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November 24, 2014
• Find your Silicon Valley job title with this handy generator. Ours is “collaboration sherpa.” • Um, why is everyone making fun of our folded-cardboard virtual reality masks? • Quote of the Day, from the Business section of the Portland Press Herald: ...

Daily Bafflements
November 21, 2014
• Today in Millionaires: Japanese millionaire Chisako Kakehi has been the beneficiary of almost $7 million in insurance money after the death of seven husbands and boyfriends over twenty years, reports the Guardian. Her latest husband died of cyanide poisoning; she was ...

Daily Bafflements
November 20, 2014
• We’ve really got to stop giving the New York Times such a hard time for being out of touch with the financial realities of most of its readers’ lives. In a section of the paper on Wednesday that was literally entitled “Your Money,” an article ...

Daily Bafflements
November 19, 2014
• Here is a blog post about a custom T-shirt startup company, presented without comment or context: “Karl Marx Would Have Liked Teespring.” (Via Zachary Davis.) • Read Baffler blog contributor Alana Massey’s excellent salvo about the hours and hours of ...

Daily Bafflements
November 18, 2014
• So much for “upward mobility”: a new study for the journal Human Nature tracked British surnames from 1170 and 2012 to compare the families’ social status over time, by looking at elite school attendance and property ownership. The researchers found that ...

Daily Bafflements
November 17, 2014
• A group of dancers sued their employer, a Manhattan strip club, for minimum wage violations, and won $10 million. • Just as corporate cash has infiltrated politics, the trappings of political races have infiltrated big business: check out this hedge fund’s attack ...

Daily Bafflements
November 14, 2014
• Thanks to Jacqui Shine for the walk down memory lane yesterday, when she included The Great Grunge Hoax of 1992 in her comprehensive history and analysis of the New York Times Styles section for The Awl. Shine says she’s been working on this piece and studying this ...

Daily Bafflements
November 13, 2014
• “Only the Birds Will Be Shocked” is the title of a photo slideshow accompanying a New York Times feature on the “master (or mistress) of the universe bathrooms” in New York penthouses, with floor-to-ceiling glass sides. “It was like you were peeing ...

Daily Bafflements
November 12, 2014
• Pizza Hut seeks to appeal to the Next Generation with its “Flavor of Now” ad campaign, a new logo and staff uniforms, and the addition of new toppings like Sriracha and banana peppers to its menu. The Guardian reports: “On a call with investors on Monday, ...

Daily Bafflements
November 11, 2014
• The luxurious Survival Condo, built in a former missile silo, is selling units for $3 million each, reports the Wall Street Journal. Amenities include round-the-clock armed guards, a movie theater and indoor swimming pool, and the feeling of security you get when you know ...

Daily Bafflements
November 10, 2014
• Elmo Keep writes for Matter about how 200,000 people have applied to join a much-hyped, one-way mission to Mars in 2025…which may or may not turn out to be one big scam. (Via Longform.) • Today in Billionaires, and Billions: Oxfam, the organization that recently ...

Daily Bafflements
November 07, 2014
• Today’s Headline Without Context, from Engadget: “Tiny robotic scallops can swim through blood and eyeball fluid to fix you up.” • Today’s Quote Without Context, from the Spectator: “And for those who can’t manage the group sessions, ...