Word: cooler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mail and e-commerce, add e-office gossip. In industry after industry, the kind of chat that once occurred at the water cooler is moving online. Journalists are hooked on Jim Romenesko's MediaNews poynter.org/medianews) a site that in addition to aggregating news stories about the media posts e-mail from media professionals. (A recent topic: a schoolyard fight between journalists and p.r. agents in which the reporters accused the flacks of being overly aggressive and underinformed.) Investment bankers prefer vault.com where they can keep tabs on which of their colleagues is getting richest and who's sleeping with...
...there's one thing in the Googleplex that's cooler and more popular than free ice cream, it's the company's product (found, of course, at google.com) The brainchild of Stanford University pals Larry Page, 27, and Sergey Brin, 26, Google is the Web's largest and hippest search engine. In just two years it has gained a reputation for uncanny speed and accuracy, delivering exactly what you're looking for in a fraction of a second. The site now does this 40 million times a day--not quite a googol (10100, which is 1 followed by 100 zeroes...
...would ask you how you're doing, but any idiot who's glanced at a newspaper or overheard a snippet of water-cooler gossip knows you're doing just fine. Quite a feat you pulled off in Louisville this weekend, shuttling Bob May back into obscurity and cementing your reputation as a golfer for the ages. If I were wearing a hat, I would take...
...with the success of "Survivor" and the arrival Wednesday night of its claustrophobic real-time sibling, "Big Brother," the vicious side of voyeurism is starting to shine through. Exposing your life (and blurred private parts - thank you, Insensitive Naked Man Richard) to the glare of a million water-cooler pundits is one thing. Being publicly branded as unworthy is another...
...supply," he says, referring to the transgression that helped get Andersen the boot. (Note: Losers are not actually executed, but Fox hasn't worked up a knockoff series yet.) "Don't vote me off the island!" is rivaling "Is that your final answer?" as a red flag for water-cooler bores. And last week CBS announced a Survivor sequel, set in the Australian outback...