Years

Who Should Be TIME Person of the Year?

The English Blog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Submit your ideas here. See my earlier post about TIME Magazine's Person of the Year.

Steely Dan….Reelin In The Years

El Campeador's Weblog (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

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It Was Forty-five Years Ago Today...

Mrs Morrison's Hotel (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

I was 17 years old, away from home for the first time in my life, just beginning to settle in to the start of my freshman year at St. Bonaventure. It was a gorgeous, clear, chilly fall Friday afternoon, a few days before the Thanksgiving break; the leaves were mostly gone, but the sky was an astonishing deep blue and little clouds were flying by on a cold wind. We were in Prof....

IT’S NOT ELECTRIC: The Green Car of the Year is the Volkswagen Jetta TDI….

Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

IT’S NOT ELECTRIC: The Green Car of the Year is the Volkswagen Jetta TDI.

WashingtonWatch.com Welcomes its 1,000,000th Visitor for the Year

THE CENTRIST (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008

WashingtonWatch.com Welcomes its 1,000,000th Visitor for the Year

Mike Wesch: Prof of the Year

Memex 1.1 (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Hooray! Mike Wesch has been awarded one of the U.S. Professors of the Year awards. Video of his acceptance speech is here.

Business -QlikTech named European High-Tech Entrepreneur of the Year

Good Read (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

Jennifer L. Schenker The winner of this year’s Audemars Piguet Changing Times Award is QlikTech, a company I wrote about earlier this year when BusinessWeek profiled Europe’s billion dollar babies. The award goes to the best young high-tech company originating in Europe that has demonstrated hyper-growth and a disruptive business model. QlikTech, which was founded in Sweden in 1993 and...

• QlikTech Named European High-Tech Entrepreneur of the Year - Business Week

of 19 year old abraham biggs commits suicide live on webcam

lancerlord (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

19-year-old Abraham K Biggs commits suicide live on webcam : 19-year-old Abraham K Biggs, who went by screen names "CandyJunkie", "Mr Biggs" and "Feels Like Ecstasy", committed suicide in front of a live webcam after being encouraged by people online. 19-year-old Florida resident Abraham K. Biggs told users on a bodybuilding forum he would be committing suicide that night and...

1,800-Year-Old Bronze Chariot Discovered In Bulgaria

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

SOFIA, Bulgaria — Archaeologists have unearthed an elaborately decorated 1,800-year-old chariot sheathed in bronze at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, the head of the excavation said Friday. "The lavishly ornamented four-wheel chariot dates back to the end of the second century A.D.," Veselin Ignatov told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from the site, near the...

• They found something even older than Mc$hame …. - Mock, Paper, Scissors
• Bulgarian archaeologists unearth ancient chariot - Three Dollars a Day
• See the 14 articles on the same subject

19 Year Old Commits Suicide Live On Justin.tv

Jab (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Abraham K. Biggs a 19 year old man broadcasted his own suicide on Justin.tv. Apparently he was being compelled by the commentators of Justin.tv to commit suicide and as he overdosed on pills viewers watched while he was still breathing and decided to call the police when they realized he wasn't faking anything. This hasn't been the first time an online suicide has been committed sometime ago...

19-Year-Old In Florida Commits Suicide Live Online!

iBlog126 (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

MSN repeorts "A 19-year-old Florida man who committed suicide by overdosing, broadcast the incident on the Internet, where he was egged on by viewers who thought it was a hoax"

45 years ago today...

Random Musings (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963 Photo courtesy the archives of Life Magazine, accessed through Google

Apple Spent $486 Million On Advertising Last Year

The Raw Feed (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

One of Apple's most recent ads slams Microsoft for spending too much on advertising and not enough on "fixing Vista." But according to a filing with the SEC, Apple spent $486 million on advertising last year.

Playmates of the Year Kara Monaco & Janine Habeck at Tabu

Vegas Syndicate (Free subscription) | yesterday

2006 Playmate of the Year, Kara Monaco, & 2005 German Playmate of the Year, Janine Habeck, at Tabu Where: Tabu Ultra Lounge When: Saturday November 22nd Doors: Open at 10:00pm Dress Code:...

8 Years of Guy's Life Condensed Into Minutes

gigglesugar (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

This nerdy-cute guy took pictures of himself for eight years straight. Here's a flash video stroll through those years. He starts looking a little sketchy toward the end (click here to see those years condensed into 8 images), but in general, he doesn't change much! I'm just glad he ditched the homeless serial killer look in image 7 for her cute-guy-in-glasses look.