Archive for 'Opinion Articles'
Why is it so dark outside at 6:30 a.m.?
The delay of Daylight Savings is another strange intervention of government that seems purposefully ineffective. Seeking to power down the nation (or the 48/50ths of us that participate in Daylight Savings) and ostensibly relieve the pressure and cost of winter utilities, the changing of clocks was pushed back another few weeks yet last year.
The [...]
Posted: October 21st, 2008 under Opinion Articles.
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Just How Smart is Apple’s Genius?
Users of Apple’s iTunes player will be blessed with a new component when they upgrade to version 8.0. It’s a program loftily titled “Genius” that combs your iTunes folder, and the folders of all other Genius participants in order to provide custom playlists and customized music recommendations to you.
That functionality is, in fact, not much [...]
Posted: September 11th, 2008 under Life in Digital, Opinion Articles.
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Jeremy Is the Only Person in America Who Didn’t Like The Dark Knight
WARNING: Spoilers ahead (if there is anyone not me who hasn’t seen the movie)
I bet you’re thinking that this topic is so over and why would I even write about it weeks after its release, when its relevance has completely dried up. Well, I just finally got around to seeing The Dark [...]
Posted: August 16th, 2008 under Opinion Articles.
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Interference Call During Red Sox Game Still Sore Spot
When a 16-year-old Waltham fan reached over to catch a ball hit by Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz in the game against the Texas Rangers on Tuesday, the umpiring call was fan interference. Ortiz was awarded second base and eventually scored in the same inning. The fan, Steve Falzone, was ejected by Fenway [...]
Posted: August 15th, 2008 under Opinion Articles, Sports News.
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Brett Favre Traded to the Jets
Well, the New York Jets finally put the coffin on the Chad Pennington era. About time. Favre is one of my favorite players ever and Green Bay was the first team I followed in professional football because of Favre, just as New England was the second because of Drew Bledsoe. The first [...]
Posted: August 7th, 2008 under Opinion Articles, Sports News.
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Don’t Let Your Kids Listen to Kidz Bop
Kidz Bop 14 makes it debut today with hits the likes of 4 Minutes, Clumsy and Bleeding Love. Don’t them? Parents, boy are you in for a surprise.
Leona Lewis’s Bleeding Love is in fact a love song, with lyrics that run along the lines of “My heart’s crippled by the vein that I [...]
Posted: July 29th, 2008 under Music Reviews, Opinion Articles.
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