From the day
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
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The Headlines
High-Tech Japan Running Out of Engineers
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
You Share a Birthday With
- Enya (1961)
- Edward Jenner (1749)
- Henri Barbusse (1873)
- Erik Satie (1866)
- Alfonso XIII (1886)
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
6,593 days ago
(18 years, 23 days)