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This new status-update field sounds like a self-conscious Carrie Bradshaw type who asks her boyfriend what he's thinking every time he's silent for more than five minutes. "I don't even know how to fill it in," Katie Tichacek says of the revised update box. An active Facebook user, Tichacek describes herself as "totally a status person - I like a quick and dirty read-through of what people are doing." Until yesterday, she was changing her status regularly with updates about what she was eating, reading or working on or where she was traveling - but with...
...status-update formula was simple, declarative: "Claire is working," "Claire is hungry," "Claire is unable to finish this article, so she is procrastinating by checking Facebook." But if I'm hungry and you ask me what's on my mind, what do I say? Do I just type "doughnuts" into the field? Then everyone I know will just see the update "Claire doughnuts...
...next fiscal year. “This is an exercise that Dean Smith is asking all administrative units in FAS to participate in,” Brandt said. “The character of this economic crisis is so global and universal that resources of every type have been affected.” Measures that administrators have taken thus far include reducing their catering budgets and leaving certain administrative positions in their office unfilled. “We’ll be able to reach Dean Smith’s goal for the administrative budget,” Brandt said...
...future, including clean coal, renewable fuels, wind and nuclear. We also call for the abolition of capital-gains taxes, which would immediately add value to the personal portfolios of every American and bring relief to anyone saving to retire, buy a home or go to college. This is the type of vivid pro-growth, pro-savings and pro-investment strategy that's needed to create jobs and restore stability to the financial markets. If President Obama used these 12 solutions as the basis for his 2010 budget, it would enjoy bipartisan support and set America on the path to recovery...
...lyrical content vacillates between drivel and schmaltz. Yet in order to maintain commercial success, perhaps NFG need do little more than tweak their music for an era unenthused with pop-punk and make angst-ridden songs about abortive romances. After all, there will always be an audience for this type of music, and while they may not expand their fan base much, New Found Glory can at least escape the haze of the late 90s by reaching out again and again to the new manifestation of the same audience. —Staff writer Joshua J. Kearney can be reached...