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Non-profit organization, Colalife, had a great idea to use the distribution network of CocaCola to get much-needed medicines to the people who need them. “You can buy a Coca-Cola virtually anywhere in developing countries,” says the Colalife webite, but in these same places, 1 in 9 children die before their 5th birthday from simple preventable […]
Commander Chris Hadfield wasn’t the only one tearing up the Internet this past week. American author, David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement address to Kenyon College, a private liberal arts college in Ohio has received 4.5 million views since an abridged version was posted on May 6, 2013, five years after Foster Wallace’s death from suicide […]
Follow Ernestine’s Women’s Shelter on Twitter at @ErnestinesWS and find out about cool things like this — the first ever campaign on violence against women in Saudi Arabia The “No More Abuse” campaign is sponsored by the nonprofit King Khalid Foundation. Memac Ogilvy, Riyadh created the campaign.
Your Working Girl noticed the re-tweet from Evan Hadfield early in the morning of May 13th. As she’s mentioned on previous occasions in this space, the work of Commander Hadfield has held her in thrall since he’s been sending his brilliant tweets from the ISS. He looked like he was having such a good time […]
Last week, a letter to Dan Savage in NOW magazine caught Your Working Girl’s eye. (Believe her when she tells you her eye catches a great many sorts of things.) The letter to Mr. Savage, an internationally syndicated sex columnist and gay rights activist, was from a ‘monagamish’ bi-sexual couple who ‘fool around’ with similarly […]
From Your Working Girl’s Let’s Keep This All Social Media Buzz In Perspective Department, UNICEF Sweden released a compelling ad in April to bring the Facebook universe back to reality. It turns out that ‘liking’ something on Facebook doesn’t, in and of itself, do much at all. Brandchannel makes the point the that “while brands […]
Happy International Workers’ Day! Happy May Day! Today is the day when much of the world celebrates their workers. Today Your Working Girl would like to take the opportunity to honour a particularly hard worker of her acquaintance — her own dear father. Parents these days are judged on a range of criteria and some […]
To kick of the soundtrack of Your Working Girl’s Money Edition, here’s Liza and Joel to set the tone. Sing in the shower if you like it. Money Liza Minelli and Joel Grey
The Flying Circus sets the right note. Your Working Girl can’t remember a time when she didn’t know this song. The Money Song by Monty Python
…. to pay the bills I have to pay / Ain’t it sad. ABBA sings it like no one else. Money, Money, Money by Abba
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