Word: superealism
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...nuisance with using Facebook apps is that it's not always clear how they work. Tina House of Combine, Tex., says she accidentally posted a Valentine's Day greeting that said "I love you," not just to her husband, but to all of her friends, while using the application Super Wall, because she did not realize that the program defaulted to sending the posting to everyone. "I still shudder over that one," she says. And because advertisements are slickly intertwined with the apps - they often use the exact same font and graphics - it's easy to inadvertently click...
...staffing the tech firms of Silicon Valley, and the outsourcing of much of America's after-hours tech support to India, has led many in the West see this country as a nation of 1.2 billion software engineers. The Indian Institute of Technology brand owes much to Asok, the super-geek of the popular comic strip Dilbert, who claims to be "mentally superior to most people on earth," is trained to sleep only on national holidays, and can reincarnate from his own DNA. But studies point out that while India's pool of 14 million university graduates grows...
...Super Bowl is known for its prominent and high-budget beer advertisements, which this year took up four minutes of commercial time. While the beer ads that show up during the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) yearly basketball tournament are not nearly as infamous, a substantial portion of its advertising is for beer. According to the organization’s own bylaws, it cannot advertise for hard liquor, but it only puts a cap on the amount of beer advertising that can be shown during a game—a cap that was exceeded in at least...
...every state save for Wisconsin Clinton has won the white working-class vote, moderate swing voters sometimes called Reagan Democrats; her advantage in that demographic helped Clinton win Ohio by 10.5 percentage points. "Obama used the word 'bitter' when he should have said 'frustrated,'" said Donna Brazile, an undecided Super Delegate who ran Al Gore's presidential campaign in 2000. "Clearly Obama's comments were 'unartful,' but not inaccurate. Polls show most voters are dissatisfied with the current direction of the country. And politicians have always played on their fears-and used issues like crime, welfare, gay rights and abortion...
...Making first serves, making returns is what won me the match.”The Crimson’s only loss came at No. 1, where senior Ashwin Kumar turned what looked like it was going to be a slaughter into a match that ended with a dizzying super-tiebreaker. “He was running around on the baseline, [and] that’s not anything close to his game,” Harvard coach Dave Fish ’72 said of Kumar’s listless 6-1 first set loss. “He?...