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It's the Weekly What? for Friday, November 9th
Rejoice! No robocalls! Hurray!We don't know about you guys, but the one thing that we like the most about seeing the tail-end of an election is the end of "robocalls." You know what we're talking about, just as you sit down to dinner the phone rings and who is it? Yep. Blaring out of the earpiece comes "Danger Will Robinson, danger!" or "If you do not speak English, I am at your disposal with 187 other languages along with their various dialects and sub-tongues." Our favorite was the one that proclaimed, in a fancy butler accent "I suggest a new strategy: Let the wookiee win." What? Is that a new third-party candidate? Whatever, we're glad to put it all behind us for another couple of years, at least. After you've plowed through the newsletter, why don't you click over to our Facebook page and weigh in on this week's question? "What's the one sound that drives you crazy?" 
Buying individual pastries is such a drag...You know how it is when you've got a chocolate donut with confetti sprinkles jones and you hit the store and pick up one or two. When you check out there's all that business of remembering the item code and punching in the quantity. Never mind subjecting a poor human cashier to the drudgery of ringing up your lone pastry. ("Here I am, just out of grad school, and they want me to ring up a. Single. Donut. Life? Don't talk to me about life.") Well, no more drudgery! Here's a story about a scanner that can recognize that little fat-bomb you just brought up front. What's next? A scanner that can tell if you should really be eating that donut or maybe you'd be interested in a nice apple instead? HA HA HA PUNY HU-MAN. What's in your bag?There's nothing quite so fun as nosing around in other people's stuff, amirite? Photographer Jason Travis has done all the snooping for us in this fascinating gallery of people and the stuff they carry. We had no idea so many guys carry man-purses! (How else could they possibly carry all that stuff?) Make sure you don't miss Fig the cat's assortment of stuff. We'd really like to see Fig's bag, though! Get to nosing around! >> Powerpoint presentation got you down?Well kick out the jams with these spot-on tips for putting the "power" back into your Powerpoint presentation. (We can't claim that particular bit of witticism, it comes from the article itself. Hey, the Writing Room Monkeys are awesome, but they can't come up with all the cool things.) Bring the POW! >> How are we doing? Got a hot news tip? Something to share? Click here to drop us a line! Behold the lowly paragraph indentSo we're all familiar with the paragraph indent, right? If you took typing in school, the whole tappy-tappy-type-type...return-tab routine is second nature. So... just WHY do we use indents? How long have they been around? Have we always used indents? (SPOILER ALERT: No.) Read more >> Make your MS Word documents things of typographic beauty.Move your readers to tears...not with boring intra-office memos about the need for cover letters for TPS reports but with the sheer beauty of its typography. Yes, we just use the word "typography" in regards to a Microsoft Word document. No, it's not heretical to think that one can apply some basic typographic oo-la-la to a boring old memo or report or whatever. It's actually a huge kindness for your readers and super-easy to implement. Typo tips: learn 'em, live 'em, love 'em >> The weekend is coming! Learn how to make rainbow waffles!That's right! RAINBOW waffles. And don't worry: they're flame retardant and non-carcinogenic. Seriously, who wouldn't love to see some of these Saturday morning? Whipped cream "clouds" make these super-awesome! Go stock up on some food-coloring (remember to check the label to make sure you're getting genuine flame-retardant food colorings!) Hit the kitchen! >> Speaking of which...We've been wondering, do cats like waffles? Find out now!! >> The Weekly What? is more fun when you share! It's easy, just click the "Forward email" link below... keep going... a little farther down... there it is! Send this newsletter to a friend! Don't worry, we won't hit them up for money. |
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