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The Linguistic Banhammer Falls Again

wendell — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:29:38 -0800

How am I gonna introduce my annual post about the annual LSSU Banished Words List when "It's that time of year again" has itself just been banished? Maybe with an assortment of links not-very-related to the words on This Year's List... (Going) Green Carbon Footprint / Carbon Offset Maverick First Dude Bailout Wall Street / Main Street -Monkey <3> Icon/Iconic Game Changer Staycation Desperate Search Not So Much Winner of X Nominations It's That Time of Year Again

Filibustering The Frist Center

nathanrudy — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:50:49 -0800

Princeton Students and Polticians Stage Filibuster -- Princeton students started a filibuster at the Frist Campus Center at Princeton University to protest the impending unloading of the "nuclear option" in the United States Senate. Bill Frist is a Princeton alum and his family donated the building the filibuster is in front of. It's been going on for a whopping 78 hours already and looks to at least go through the weekend. Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ) spoke earlier today, and NJ Assemblyman Reed Gusciora was there yesterday. They've even got physicists (one and two) and a Nobel Prize winner.

Only geeks read on Friday nights

bonaldi — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 08:44:34 -0800

Nominations for the best software essays of 2004. There's lots of reading here, pardners, and much of it is great.

neuroshred — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 16:58:32 -0800

Nominations for the Grammy Awards were announced this morning. A crop of new female artists (India.Arie, Nelly Furtado, Alicia Keyes) scored big, and Michael Jackson got yet another nomination. Which was your favorite nomination? Who should have been nominated? Do Grammy voters have a clue?