Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of our vocabulary — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
Mark Zuckerberg
Lunch Links for September 23: The Times They Are a-Changin’
From astonishing scientific revelations to a social media site’s new look, today’s links help you deal with a world in turmoil.
Reading While Eating for September 6: Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
This Tuesday, live like the celebrities do. Or at least read links about them.
‘Mark By Mark Zuckerberg’ Fashion Line Parodies the Facebook Founder’s Wardrobe
He’s been confirmed by GQ as the worst dressed man in Silicon Valley. We should all avoid dressing like him, right? But one website makes it oh-so-tempting.
Fellowship Pays Students $100,000 To Not Attend College
In an apparent hunt for the next Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates (both famously college dropouts), Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, will pay 24 college-aged students $100,000 to not attend college for two years. Instead, the …
Mark Zuckerberg’s New Thing: Only Eating Meat He Kills Himself
Somehow we don’t think this will catch on quite like Facebook did.
Naming Nuisance: Mark (S.) Zuckerberg’s Facebook Account Deleted
That is, Mark S. Zuckerberg, not the more famous Mark E. Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook. Life on the Internet can be tough for a Googleganger. (via Techland)
Quotes: Barack Obama on Mark Zuckerberg’s Wardrobe
“My name is Barack Obama, and I’m the guy that got Mark [Zuckerberg] to wear a jacket and tie.”
— PRESIDENT OBAMA, during an interview with founder Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook’s headquarters on Wednesday (via Huffington Post. …
Cyber Commitment: Mark Zuckerberg Makes Long-Term Relationship Facebook Official
Talk about slow to commit: Although he’s been dating his girlfriend Priscilla Chan since college, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just got around to listing himself as “in a relationship” on his own site.
Facebook Kicks Off 20,000 Underage Users Every Day
Would it surprise you to learn that, according to a Pew study, nearly half of all 12-year-olds in the U.S. use social network sites, even though they don’t meet the minimum age requirements? For Facebook, it’s a headache they …
Facebook Blocks Mark Zuckerberg Action Figure
A Chinese company has been forced to stop making the Facebook founder action figure. Fair to say that the social network firm didn’t “like” what was happening.
Forbes‘s Youngest Billionaire: Facebook Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz Edges Out Mark Zuckerberg
Those eight days in the womb really made a difference.