The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you stay up to date with what your friends are doing,[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

neither of us was paying attention to any damn imaginary scoring judges -- we were both well content, if a little fatigued.

I mugged up on the meaning of road signs before taking my driving test.

Heat always upped the rate at which rigor gripped a corpse.