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...life hacking, and it's all about sweating out the best ways to crank through e-mail, sabotage spam, boost productivity and in general be happier. British tech guru Danny O'Brien coined the term at a 2004 technology conference after studying how programmers come up with "hacks," or shortcut solutions for routine but time-consuming problems. The trick, he says, is not to worry about the entire problem but to find a small fix to get through the task at hand. He describes his approach as a sort of "Seven Habits of Super Effective Geeks." The movement has since...
...parents are turning to the government - there were 30,000 consultations with child welfare offices during fiscal 2005, more than 30 times the total in 1990. Critics say that Japan's social welfare services are too passive, doing too little to head off crises until it's too late. Shortcut solutions like Jikei Hospital's stork cradle are more common, giving anxious parents an anonymous out rather than providing them with meaningful support. But an increasingly budget-conscious government doesn't appear eager to allocate the necessary funding. "The child consultation services are very understaffed and suffering hard," says Saimura...
...applicant's soul. So they use test scores. Employers looking to hire young people for their first full-time job can't stop to gather and judge all the information they might want in deciding who is likely to be a disciplined and skillful employee. So they take a shortcut and go for college graduates. Buffett doesn't need to require a college degree because what he is looking for can be measured in ways that are even more concrete and downright mathematical: an ability to generate large returns on investments. Why would any potential employer care if a gifted...
...Jamestown and were impertinent enough to expect a return. Forget it, Smith wrote his London underwriters. There was no sense digging for gold where nature had left none, he scoffed, nor would the rock-strewn James River ever guide their wind-driven square-riggers on some long-dreamed-of shortcut to China. Disenchanted investors, he concluded, were free to join him in Jamestown, where their odds of surviving were about...
...exegetes of Internet Movie Database have already done that. I'll just say that, to judge from the citations here, Wright and Pegg's favorite movie auteurs are ... themselves. The film teems with lines and situations from Shaun of the Dead. "What's the matter, Dann - never taken a shortcut before?" says Pegg to Frost before vaulting over some backyard fences; same as in the earlier film. Or, one guy: "You want anything at the shop?" Other guy: "Cornetto." Or, Frost (with inane bravado): "I'll drive." Also, on a quick trip back to London, Nick enters a store where...