Twitter wants YOU to "Join the Flock Today," the company says in a new—and intentionally awful—recruitment video. The video is a send-up of other, often cringe-inducing, help-wanted videos, and it features employees uttering awkward lines like, "Boy, I wish I didn't already work here so I could apply...
Last year was the worst for violence against Afghan civilians since the UN started keeping track five years ago, with 3,021 killed, according to the AP . The UN report attributed the 8% rise in civilian killings to a surge in roadside bombs and suicide attacks by insurgents, with Taliban-affiliated...
The computer keyboard may be an essential tool of daily life, but everybody is driven nuts by at least one aspect of it, writes Matthew J.X. Malady at Slate . He offers some suggested tweaks:
The Bedouin tribesmen who kidnapped two American tourists and their guide in Egypt yesterday were "very nice" and "treated us like family,” said one of the kidnapped women, reports MSNBC . "I was not at all afraid,” said the woman, who does not want to be identified. “They kept on reassuring...
Despite brutally cold temperatures, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Moscow today, calling on Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to step down from power, reports the AP . Protesters marched on the Kremlin, carrying signs that read "For Free Elections" and "Russia Without Putin." Authorities had given permission...
Israel is warning its facilities in the US and around the world, as well as Jewish targets in general such as synagogues and schools, that they could be in danger from Iran, reports ABC News . "We predict that the threat on our sites around the world will increase … on...
With anti-government forces stepping up, the Syrian military killed more than 200 people yesterday with artillery fire in the city of Homs, reports Reuters . It was the single-worst day of civilian casualties since the uprisings began early last year. Other reports put the death toll as high as 337 in...
Actor Ben Gazzara died of pancreatic cancer today, reports the New York Times . The obituary recounts a long and varied career on stage (a starring role in the original Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ), television ( Run for Your LIfe in the early '60s), and film (especially with...
New hope in the treatment of addiction? A study shows that people hooked on drugs or alcohol have abnormalities in the brain that make them more susceptible. Researchers were able to determine that the abnormalities existed before the addiction set in because they found the same abnormalities in the brains...
