Word: millenniums
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...return my requests for comment). Certainly, the notion of confessing secrets is not a new one. Public confession has existed for centuries, in a range of cultural traditions, though in recent years, society’s penchant for it has really picked up steam. In the new millennium, for instance, cyberspace has provided an outlet for confession. Not only have things like blogs and online diaries become popular, there exist sites whose express purpose is confession. The website PostSecret.com became well known earlier in the decade for publishing postcards from people confessing deep secrets. Yet PostSecret provides the option...
...began to set on what would have been an ordinary day at the beginning of the third millennium, the light shone through the window to strike two ordinary young scholars. They were hungry. But they were also privy to a different hunger. Watching how the light passed unrefracted through the simple dining hall window, they yearned for the aesthetic elevation that only a stained glass window could provide. But then again, they also wanted to eat.How, then, could they satisfy these both the most base and most cerebral of yearnings? They thought long and hard. Finally, an electronic courier proclaimed...
...direct descendant of Robert the Bruce, I would definitely reconsider it. 4. Pashminas. There is a scene in “Bridget Jones’s Diary” where Bridget defines her romantic travails in terms of pashminas. Then everyone gets drunk, yells about fin-de-millennium feminism and cries about how George Clooney from ER is their real boyfriend. I hope this sufficiently dates the trend for all of you. 3. Unflattering black pants made out of a weird stretchy material. 2. A too tight Oxford shirt made out of what seems to be a polyester blend which...
...enough of that show. But seriously, isn’t that a problem we all have? 5) DAPAs aren’t very popular in Winthrop. We want booze, not chips and salsa. 6) Those Kirklanders argue about the new Microsoft Word font. Times New Roman is so last millennium. 7) Lowell got a bit too excited about their freshman shirts…LOLhouse Lowellcats? 8) Remember last year’s Risk game? Well PfoHo won, and it has the list thread to prove it. 9) We hate the UC, and Mather wanted to do something about it. Last...
...demonstrated in the Chinese capital. New York-based Paul Notzold recently traveled to Beijing, where he used L.A.S.E.R. Tag to create a kind of performance art, encouraging pedestrians to send text messages to a central phone hooked up to his laptop. The text messages were then projected onto the Millennium Art Museum. "I was tentative about putting up unsanctioned messages on buildings, because of the government," Notzold says. "There were your typical radio shout-outs, and there were also some statements that could be kind of activist protest statements." The event took place without incident...