Get fake ATM receipts — either for a month (four) or for a year (52). The site promises this will make you feel rich and is great for handing out your phone number in a bar. Proof you should not believe everything you read. Also: Embarrassing fake receipts
- Posted by Erica Smith at 08:14 pm
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Journalists are an odd sort. They — we — witness and hear first-hand accounts of horrible things. Then we tell others those stories, omitting our bias and personal experience. Usually only in the company of other journalists do we share our “war” stories — how we got the story, how we found out about the [...]
- Posted by Erica Smith at 09:34 pm
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Facebook will now help you get a job. Well, a Facebook/CareerBuilder widget will help you find a job at any rate. Which is a little ironic after all of the stories about Facebook (and MySpace) users who weren’t hired because of photos or messages they (or their friends) had posted.
- Posted by Erica Smith at 08:11 pm
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USA Today is adding widgets! Readers can install the widgets on their blog, social network pages or site; three travel-related widgets are available so far, and others have been announced. The Washington Post was first with its Facebook widget back in May. The New York Times added a Google widget (Google likes to call them [...]
- Posted by Erica Smith at 12:28 am
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It’s finally true: I’m moving to online projects at work, for at least half of the week. This is something I’ve been wanting to do for awhile (and just seems darn smart given the state of newspapers) and the timing is finally working out right. So I’ll be splitting my week (which becomes a five-day [...]
- Posted by Erica Smith at 11:46 pm
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