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Next Tuesday, Sept. 8, speaking at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va. President Obama will address the youth of America during a live television broadcast urging them to stay in school.
Some school districts,
bowing to parent pressure, have decided not to show the speech during school.
comment posted at 8:01 PM on Sep-4-09
Alternative wine closures
are being resisted. Alcoa's new glass stopper with
Dupont's vinyl ring costs nearly the same as a cork (50¢ to 70¢ each), but requires new bottling machines. Although cheaper screw caps also prevent
undesirable compounds from tainting wine, and eliminates the need for horizontal storage, they change the purist aspect of the bottle and are not biodegradable. Naturalists point out the problem of having
cork forests disappear in the Mediterranean region from low demand.
comment posted at 10:44 AM on Sep-1-09
One in 8 Million
"New York is a city of characters. On the subway and in its streets, from the intensity of Midtown to the intimacy of neighborhood blocks, is a 305-square-mile parade of people with something to say. This is a collection of a few of their passions and problems, relationships and routines, vocations and obsessions. A new story will be added weekly."
A photo and audio series from the
New York Times.
comment posted at 12:02 PM on Aug-23-09
Pitcher Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox
has thrown a
perfect game. A tremendous sporting achievement; this has happened only 19 times in the history of major league baseball. Buehrle is the 17th pitcher in the modern era (since 1900) and the first since Randy Johnson in 2004.
comment posted at 7:50 PM on Jul-23-09
The 10 smartest and stupidest iPhone apps
, according to British technology website The Register. The smartest apps include things like personal databases, information tools and music streaming and identification apps. The stupid section is a morass of farts, poop, pickup lines and badly rendered, vaguely creepy pictures of girls.
Idiocracy, it seems, has come early to the App Store.
comment posted at 5:58 PM on Jul-9-09
Google Chrome OS:
Google says it will release a new operating system, built around its Chrome browser, which will be open source and will initially be targeted at netbooks. Shipment is expected second half of 2010. No response yet from Microsoft.
comment posted at 4:19 PM on Jul-8-09
Maybe Apple had never actually listened to the song
Closer before approving the Nine Inch Nails iphone app, but Trent Reznor
Twitted today that Apple pulled the NIN application from the store due to objectionable content. The objectionable content referenced is "The Downward Spiral."
comment posted at 11:42 AM on May-3-09
US Pole Dance Championships 2009
(no nudity, but possibly NSFW)
It’s significant to understand that pole dancing is not stripping. This misconception prevents pole dancing from becoming something every woman should be able to enjoy. Pole dancing is a sensual athletic dance form that demands coordination, flexibility and physical strength. Like the Jane Fonda workout combined with Cirque du Soleil.
comment posted at 3:32 PM on Apr-20-09
Apparently there's at least a 51% chance of God's existence. It starts out 50/50, like with pets. You have, say, either a dog or a cat. It's a 50/50 chance that it's one or the other, just like it's 50/50 that there's a God or not. Well, we exist. You exist. The earth exists. That nudges it up to 51%. If I understand this
youtube gentleman. Hilarious exercise in smug delivery of ironclad logic.
comment posted at 9:56 AM on Apr-2-09
Why I'm Alone: "People ask me why I'm still alone, and why I don't seek to date much, eight years after my husband died. I thought about it the other day, and came up with a few of the reasons."
comment posted at 11:12 PM on Apr-1-09
Google introduces phone service.
At the moment, the service is restricted but it should be publicly available within
weeks.
List of features and how they work
here. Click on "Place calls" to see how basic calls would work. Highlights include free phone calls within the U.S. and reportedly lower-than-Skype rates for international calls.
comment posted at 3:13 PM on Mar-13-09
Alone Together.
In American lore, the small town is the archetypal community, a state of grace from which city dwellers have fallen.
Yet the picture of cities—and New York in particular—that has been emerging from the work of social scientists is that the people living in them are actually less lonely. Rather than driving people apart, large
population centers pull them together, and as a rule tend to possess greater community virtues than smaller ones.
comment posted at 4:46 PM on Nov-25-08
Paris Responds
John thought he would be clever and use Paris in his campaign ad... Paris one-ups him with an even BETTER ad..(slyt) maybe NSFW if females in bathing suits are frowned upon..
comment posted at 8:36 AM on Aug-6-08
"So I hit up a garage sale over the weekend and bought a genuine, working-condition Atari 2600, with a huge stack of games nearly mint in their boxes, for a song. I thought I’d scan the box covers and give you all
a look back into the fun of yesteryear."
comment posted at 2:32 PM on Apr-22-08
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