TheJobBored

ShareSo after all the hemming (himming?) and hawing, I guess we’re getting a stimulus package. The whole idea behind this thing is to create jobs… stem the flow of job losses… prevent a new great depression… give everyone a pony… take your pick.
Is there useful news here for job seekers? Are there specific jobs/industries that [...]

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ShareLast year, we had a post about surviving the year-end holiday office party without embarrassing yourself too much or putting your career in jeopardy.
Ah… the good old days!
Now I guess you’re just lucky if you’ve survived to witness the year end party with your job intact!
And that leaves aside the fact that a lot of [...]

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ShareIn the pantheon of at-work-timewasters, computer solitaire has to stand alone in the first rank.
Sure, there’s also Minesweep and now online soduku and Facebook Scrabble, but surely more work hours have been wasted playing that stupid included solitaire program on your Windows PC than anything else.
Except maybe online porn. But you have to really be [...]

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ShareI’m more of an Onion man myself, but if you get your at-work laughs from Dilbert, you might like to hear that the Dilbert.com website has gotten a bit of an upgrade.
h/t WebWare.
There are animated versions of Dilbert strips available, as well as an extensive expansion of the Dilbert archives that will eventually include every [...]

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ShareThere’s no doubt that the 1980s was the golden age of cable access shows. In this age of video cameras that fit in your pocket and You Tube stardom, it’s hard to imagine now the sheer innocence and experimentation that people felt when suddenly they could be on the TV too!
Best Week Ever has a [...]

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ShareJust cause I still stand behind the notion that most of the jokes suck (did you see what Google did to Gmail today? ANNOYING!) I will give one good one.
Good joke.

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ShareMarch Madness starts next week, and the days of cursing your job silently all day because you’re missing all the action… they’re over.
You can watch every single game, online… for free… over at CBS Sports. You do have to register, but still. Free, people!
It seems like just yesterday that they were beginning to experiment with [...]

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ShareIf 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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ShareNo 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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ShareI 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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