• This may or may not prove a useful thing to know on certain Saturday nights.

    NEWYORKER: The Disconnect

  • Sort of a lazy man's social phone, but we reckon that can be quite a useful thing for the targeted demographic of college students.

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  • It would be ironic if it took a stockmarket crash to convince New York's politicians that the private sector might just be a useful thing.

    ECONOMIST: New York��s infrastructure

  • It's symmetry that the banks should therefore not only make good the damage caused by the economic crisis but should also perpetually become a useful thing in society.

    BBC: Robin Hood banking tax 'would raise billions'

  • United, while not exactly contrite, can nevertheless sense which way the wind is blowing, which is a useful thing for an airline, and has reinitiated contact with the aggrieved musician.

    FORBES: United breaks guitars

  • "We live in an ever smaller global community and we probably are at a point where we believe having some language skills is a useful thing - it's what I would call a vocational skill really, " he says.

    BBC: 'Gaming' the school league tables?

  • As a liberal, I cannot walk the same distances as my anarchist friends, but I do appreciate and enjoy their critique, and I think that regardless of whether you are a liberal, a libertarian, or an anarchist (of whichever stripe) understanding that critique and internalizing it as much as possible is a useful thing.

    FORBES: Blogging 'The Conscience of an Anarchist' by Gary Chartier

  • And there is no agenda, there's no goal in terms of budget or any other issue, except to have that kind of conversation, which I think he finds to be a useful thing to do in terms of, in some ways, creating a better environment for the kind of work that the White House and the Congress need to do together.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • For curbing bad guys, the speed and visibility of the Internet can be a very useful thing.

    FORBES: Six Keys to Managing Your Reputation on the Web

  • There is always a tension between having a common means of exchange, a useful and good thing, and having to have the same interest rate, the same external currency conversion rate, not necessarily a good thing.

    FORBES: Yes, We Did Know the Euro Was Going To Fail

  • This will be something for government as a whole to consider and it may well be that a campaign is the sort of useful thing that could occur.

    BBC: Minister: 'Lighter later' campaign may find favour

  • If you prefer the second theory, then you might consider grades a useful instrument of positive or negative reinforcement, but the only thing that matters is what students actually learn.

    NEWYORKER: Live and Learn

  • But mobile money and other new ideas that could help the poor (see article) provide a useful reminder that financial innovation in itself is not always a bad thing.

    ECONOMIST: Telecoms

  • For those fairly confident that you won't be taking Divineo up on this questionably useful mod, you should still click on through for a live action video of this thing rocking out, but be very sure that you adore Metallica first, and don't say we didn't warn you.

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  • For one thing, a lot of what makes it into these not-quite-fact-checks is useful information that provides important context about what politicians are saying.

    FORBES: Fact-Checkers as Civility Police

  • They all thought computing was just a thing for nerds, and it was a list of functions that could be performed that would be useful.

    BBC: The year in business: 2011

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