If you’re American, and so-so on soccer (those things may be closely related), but decided to watch the World Cup anyway, you’ve most likely heard the vuvuzela, the South African instrument whose loud buzzing sound most closely resembles that of an angry colony of bees. Maybe you don’t care about it, but then again, maybe it’s driving you crazy (or deaf, for fans attending the World Cup) and preventing you from joining the rest of the world in FootballMania.
It seems likely that efforts to restore library funding have had a positive impact on elected officials; both the Newark Star Ledger and NJ.com recently had articles that said that library funding would be cut to a much less extreme degree than originally proposed. While this sounds like good news, no specifics in these stories, and the fact that budget restorations are sometimes not passed, means that we need to keep up our efforts. If you haven’t participated in the final push to restore library funding in NJ, please do so now.
but is educational nonetheless. I don’t feel strongly about any of these ill-fated actor/role combos, but am always interested in stories of what might have been.
If you, like me, are considering purchasing a new iPhone, here are some of your best betsfor preordering (keep an eye on the Engadget updates). I haven’t 100% decided for sure that I’m getting one. I may switch to Android. All I know is that I hate hate hate my Touch Pro 2 (but that’s more WinMo’s fault than HTC’s), and am sick of installing ROM after ROM to barely approximate what Android and iPhones do with much greater ease.
How does a 3 year old, even one with a possible traumatic brain injury, just take up smoking and drinking? And who just gives a kid that age cigarettes on credit? Bonkers.
I haven’t had a Smirnoff Ice since the early 2000’s. I’d feel ashamed to admit that, but I’m sure that at some point we’ve all drunk something that we’d just as soon forget. In my defense, I was young and stupid, and SI looked really cool after you threw in a Skittle or two.
But I’m wondering what excuse people have now for this Icing thing I read about on Gothamist. (I really want to make a “young people” joke, but I’m pretty sure that most Gothamist people are my contemporaries.) The New York Times regards it as a form of viral marketing, which it certainly could be, but why would you do this? Smirnoff Ice stuff is vile. Its color-changing properties are the beginning and end of its awesomeness. My advice for summer get-togethers: save your friendships and buy some better alcohol (which you should still not force one another to consume).
It’s not much to go on, but I read a coupleof articles today that mentioned that the NJ budget that gets passed may scale back on the proposed cuts to the state’s libraries. I’m not sure how much of a reprieve they’re talking about, but I’m cautiously optimistic.
I’m really sick of hearing the words “human element” used to excuse really crappy calls in baseball, and I’m sure that now Armando Galarraga is, too. Poor guy.
My nephew marched with my library during today’s Memorial Day parade. You’d think a 5-year-old wouldn’t be able to teach us anything about how to get from the beginning of the parade to the end. You’d be wrong.
I don’t know why every parade marcher doesn’t break this out at some point during the parade route.
June 16, 2010 2:57 pm | 
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