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Google is known for asking incredibly difficult questions of its job seekers. This is one of them.
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A project called How Many Billboards? Art in Stead is replacing billboard ads around Los Angeles with wonderful works of art. It's making the...
It's never been untrue, exactly, to say that Los Angeles-a driving city with plenty to sell-raises the billboard to the level of art form. Now...
Each quarter, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation releases the number of banks it feels might need to be bailed out by the government. And...
There's a post on Kottke today with the headline "I don't read books anymore" that has me thinking. As recently as two years ago, I was reading...
Pictory founder Laura Brunow Miner faces her fears by luring 30 foodies out to a ranch in the middle of nowhere.
Is flaunting your great taste in books and music really harder in the digital age?
In the latest Vanity Fair, James Wolcott worries about the...
Living in the city might be nice, but you're missing a whole lot of scenery up there.
Apple hopes counting employees will help solve its public relations problems.
This infographic makes clear why there isn't a mass movement to raise the minimum wage—people are too busy working their asses off.
How and to what extent the use of Twitter has helped foment the latest protests in Iran is a question of much debate. Luckily, Iran has had...
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