December 2011
Soup: Nurse Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying →
kellyoxford:
From Arise India Forum:
“For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives People grow a lot when they are faced with…
“If I try my best and fail, well, I tried my best.”
– Steve Jobs, 1998 (via david)
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Spending the Holidays Three Houses Down from... →
I’m spending the holidays in Tallahassee, Florida, which happens to be the town from which the Whitis family, the winners of Good Morning America’s “Our Lights Are Better Than Your Lights”,…
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Me: "Hey, there's the Neuse River. I think I jumped off a cliff into that river when I was younger."
He: "You don't remember if you jumped off a cliff?"
Me: "I grew up jumping off of cliffs. It was the South. That's what you did for fun."
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Rules for your bar tab in ancient Mesopotamia
One law code, which predates the more famous Hammurabi code, even offers rules for your bar tab:
… the copy sheds light on one of the oddest rules governing what you should pay a “female tavern-keeper” who gives you a jar of beer.
Apparently, if you have the female keeper put the beer on your tab during the summer, she will have the right to extract a tax from you, of unknown amount, in...
“Don’t you know living is a lot like flying, you either do it or die trying.”
– Darrell Scott (via lifeaftermonday)
Old and Busted vs. New Hotness and the Elephant in... →
When a PR representative recently offered me the opportunity to review the new strongSony VAIO S Series laptop/strong, I was hesitant. But I realized that it would be a great opportunity to…
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What I Learned About the Wired World on Jury Duty →
I learned so many lessons about the Web on jury duty last week. Here are just a few.
Write Like What You Say Will Be Read To A Jury
I’m not speaking abstractly here. If you document your life dramas online, and if those dramas end up in court, the lawyers will dig it all up. Work emails are one thing, but people in this case admitted private Facebook messages as character evidence.
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My love for Ryan Gosling has been completely manufactured by Tumblr.
“And more overwhelming still was the unmistakeable drive towards writing. It...”
– Insomnia | Granta Magazine
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Smithsonian Mag has a Tumblr! →
The Awl: My Three-Month Facebook Dialogue With A... →
Go ice skating at your hotel in Miami →
Filed under: North America, United States, Hotels and Accommodations
What’s better than ice skating during the holidays? How about ice skating with the knowledge that the sunny beaches…
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