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Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 Jess Zimmerman’s previous work for The Toast can be found here. Late last month, British actress Susan Sheridan died of cancer at the age of 68. Sheridan was an accomplished voice artist, but for me (and, it seems, for a lot of news writers), her defining work was in the original Hitchhiker’s…
Can you identify this suspect who police said used a card after a man was robbed? Can you identify this suspect who police said used a card after a man was robbed? RICHMOND, Va. – A male was robbed at gunpoint by two men in Shockoe Bottom Saturday night, at 18th and E. Cary Streets….
This story first appeared on The Fiscal Times. When it comes to company loyalty, money matters to millennials. Twenty-nine percent of millennials say that a higher salary is the biggest contributor to their loyalty, according to data released Tuesday by the Staples Advantage Workplace Index. That compares to 20 percent of the overall workforce who place…
Tuesday night was the debut of the new “David Letterman Show, Starring Stephen Colbert!” and for a night of such fanfare, you’ve got to call Jeb! Bush, because he’s the only candidate with an exclamation point after his name. There was much to laugh about, like when Colbert told Jeb, “You are, with one exception…
Kermit and Miss Piggy’s moment of conscious uncoupling represents the kind of cynicism that has been, until now, entirely absent from the Muppet project. Credit Photograph by Mary Altaffer / AP Barrier Status: ‘none’ At the beginning of August, the foam puppets Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy announced on Twitter that they had broken up….
This article contains spoilers for Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, specifically regarding the character Quiet. As anyone who’s watched my video output on the Eurogamer YouTube channel can attest, I love talking about sex in games. More often than not its execution is hilarious, sometimes it’s even erotic, and I believe that…
It’s been days since I wanted to talk about anything other than Metal Gear Solid [official site]. My sister is probably sick of this. We’re very close but live far apart so we tend to speak almost every day, not so much about our lives as about the things that distract us from our lives….
This post is part of a series of freelancer stories about waiting to get paid — or never getting paid at all. Presently 81% of freelancers have trouble getting paid by their clients and, on average, each unpaid freelancers is owed over $6,000 in salary. Read on for first-person accounts from Freelancer Union…
Since the dawn of time, man has pondered: Is my penis big enough? Now the world is finally getting some answers, with study after study attempting to calibrate exactly what size and shape heterosexual women find ideal. #science The latest penis comparison study, just published in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE, is hoping to solve…
Is streaming destroying the music industry? It’s hard to say, but Spotify certainly wants to destroy the enjoyment of music with its rampant enabling of music snobs. The company has unveiled a new tool called “Found them First” that lets users find which artists they were listening to before the rest of the world caught…