Archive for August 5th, 2008

• I was there, me too

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  Discovered August 5, 2008 at 9:00 pm

  Can you image talking to someone who knew everything about the place you used to live and they know already know everything about it? Well that’s what happen between Hugh and Abby as they were hanging out at the local coffee shop downtown Raleigh.  It seems like these two have a history, wait .. no [...]

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• I thought technology & smartphones was suppose to solve this problem

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  Discovered August 5, 2008 at 8:00 pm

  It’s 2008 and by this time I thought we would be driving in flying cars,  space flights would be an everyday thing and robots would  be doing our grocery shopping for us.  Well maybe that’s a little much but still we have all this technology now but we still find ourself writing down on a [...]

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• Amtrak wants connect the states; Mayor says just don’t disconnect downtown Raleigh

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  Discovered August 5, 2008 at 7:00 pm

  With high gas prices and now high airline prices more and more attention is going to back to the countries first high speed way of travel, trains. Tim Nelson writes about how Amtrak has its eye on building a high-speed rail linking multiple cities on the East Coast including Raleigh.  The only problem with the [...]

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• PETA loves the Durham Bulls

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  Discovered August 5, 2008 at 5:01 pm

  Ballparks are for baseball, hotdogs and beer. But what if you’re a vegetarian? Does that mean you’re stuck with peanuts? Not at the Durham Bulls Atheltic Park. PETA announced today that Durham’s ballpark rates second on its list of the country’s top 10 vegetarian-friendly minor league ballparks.

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• The ultimate honor?

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  Discovered August 5, 2008 at 5:00 pm

  Certainly there will be facilities named after President Bush when he leaves office. But I don’t know if this is what George W. Bush had in mind. The following petition was recently e-mailed to the Chapel Hill Town Council:

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• Students and Officers becoming more social using Segways

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  Discovered August 5, 2008 at 4:47 pm

  In an effort to reach the demand of growing students at Holly Springs High School, close the unapproachable gab between students and officers and keep an eye on possible unlawful activity the school has purchased a Segway to try to solve all of their problems.  I didn’t know a Segway could do all of that [...]

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• Learning rock and roll from your mom

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  Discovered August 5, 2008 at 2:32 pm

  After reading the glowing edge blog,  I’m trying to remember if my mom tried to give me music history lesson when I was a teenager, but I don’t think so.  Lisa blogs about her troubles of creating a rock band playlist for her teenage boys but not giving up, I think she’s happy with the [...]

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• Let our avatars fight!

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  Discovered August 5, 2008 at 2:19 pm

  If you’re an XBOX 360 fanboy then you’ll probablly know that soon you’ll be able to use your avatar to play in certain games.  Sounds cool right? But what if you want to use your avatar to fight your XBOX buddy or see go down in your favorite shooting game. Microsoft says no! And Matt [...]

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• Remembering the simpler days

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  Discovered August 5, 2008 at 1:32 pm

  Oh to be 5-years-old again. Shawn recently threw a birthday party for his son, and he reminds us that when you’re that young, sometimes all you need is Nerf.

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• Attention local senior citizens: The city has a job for you

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  Discovered August 5, 2008 at 12:30 pm

  The city of Raleigh plans to put its bored senior citizen population to work. Police Chief Harry Dolan plans to start a volunteer citizen patrol that will make sure drivers aren’t abusing their handicapped tags when they park downtown.

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