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In case you were unaware, today is Cyber Monday! Cyber Monday is the first Monday after Black Friday and is supposed to be the busiest online shopping day of the year.
The idea is, you’re back in the office in front of your computer and now is your chance to shop online to snag those gift […]

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It seems you can’t keep funny people down. Even as they strike, the writers are hitting back on YouTube. This is like an actual Daily Show segment, with cameos by actual Daily Show correspondents! This is the closest we’ll come… sniff!… for a long, long while…
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzRHlpEmr0w]

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Last week we told you about Hulu, a great and future hope for wasting time and watching tv at work. Yes, NBC is involved… with Fox. And yes, Hulu is so far pretty cool, and filled with potential (still in beta, remember).
Last week, NBC ALSO launched NBC Direct. Since it clearly sucks, we’re not going […]

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According to the New York Times, 50.2 percent of employers block access to social networks MySpace and Facebook over their corporate systems. 43.9 percent block MySpace, and 25.6 percent block Facebook. This information comes from web security firm Barracuda Networks which polled 2,400 of its own customers.
What is your experience, readers? Do your employers block […]

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His cubicle clearly sucks, and yet, despite this dude’s admirable it’s-gonna-be-ok can-do spirit, it didn’t even suck bad enough to be named the ‘winner’ of the Wired News ‘Saddest Cubicle Contest.’ Can’t win for losing. See the saddest cubicles as chosen by Wired News here.

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I don’t know why I’m getting such a kick out of the WGA writer’s strike. Maybe it’s because it’s fun to see all these rich, famous people acting like regular working joes (click here to see Dimitri Martin on the picket line, protesting Gen Y-style). Maybe it’s because I’m always behind hard working, creative people […]

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Big fan of All Songs Considered? Big fan of good music in general, no matter what the genre? NPR has always done a great job with music, and they’re slowly but surely joining the Web 2.0 world (last year they finally switched over to free podcasts of This American Life, and you can get […]

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From the I-wouldn’t-recommend-trying-this-yourself department, it seems there’s a website, myexcusedabsence.com (warning, they have a loud, obnoxious voice-over when you load the page… turn your speakers down if at work) that will create fake excuses for any occasion. Doctor notes, jury duty notes, funeral programs… they seem to have a template for everything. For a price, […]

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If you’re like me, you wasted a good day of work when the new TheDailyShow.com website came out. I was looking up old Even Stephvans. You? Well, with the writer’s strike nigh, this might be the only way we’re going to see the Daily Show for a while. And I’ve got another tv-resource for you […]

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