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The festive season is the perfect time to learn about wine with so many cork popping celebratory moments. The purchasing and tasting opportunities are plentiful and a little knowledge will go a long way. Shared via Pocket. Read full article here, at the publisher's site.» http://bit.ly/1O8otiC

Utforsk årets største øyeblikk og spørsmålene de åpnet for. Googles år i søk er tilbake og er bedre enn noen gang. Shared via Pocket. Read full article here, at the publisher's site.» http://bit.ly/1OvXx6s

Last weekend, following attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, that left many dead, President Obama addressed the nation to condemn those terrible acts and reassure Americans that the government has a plan to fight terror. Shared via Pocket. Read full article here, at the publisher's site.»

Whether you’re just starting to do a little work on the side or you’re leaving your day job altogether, it’s important to know your worth as a freelancer. And contrary to what your “get a real job” parents may assume, you’re worth more than you think! Shared via Pocket Read full article here, at the

One November night in the 1870s, legendary Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821–February 9, 1881) discovered the meaning of life in a dream — or, at least, the protagonist in his final short story did. Shared via Pocket Read full article here, at the publisher's site.»

The bad thing came from nowhere. The city I lived in — Manchester, England — was known as “Gunchester” then: Kids shot in pie shops, stabbings in the clubs. I knew people who dealt in quantities of drugs that you had to lift at the knees. Shared via Pocket Read full article here, at the publisher's site.»

Pocket is a handy service for saving articles to read later. It has mobile apps for every platform and its own reader that makes any content easy to read on the go. Once in awhile you read an article that really inspires you. Pocket’s tagging feature makes it possible to share those articles on your own

Over the last 10 years, businesses, scientists and hobbyists from all over the world have been using Google Earth Pro for everything from planning hikes to placing solar panels on rooftops. Google Earth Pro has all the easy-to-use features and detailed imagery of Google Earth, along with advanced tools that help you measure 3D buildings,

Ron Carlson’s short story “What We Wanted To Do” takes the form of an apology from a villager who failed to protect his comrades from marauding Visigoths. It begins: What we wanted to do was spill boiling oil onto the heads of our enemies as they attempted to bang down the gates of our village. But as everyone

All the new products and features from Google I/O This year’s Google I/O wasn’t as dramatic as the I/Os of yesteryear. Nobody jumped from a blimp with a radical new face computer strapped to his face, and Larry Page neglected to step foot on stage, much less wax poetic about the infinite sadness in the

When 25-year-old Greg Caplan left his job at Groupon recently, he really wanted to spend some time traveling and working remotely, but ran into a few problems. “I was able to find remote work, but it’s difficult to find friends to travel with,” he says. “The biggest issue is traveling alone. I thought it’d be

If web design is art, we may be entering its minimalist phase. Website redesigns from some of the most-visited media destinations on the Internet may be leaving users with a bit of déjà vu since many are sporting the same visual elements. "It's sort of the same way that all cars look more or less