in the Seattle suburbs. It’s long past midnight but headlights from a late night coffee run enter the parking lot while assistants and interns scramble about inside. In a large conference room that appears to have been the scene […]
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Coolest New Franchise: Bishops Barbershop
Judging from the photograph, what type of franchise would you say Leo Rivera has launched? A tattoo parlor? Auto shop? Art gallery? None of the above. Rivera is the brains behind Bishops Barbershop, the latest in a string of hair cutting companies that offer an alternative to high priced salons and low-end joints without a […]
