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#FF Summaries from Our Retweeters and Followers National Chewing Gum Day on #FF (photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) Today is National Chewing Gum Day! According to Wikipedia,  Chewing gum in many forms has existed since the  Neolithic period . 6,000-year-old chewing gum made from  birch bark tar , with tooth imprints, has been found in  Kierikki  in  Finland . How would you like to chew that? We celebrate the best social chewers on the planet - Our retweeters and followers. Have a great weekend! - The Nerd Stalker Team

Our IQs have never been higher - but it hasn't made us smart James Flynn is worried about leaving the world to millennials. As a professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand, he regularly meets bright students with enormous potential, only to find that many of them aren't engaging with the complex past of the world around them.

UX Leadership Roles: Multiple Paths The UX Principal loves doing the detailed work and coming up with new UX design ideas. UX Principal is a role that very rarely exists within organizations, but when it is does, it is very valuable in keeping senior UX professionals doing what they enjoy and in creating great work.

This Old Ass Commodore 64 Is Still Being Used to Run an Auto Shop in Poland Hell yeah. We need to learn a lesson about needless consumerism from this auto repair shop in Gdansk, Poland. Because it still uses a Commodore 64 to run its operations. Yes, the same Commodore 64 released 34 years ago that clocked in at 1 MHz and had 64 kilobytes of RAM.

Amazon's Newest Ambition: Competing Directly With UPS and FedEx Just before the morning rush hour on a recent Thursday, a brigade of vans rolled up to a low-slung warehouse near Los Angeles International Airport. Workers in bright green vests crammed some 150 Amazon.com packages into each truck before the fleet headed through the urban sprawl to customers' doorsteps.

OMMA gives your Social Panels for Marketers Live Photo Courtesy of OMMA - Media Post At the Online Marketing Media Awards (OMMA) Social, they explore how marketers are leveraging and managing this explosion of innovation. Facebook and Twitter are rolling out new user features and ad opportunities, from video to new ad units. Answer questions like Which are worth trying?  Instagram quickly has become the mobile social juggernaut, but how can marketers harness image and video feed to best effect? And all social channels, from Snapchat to Facebook Messenger , are flexing their muscles as polished media redistribution platforms. How do sponsorships and brand messages fit into this new age newsstand?  Watch it live now!