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80Avoiding Work: Ten Ways to Look Busy in the Office
Since finishing your work is the best way to be given more to do, an essential skill in the modern workplace is that of avoiding being productive. However, the art lies in looking like you're busy when you're...
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80French Comedy: Ten Films to Watch
The French sense of humour takes a little getting used to. It's not very different from English humour in some ways, but enough so that a little self-education in the niceties of style can help a lot. For those who are interested, here are ten films...
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76What causes obsessions? Is there a cure for obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Ask a psychologist what causes obsessions and you're probably in for a very long discussion. The possible reasons for any kind of neurotic or obsessive behaviour are so numerous and so individual that it's impossible to generalise: each sufferer...
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76Creative Ways to Decorate Your Office Cubicle
The cube farm. Creation of the efficiency mentality, bane of corporate existence. How can you make your cube more personal, more distinctive, a real home-from-home? Here's a few suggestions! Corporate Memos "Did you get that memo?" becomes a...
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76Sights to See in Paris
There's so much to see in Paris that it's very difficult to come up with a short-list for tourists. Having lived there for a few years in the past, I thought I'd put together a dozen suggestions. Some are obvious, but others are less well-known. ...
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75History of Area 51.
Area 51 is the name most commonly used for the Groom Lake airbase in Nevada. The US air force gives it the same appellation in some ways, since the whole of the site is numbered for convenience. However, Groom Lake is not a normal base: it’s a...
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70Top Ten Bizarre and Unusual 2009 Calendars
What better way to start the New Year than with something a little different? Something unusual. Something downright freaky. Here's a little selection of 2009 calendars for the "individual". The Bubble-wrap...
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70What is the Oldest Known Board Game that we still Play?
There are many board games still in existence that were invented hundreds or even thousands of years ago. The important part of the question posed is "that we still play today". Senet is generally accepted...
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71Making Money Online: A Guide For The Absolute Beginner
Introduction Back in November 2008, I realized for the first time that a medical condition from which I suffer was not going to get better. I couldn’t do office work and still can’t. So, being a geek, I decided to look for opportunities to...
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71Video Game Music: Ten of the Best Soundtracks
Video game production is, in many ways, quite similar to film production. With computers gaining in speed, power and storage all the time, companies are producing games on a much larger scale and with huge teams of developers. Strangely, one of the...
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