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High-minded new arrival gunned down at 23
Zabel had been working as a Starbucks barista since he moved here in May and had dreams of becoming a high-school math teacher. He had recently been accepted to the Philadelphia Teaching Fellows program and was to attend graduate school at Drexel University in the fall ( Read more... ) -
Pringles can designer dies; remains buried in Pringles can
Dr. Fredric J. Baur was so proud of having designed the container for Pringles potato crisps that he asked his family to bury him in one ( Read more... ) -
relaxing summer concert series
Jun 5 - The Field @ Barbary ( Read more... ) -
1983 internet sold to be very much like internet today
I love that as far back as 1983, Compuserve was envisioning online service as a way to get drunk and chat with strangers / peer into the living rooms of other weirdos. And the concept sold... Compuserve had enough users that at the height of the dotcom boom, MCI Worldcom bought the service for a cool $1.2 billion in stock ( Read more... ) -
more posts about music and politics
"While Barack Obama and I share some eerie similarities, both having Kenyan fathers and white Midwestern mothers, and having attended Harvard and both being devastatingly handsome, it's kind of eerie. But I'm not a Democrat; the Democratic Party is about 10 miles to the right of my politics ( Read more... ) -
FACT:
When the Charlatans played a small festival in the US they played longer then the 20 minutes they were allowed to, the organizers just came on during the set and took down the drums.
When a fight started to build up, Ice-T who had been chatting to their manager before that came up and asked if he could help, offering to bring his whole crew.
