For those who are not contend with chalking up “friends” online, now you can boost your tally offline as well. A service called Satisfly aims to seat frequent flyers in an “intelligent” way by mining passenger data so that they end up sitting next to somebody with whom they have something in common – whether… Read More »
…this isn’t gonna work. Like the troubleshooting scripts straight out of a Windows help playbook, Hunch purportedly allows users to harvest the collective wisdom of Netizens by answering questions they’re interested in and then getting a second opinion based on some information about themselves as well as the answers of those who have jumped through… Read More »
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A colleague was so pissed off at work recently that she used expletives to describe her fellow workers. Considering she’s Chinese and probably doesn’t have a firm handle on swearing using the F-word, here’s a guide:
Daryl teased Joanna who waited for me to knock off and leave together.