Archive for the 'Life & Living' Category
Talk about a serious outage. Payment gateway service provider Authorize.net has been down and out for several hours, a number of tipsters inform us. That has big implications: since the service is used by tens of thousands of e-commerce vendors to accept credit card and electronic checks payments on their websites (example), it likely [...]
July 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Computer & Internet, Life & Living | 3 Comments
For more than a decade, Nanette Tarbouni has been the peppy and friendly face behind the increasingly daunting admissions office at Washington University. When she began working there 25 years ago, the school received about 5,000 applications for the freshman class — and accepted more than 70 percent of them. This year, [...]
June 28th, 2009 | Posted in Life & Living | 2 Comments
Pioneering Seattle rock band Sunny Day Real Estate will return to the road with its four original members this fall and will reissue its first two Sub Pop albums on Sept. 15. These will be the band’s first shows of any kind since November 2000, and the first with its classic lineup since 1998. [...]
June 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Life & Living, Popular Topics Today | 3 Comments
A few months ago, I discovered Kids Crooked Houses, creative playhouses for kids that look like cartoons that have sprung to life, and planned to do a post about them. Then I saw them featured on Jon & Kate Plus 8 last night, and it was fun to see the four Crooked Houses they created [...]
June 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Life & Living | No Comments
The story of an angry wife, her beat down husband, and their 8 adorable kids reached a new low when they announced their split and a filing for a legal separation/divorce.
That is not the shocking part for fans of the reality show. Personally I expect that any good parent would immediately stop filming. It does [...]
June 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Life & Living | No Comments
Kids crooked playhouse – Crooked House is the right place and way of every child to experience the joy of active, imaginative play, and this is good idea for parenting education. Kids Crooked House can build one-of-a-kind, unique custom playhouses specifically tailored to the interests or needs of your child.
Cricket House or Kids Crooked playhouse [...]
June 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Life & Living | No Comments
A terrible event has occurred on the DC Metro subway line. Two confirmed dead, mass casualties expected. It seems two trains have collided and the latest reports say two people have died, and several people have been injured. It makes you wonder whether someone wasn’t paying attention, as in the past where conductors have been [...]
June 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Life & Living, Popular Topics Today | 3 Comments
Today, the Athens Banner-Herald recognizes 10 outstanding members of the Class of 2009 — the winners of our Best & Brightest Awards. This is the first year the Banner-Herald has selected top high school seniors for this award.
We ran ballots in the newspaper inviting all to nominate students. To be considered, students needed to create [...]
June 19th, 2009 | Posted in Life & Living, Popular Topics Today | 3 Comments
It didn’t last long, but commuters in Raleigh, North Carolina were treated to a whimsical display of street art recently, as a 22-year-old NC State student (allegedly) assembled a barrel monster out of bright orange traffic barrels and put it to work directing traffic on a busy public street. Police say Joseph Carnevale is being [...]
June 18th, 2009 | Posted in Life & Living, Popular Topics Today | 2 Comments
Watch LIVE streaming video of the US Open online! The US Open at USOpen.com can be watched with live streaming video.
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June 18th, 2009 | Posted in Computer & Internet, Entertainment, Life & Living, Popular Topics Today, Sports | 2 Comments