Sarah Park
Posts by: Sarah Park
I thought I was just unpopular. Turns out, I’m normal.
According to this NYTimes.com article, most people have forsaken the use of their phones for voice calls:
In the last five years, full-fledged adults have seemingly given up the telephone — land line, mobile, voice mail and all. According to Nielsen Media, even on [...]
Continue Reading →Now that I live in an area where the tap water doesn’t taste like it was poured straight from the drain of a swimming pool, I’ve been trying to break myself of the dirty, city-dwelling habit of buying bottled water. It’s expensive, it sucks for the environment, and it isn’t any better for [...]
Continue Reading →…Or if you weren’t.
James Altucher’s Lifehacker post on 10 Things You Need To Do if You Were Just Fired celebrates that brief, terrifying moment of freedom that comes only after being forced out of the job you hated anyway. Newly liberated from your veal-fattening pen and reluctant to rejoin the real world? [...]
Continue Reading →In response to being asked numerous times by EU citizens whether or not it’s true that only 10% of Americans own a passport, C. G. P. Grey put together this map illustrating passport ownership per capita, organized by state:
I’ve never been a very strong believer in that whole “Americans don’t travel [...]
Continue Reading →Contributor “Dolores P.” posted this tremendously thoughtful essay about her present occupation yesterday: Ask an Abortion Provider
I have the privilege to be reminded that this is someone’s life, not the New York Times Most Emailed Article. And it is an honor to be reminded.
Though I definitely admire Dolores P. for presenting [...]
Continue Reading →I have a serious addiction to time-lapse photography. Philip Bloom’s footage of time-lapse photos from hotel room windows over the course of one year of travels definitely has me drooling. And also wondering how the hell this guy manages to always get the best hotel views ever.
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Continue Reading →According to a TSA source, an undercover agent was repeatedly able to get through airport security with a gun at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. The agent concealed a handgun under her clothes as she set out to test several of the airport’s body scanning machines. At every location she tried, she was allowed to [...]
Continue Reading →Corkboard.me has created one of the simplest and most useful sites I’ve seen in a while. Their free service allows you to create a corkboard with its own unique web address, where you can post unlimited amounts of sticky note reminders and photos to access from anywhere. Since there’s no sign-up required, you [...]
Continue Reading →Eating in front of a computer generally means that I’ll be eating half my meal, and the other half will get inexplicably jammed between the H & J keys on my keyboard. Lifehacker readers combined forces to create this killer guide to The Best Foods (and Strategies) for Eating at Your Computer. [...]
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