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Entries from May 2008

Radiohead: High and Wet

May 13th, 2008 · 6093 Comments

After much anticipation and hype, Sunday night’s Radiohead show at Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, Virginia proved to live up to its expectations and more. On a cold, rainy May evening, thousands of fans flocked to the show — some in flip flops and shorts even — anxious to see a band the Wall Street Journal recently […]

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Tags: Music

An Order of Cowboy Leg Man Fruit, Please!

May 12th, 2008 · 4439 Comments

  

This is a MOST hilarious menu in busted English:   

http://www.rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order/ 

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Tags: Nightlife · food

How would you like your baby?

May 12th, 2008 · 368 Comments

The United Kingdom’s reproductive technology regulators have just confirmed research done by a team of scientists at Cornell University, who were the first to genetically modify a human embryo. The research was presented in 2007, at the annual American Society for Reproductive Medicine meeting, but wasn’t publicized until the research was confirmed. The embryo was […]

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Tags: Technology

Thursday Farmers Market in Riverdale Park

May 11th, 2008 · 3904 Comments

Last Thursday, I went to the Riverdale Park Farmers Market. Did you realize that it is only a short bike ride or walk from campus?

I went with my husband and son, and we took the “back” way (simply following the yellow signs set-up, beginning on River Road, just past the metro), through parking lots and residential […]

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Tags: Music · food

I dub thee–Retro Week!

May 5th, 2008 · 1286 Comments

Some time two weeks ago or so, I ended up looking up Spyro the Dragon music on Youtube and enjoying it and I played Sonic games with my friend Bob. Just about everyone recognizes that the Sega Genesis owns soooo…
I have brought my Sega Genesis on campus and left my 360 home while replacing it […]

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Tags: Gaming

A sum of money you can’t comprehend

May 4th, 2008 · 695 Comments

$5,500,000,000
Microsoft withdrew its bid to buy Yahoo because of that amount of money. When looked at in context, Microsoft was willing to pay $47.5 billion for the seemingly simple search-engine site Yahoo, who was expecting a hardy $53 billion. It is very difficult as college students to grasp that amount of money. You may say […]

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Tags: Technology · Uncategorized