TheJobBored

A weekly wrap-up of the forwards, email, jokes, You Tube videos and water cooler chatter making its way around America’s offices this week.
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You’ve seen some of these clips here before. And I hate the song. Still, it’s a decent compilation.
In honor of Wednesday.

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This Sunday marks the final episode of HBO’s The Wire. I’m sure most of you have never seen it. I’m sure a lot of you have had friends rhapsodize about how wonderful it is.
Let me join the chorus. Not only do the 5 seasons of The Wire represent the greatest achievement in television history, The […]

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If you’ve been a longtime reader of this blog, then you know we love nothing more than to find new ways to watch tv at work in your web browser.
Today the news is that CBS has done a classic TV dump and you can now watch vintage episodes of Star Trek and The Twilight Zone […]

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No good reason for posting this.
It’s just cool.
Click through here to see a cool interactive flash-based description of the new five-dollar bill and it’s features.
Wish I could make neato flash graphics like that.

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I don’t know if you’ve seen AngryJournalist.com, but it’s been making the rounds on the interwebs this week, and I gotta say, I get a kick out of it. It’s like Post Secret in reverse: a place for journalists to vent their frustrations about their jobs and their industry.
You get pithy anonymous comments like this:
Angry […]

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I know this is mostly a time waster, but a bunch of interesting things happened today in the world of gadgetry that I think most people would be interested in. So, if you’re most people, and you care, here’s the scoop:

First, the format wars are over. Blue-Ray won. Now you can finally go out and […]

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Hey kids! Wanna see the latest example of mainstream media attempting to co-opt a cutting edge social phenomenon it doesn’t understand?
Well then, why not watch NBC’s totally tubular new show Quarterlife? It’s coming later this month. But that shouldn’t stop you from getting involved RIGHT NOW. You can join their bitchin social network site right […]

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Last year, the New York Times finally took down it’s pay firewall. It was a great day for those of us who get most of our news online, while wasting time at work.
One of the last paid firewall holdouts in major media is the Wall Street Journal. There was plenty of speculation that after Rupert […]

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Here’s a perfect post for a Friday afternoon.

Stack items in cabinets so that they fall out on people when opened.
Move specific items to specific places everyday. (I.e. move the boss’ favorite pen from his desk to the floor every day if asked about it blame it on ghosts.)
See how many bathrooms you can visit in […]

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Chalk this up as another inevitability of our age.
Ever since social networks have been around, they’ve sort of been like the music your parents wouldn’t like because the music was too loud. You could post pictures from your keg party because you knew no one of any authority or importance would know how to/be interested […]

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