Get Rich Slowly shares a few money saving hacks by cutting costs on transportation.
You don’t need to be productive every minute of the day. Zen Habits explains why killing time ain’t such a bad thing.
How many times have you texted “can’t talk now” or “busy, will chat later” or “I hate you and you ruined my life!” Okay, perhaps that last one is only reserved for divorces and people who try to get you to change your cable plan, but chances are you’ve spent a little too much time updating people with the same dozen messages, mostly on how you’re too busy to update them. Read Gizmodo’s great article on how Apple will soon be assisting you in blowing off your friends and providing excuses like a boss.
Happy 236th birthday, America. It’s the 4th of July. Enjoy your hotdogs, your parades, and your family-safe fireworks. Unless you live in Missouri, then forget “family-safe,” because you can set off pretty much anything with a wick in that state so long as it doesn’t contain enriched uranium.
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Martha Judelson cleans corporate housing. Every day she drives to a vast, bland plot of land 8 miles from Bob Hope airport near Burbank California. The land houses a complex of 215 small apartments full of analysts, consultants, insurance investigators, and other white collar travelers in need of a temporary home away from home. The décor bridges the gap between cozy and soulless, every unit is identical, and identically manicured before each new resident moves in. Martha does the manicuring.