So, Should I Fire Back? (text)
What a terrible day. My boss called me to her office and said I was doing a lousy job, today is my last day. I can't believe I got fired!
Sounds of the City
How can you put up with your neighborhood? Do you really like living in the city? There's so much noise!
Social Media
Clashes seem inevitable as police are forced to acclimate to the growing number of people carrying cell phones with video cameras.
Sound
The Wave Organ is an acoustic sculpture that amplifies the sounds of the waves from the bay, creating low, gurgling notes that ebb and flow with the ocean.
Same Sound Same Spelling 1
It may be going gangbusters on YouTube, but one of South Korea’s national TV networks won’t air the latest music video from Psy due to a scene that involves vandalism.
Use and Sound Great
Many chess players are lifers. They know nothing else and carry on playing forever. But Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1 player, is adamant he will not accept gentle decline or the indignity of a plummeting rating.
Same Sound Different Spelling2
Do you think these turquoise sun glasses are a good complement for my blue hair? I think they go pretty well together!
Same Sound Different Spelling1
Bob Dylan has gotten flak for a recent performance in China, which many thought was censored. Songs that might have overtly offended China's Communist rulers were avoided.
Same Sound Different Spelling3
All night, Jay-Z played to his Brooklyn roots and to the borough’s pride. The concert to open the new Barclays Center, home court of the Nets, was a tribute to Brooklyn, the team, and the rapper.
Vocablets with "SOME"
That looks like a good spot for the sea lion to catch some rays!
Snippets with "SOME"
Officials from New Mexico bought some 200 guns which they allegedly planned to sell to drug cartels in Mexico.
Look, Seem, Sound and Feel
Yum! These pancakes make me feel like I'm back home in my mom's kitchen!
R: acid, acri [bitter, sour]
A gang of young men harassed Mukherjee — following her, hissing lewd comments. After she threatened to go to the police, they sneaked into her house and poured acid on her while she slept, melting away much of her face.
Don't Be So Shallow
The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.
I'm So Bored!
When Judy and Peter find a board game in the park, they take it home, hoping to alleviate their boredom.
Is that so?
Changing Attitude Ireland is "a network of people, gay and heterosexual, lay and ordained, working for the full affirmation of lesbian and gay persons within the Churches in Ireland."
That's So Tempting....
Flashlight fishes are named for their large bioluminescent organs that are located beneath the eyes. The light they produce is used to attract prey, escape from predators, and to communicate!
35 to Sound Great
Many chess players are lifers. They know nothing else and carry on playing forever. But Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1 player, is adamant he will not accept gentle decline or the indignity of a plummeting rating.
Society 2012
You try mapping the world. That's the gist of Apple's response to frustrated users befuddled by the error-prone new Apple Maps app that has replaced Google Maps on the iPhone.
Reading Social Signals
Some criminals are bragging about their murders, rapes and robberies on social sites, often with telltale photos or clips that can put them away.
You're So Vain
There may be some evolutionary logic to overconfidence, at least when the prize outweighs the cost, as false bravado can often make an opponent back down.
Society: level 8
In the US, corporate executives earn about 400 times as much as the average employee, with the discrepancy in other countries only slightly less obscene.
I could eat a horse
so hungry I could eat a horse
Sure, sure... but don't be too long, Lindsey. I haven't had anything since breakfast. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!
stress out
stressed out
How am I? I don't even know. Everything is so crazy right now and I'm just so stressed out.