Hotel theft is rampant. In a survey of members of TripAdvisor.com, 22% of respondents admitted to stealing stuff like bath robes and glassware. The hotel industry says theft by guests and employees costs them an etimated $100 million a year.
Ever steal anything from a hotel or motel?
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Monday, January 21, you may want to take off from work. After all, it will be the Unhappiest Day of the Year. An expert in seasonal disorders first identified January as the most stressful month. And now there’s a formula that works out the worst day of the year — and this year it’s Monday, [...]
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Kate is a young woman spending a year in Russia. The daughter of friends, she’s done a wonderful job of keeping everyone back in the U.S. up-to-date on her life over there. Now back home for a few weeks, she’s taken a moment to talk about some of the things she’s gotten used to in [...]
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Back a few years ago, Google had something called the Deskbar. I loved it. Say you were hammering away on an important project in your word processor and needed to search the web for something. With a browser-based toolbar you have to bring your browser to the front before clicking in the search box. But [...]
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I was going through my ‘temporary’ Firefox bookmarks (the sites I bookmark that I’ll check “later” 
and found TaDaList.com, a web-based to-do list on steroids. (Oops, sorry. Didn’t mean to accuse them of using steroids. It’s a web-based to-do list on lots of vitamins. Probably a whole fistful of Flintstones Chewables.)
I did a little research [...]
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It’s been awhile since a blog post made me laugh out loud, like this one. Yes, it really did, jack.
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Years ago, while working for a small radio station in Southern Illinois, I was asked to be a part of one of those “bid for a bachelor” charity events — women bidding at a live auction on a “celebrity” bachelor and his date package. My date package was a trip to Six Flags in St. Louis, and the woman who “won” [...]
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CNN and CareerBuilder are out with a list of some of the best job perks offered by American companies:
Barkley; Kansas City, Missouri — This advertising agency has an annual “Kidnap Day,” when the company shuts down for the day and workers are taken to an undisclosed location, like an arcade. Additionally, there are break-time activities, [...]
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Trailers for what Yahoo says are the 10 most anticipated movies of 2008…
Cloverfield
Rambo
Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who
Iron Man
Speed Racer
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Sex and the City
WALL-E (Pixar’s next big flick)
Wanted (Angelina Jolie is part of a secret fellowship of assassins)
The Dark Knight
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I’m not sure why, but as a kid I was fascinated by the story of D.B. Cooper. Probably because only a Hollywood screenwriter could come up with this plot: Dan “D.B.” Cooper (a pseudonym) hijacked a Boeing 727 in 1971, obtained a $200,000 ransom, then jumped out of the back of the jet as it [...]
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