Here’s an interesting concept: what if you didn’t have to add all those intriguing people you want to follow on Twitter by yourself? Now there are applications that can do it for you! Introducing Twitter-pack and Mr. Tweet. These programs analyze the people you follow (and the people they follow, and so on and so [...]

It is a well documented fact that the frigid weather outside effects workplace morale and decreases workplace productivity. Next time you find yourself stuck, try one of these tips before heading back to that brochure (or whatever suits your current profession) that you were creating:

Stretch. Not only does it increase your flexibility and feels excellent, [...]

Now that Thanksgiving is over and done with, decorations in the colors of fall come down, and adornments in the colors of the holidays go up. But how “green” is your evergreen? The cost of an organic Christmas tree is almost the same (around $5-10 more) as the one you’d find in your supermarket parking [...]

Google, we love you. You make research so easy, so slick—that is, until a more popular search result comes before the thing you were actually looking for. My predicament today was a funnier one that I felt worth sharing.
While searching for blog ideas this morning I typed the (mis-spelled) word “tryptophyan” into Google. What Google [...]

Facebook has officially another hit a milestone:
…the company grew its active membership total from 90 million in early July to 120 million now, said Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg
If this is true, 2% of the worlds 6 billion people are signed up. Sort of frightening, isn’t it?
Even though it has a massive [...]

I stumbled across a very interesting article not to long ago titled 10 Social Networks and What They Say About the People Who Use Them. While I don’t necessarily agree with all the author’s choices of what she describes as social networks (digg.com & wikipedia? really?), her other descriptions were dead-on. My favorite one [...]

Would you promise to smile more at strangers if you found a painting in the street? That is the goal of Boston-based artist Bren Bataclan’s smileproject. The project started in 2004 as an effort to get people to smile more on the street, and has turned into a global phenomenon. Mr. Bataclan has dropped paintings [...]

Ever wanted to grow a mustache but needed a valid reason to do it? Check out Movember.com. Instead of a Walk/Run like every other non-profit seems to be doing lately, the Prostate Cancer Foundation came up with a gimmick to pull young people in and raise money for a great (but mostly ignored) cause. Men [...]

This past weekend I stood up in a friend’s wedding. While the wedding and reception itself went swimmingly, getting to the reception was very difficult. The bride and groom had decided to rent a limobus so that the entire wedding party could get from one location to the next at the same time. This is [...]

Google announced the newest addition to its plethora of web-based software: Google Chrome. What makes this shiny new web browser so appealing? It’s open source and built from scratch (Google programmers were the first people to write the code, but from now on, other programmers can take it and modify it to make it better), [...]