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He Gets Paid So You Can Slack

CollegeHumor.com editor dishes on the unlikely science of wasting your time

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 20, 2008 10:55 AM CDT

(Newser) – Wasting people’s time is an odd job—but it’s also a big business, writes CollegeHumor.com editor Streeter Seidell in the New York Times. Seidell spends his days wading through an “ocean” of submitted videos and other items, choosing which funny or...   Read full story »

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