I do it all the time and really think it is a great convenience – that is printing out your boarding pass at home and being able to go straight to the security line at the airport. However I have long thought that there was a pretty big security flaw with the whole operation – [...]
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All week the Daily Show is hosting its ‘ Midwest Midterm Midtacular‘ from the campus at Ohio State. Due to the fact that so few tickets were available and that more then the 1000 folks who got them (I got free tickets via email but won’t be able to use them this Thursday due to [...]
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As an alum I recieved some emails awhile back from Gene Nichol, the president of William and Mary concerning the use of the nickname ‘Tribe’ and our logo of two feathers coming out of a W & M. I never thought the logo was the best one, so I wasn’t that upset to learn that [...]
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A good op-ed piece in yesterdays New York time, that I just heard the author interviewed on Talk of the Nation. The piece sets out the pro and con reasons to move to Omaha. Omaha? you say… Well the arguments for escaping New York or L.A. are pretty good, you get good schools, big yard, [...]
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“Not since the days of khaki colonialism has buying Africa been so sexy, so fashionable.” -Richard Kim You might have heard about (product) red a series of products that are branded red (including iPods, tshirts from the gap, credit cards from American Express and more) and that when purchased give some amount to fight AIDs [...]
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This American Life, a radio show from PRI, which goes through some stories in-depth on a theme, sounds simple enough, but they have a vignette / slice of life aspect to them that is quite beautiful. Anyway, episode #314, which was from June I believe, but you can listen to them streaming online at thislife.org, contains [...]
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OSU v. Michigan, the final regular game of the season each year is shaping up to be possibly one of the biggest games ever played. With it looking more and more like an undefeated number 1 ranked Ohio State playing an undefeated number 2 ranked Michigan, Ohio Stadium is going to be electric. The excitement [...]
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Ali G aka Sacha Baron Cohen aka Borat from Kazakhstan, duped a number of folks into being in his movie (he did pay them, and they said the things they said knowing it was on camera). The question comes up can they sue him for ‘tricking’ them. The Slate explainer goes over the release forms [...]
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So the folks at wordpress.com are constantly adding new features and tweaking the old. When I decided to switch over here you may recall that categories were one of the reasons I cited. Also it was exciting I thought to be on something new and growing, getting into the band before they broke it big [...]
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Running a marathon sounds so lazy, at least compared to Dean Karnazes, ‘ultra-marathon man’ who is running 50 marathons, not in one year, but rather 50 consecutive days. He may be crazy, but he is running for a cause, raising money for Karno kids that works to encourage kids to be more active. Dean has [...]
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