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Monday, May 12, 2008
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The Headlines
In the Age of TiVo and Web Video, What Is Prime Time?
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Bleeding Love
Leona Lewis
#1 at the box office
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
$55,034,805
The must-have
Wall-E Animatronic
On This Day
An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
Wikipedia →U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Florence Nightingale (1820)
- Rishi Sunak (1980)
- Katharine Hepburn (1907)
- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895)
- Dorothy Hodgkin (1910)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
sketchypeepsnewbie
Text Speak
brblolomgrofltmi
Emo
rawrsqueescene
Reality Tv
you're firedthe tribe has spoken
Tech Check
App Store, Android (Release), Spotify & Chrome.
Cost of Living (2008)
Loaf of Bread
$1.37
Gallon of Gas
$3.27
Average Home
$229,600
New Car
$25,200
Meanwhile
- The Great Recession — Housing market crash; Lehman Brothers collapse (2008-09-15).
Time Elapsed
6,598 days ago
(18 years, 28 days)