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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight

The July glare bounces off low-rise jeans and oversized aviators as Nelly Furtado pulses from a passing silver SUV. I frame a shot of a teenager hunched over his sidekick, frantically typing a "brb" to his friends on that new Twitter site while the asphalt shimmers with a record-breaking heat. Nearby, a shop window displays a pre-order sign for the Nintendo Wii, casting a shadow over a businessman complaining into his Bluetooth headset about migrating his firm's data to some invisible AWS cloud. I click the shutter just as a man wipes sweat from his brow, eyeing a greasy bowl of chili despite the sweltering hundred-degree fever griping the city.

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Promiscuous

Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland

The must-have

Nintendo Wii

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

sketchypeepsnewbie

Text Speak

brblolomgrofltmi

Emo

rawrsqueescene

Reality Tv

you're firedthe tribe has spoken

Catchphrases of 2006

  • Truthiness

Tech Check

Twitter, Nintendo Wii & AWS (Cloud Computing).

Cost of Living (2005)

Loaf of Bread

$1.12

Gallon of Gas

$2.27

Average Home

$240,900

New Car

$24,350

Time Elapsed

7,261 days ago

(19 years, 326 days)