If you are feeling down in the dumps or just extra generous, doing a good deed for someone else can make you feel amazing. Doing something wonderful for someone else without expecting anything in return is good for the soul. It is extremely rewarding, grounding and will make someone else’s day. So how do you go about […]
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Seth Godin’s Word of the Day: Ellipsis
Welcome back to my ongoing series called Seth Godin’s Word of the Day. You see, Seth Godin will, on a lot of occasions, drop a word in his daily blog posts. What defines a heavy word, you ask? Not sure really. I guess it’s a word that, when I read it, sounds like an “above average” […]
Happy 410th birthday Pierre de Fermat, creator of the famous Last Theorem equation that went unsolved for 358 years and earned a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most difficult math problem ever. What’s the probability (no pun intended…) that someone can create a mathematical problem in the year 1637, and […]
There are obvious winners in today’s news about Google acquiring Motorola Mobility for $40 per share, or $12.5 billion in cash. And there is no one more of a winner today than the iconic investor Carl Icahn. Carl Icahn owns 26.8 million shares of Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI). And when Google announced an acquisition of Motorola […]
This story comes to us tonight out of Russia. The Russian authorities are currently investigating a strange death occurrence where a woman was killed by a homemade missile that was launched by her husband. According to news that has been released so far out of Russia, the wife was standing on the edge of a […]
Remember the iPhone 4? Wait… even more ancient, the days before the iPhone 4 were launched? In tech years, that’s like a lifetime ago. But in those historic days (around March 2010, less than 1.5 years ago), do you remember when Gizmodo purchased an iPhone 4 prototype? Well, finally, the California district attorney’s office has […]
Seth Godin’s Word of the Day: Revolution
Yesterday I posted my very first Seth Godin’s Word of the Day, which was “Excoriate“. And continuing in my long standing tradition (1 day) today’s word from Seth is a bit less extravagant but powerful none the less, especially in the context in which he uses the word. Seth Godin’s Word of the Day: Revolution Sentence (from […]