Family Dollar's Urban Shift

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Three Digital Technology Entrepreneurs
Collaborate to Stimulate Math and
Science Learning in Urban Areas with the
Urban Video Game Academy

Three Digital Technology Entrepreneurs
Collaborate to Stimulate Math and
Science Learning in Urban Areas with the
Urban Video Game Academy 06/05/2005 10:52 PM
Digital Arts & Technology Learning Center announces the Urban Video Game Academy at E3. The newly formed private non-profit organization will use the video game development model to enhance math and science performance in school-age students across the US. [PRWEB May 20, 2005]

AFA - American Family Association -
Promoting Traditional Family Values

AFA - American Family Association -
Promoting Traditional Family Values 12/22/2003 02:07 AM
AFA - American Family Association - Promoting Traditional Family Values .. rabidly-stupid right-wing crazies .. AFA

afa.net
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Here is a prayer of safety you can pray
for your family on Halloween: Father, in
the Name of Jesus, I thank You that You
watch over Your Word to perform it. I
thank You that my family and I dwell in
the secret place of the Most High and
that we remain st

Here is a prayer of safety you can pray
for your family on Halloween: Father, in
the Name of Jesus, I thank You that You
watch over Your Word to perform it. I
thank You that my family and I dwell in
the secret place of the Most High and
that we remain st 11/02/2003 03:12 AM

kcm.org/studycenter/articles/seasonal/halloween.html
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Mai Logic Licenses IBM's Elastic
Interface Technology For Its Articia
Chipset Family and Teron Series Systems
in Support of PowerPC 970 Microprocessor
Family.

Mai Logic Licenses IBM's Elastic
Interface Technology For Its Articia
Chipset Family and Teron Series Systems
in Support of PowerPC 970 Microprocessor
Family. 01/03/2004 02:34 AM
Mai Logic Licenses IBM's Elastic Interface Technology For Its Articia Chipset Family and Teron Series Systems in Support of PowerPC 970 Microprocessor Family.

Family Business Experts Credits Family
Business Synergy As Key To Baxa
Corporation’s Success

Family Business Experts Credits Family
Business Synergy As Key To Baxa
Corporation’s Success 06/05/2005 11:58 PM
Baxa Corporation is featured in a recently published “Family Business Experts” profile detailing the key to the company’s 30 years of success in product innovation and customer responsiveness. The company was selected as the featured family business for the Family Business Institute’s (FBI) top-ranked Internet site, because Baxa met criteria as both a positive family and a business success story. The profile details the company’s 30 years of success in product innovation and customer responsiveness, crediting that success secret to family business synergy. [PRWEB May 23, 2005]

ContentWatch Announces “Family Safe”
Recognition for Family Safe Web Sites on
the Internet

ContentWatch Announces “Family Safe”
Recognition for Family Safe Web Sites on
the Internet 09/24/2004 03:13 AM
ContentWatch announces its Family Safe Program, complete with a new "Family Safe" Award for websites, a list of family safe websites, and internet and email protection products for homes and businesses. [PRWEB Sep 24, 2004]

Urban birdcalls

Urban birdcalls 02/10/2004 02:55 AM
On my way back to the office after lunch, I heard a whistle from far down the street. A second later, I heard another. Whistle after whistle sounded, each closer than the next. It was only when I saw a man in uniform checking the parking meters down the block that I also noticed several whistling men heading for their not-so-legally parked delivery trucks....

Another Urban Legend

Another Urban Legend 12/19/2004 03:55 PM
I got the following from a family member today: Starting Jan 1, 2005, all cell phone numbers will be made public to telemarketing firms. So this means as of Jan 1, your cell phone may start ringing off the hook...

Urban Shadow

Urban Shadow 07/18/2004 06:59 AM
New spark in project!

Urban archaeologist

Urban archaeologist 06/16/2004 10:20 AM
Julia Solis is the intrepid explorer behind Dark Passage, a magnificent Web site showcasing the urban ruins of New York City and elsewhere. An abandoned hospital, a deserted jail, a hollow subway tubes... all are subjected to Soils's "exercises in forensic archaeology." Smithsonian magazine recently published a profile of Solis:

"These places contain the residue of the many souls that have passed through over the years," she says. "The less a place has been explored, the better, because the air hasn't been diluted and the soul marks are fresh."

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"The urban maze"

"The urban maze" 08/22/2004 04:11 AM

Is Privacy an Urban Myth?

Is Privacy an Urban Myth? 01/27/2004 10:17 AM
Howard Dean seems to be on record as stating that citizens should be required to use a government-issued ID before they can log on to the Internet. He also seems to say that PC manufacturers should be required to add card-readers to all of their PC products to facilitate this. Read for yourself and draw your own conclusions.

The State of Urban Wireless

The State of Urban Wireless 06/14/2004 10:09 AM

Urban and Rural Planning

Urban and Rural Planning 02/10/2004 02:54 AM
marcus evans Feb 3 2004 5:05PM GMT

Urban Cowboys and Car Insurance

Urban Cowboys and Car Insurance 06/25/2004 01:52 PM
Fake farmers are getting a dishonest discount -- and city drivers are paying the price.

Another urban legend debunked

Another urban legend debunked 11/05/2003 01:49 AM
ESA astronaut, Pedro Duque writes "I am writing these notes in the Soyuz with a cheap ballpoint pen. Why is that important? As it happens, I've been working in space programmes for seventeen years, eleven of these as an astronaut, and I've always believed, because that is what I've always been told, that normal ballpoint pens don't work in space... and here I am, it doesn't stop working and it doesn't 'spit' or anything. Sometimes being too cautious keeps you from trying, and therefore things are built more complex than necessary." From Snopes: Fisher spent over one million dollars in trying to perfect the ball point pen before he made his first successful pressurized pens in 1965, which NASA uses. [via GearBits]

Urban legend diffusion

Urban legend diffusion 08/23/2004 04:46 AM

Mizuka just asked me if I had heard about some guy who was busted for making tons of money trading stocks who claims to be a time-traveler. The story was that he would show them the time-machine if they let him go. She said her Japanese friends were talking about it. I laughed and checked Google News with an assortment of keywords with no results. I wandered over to #joiito . Soon enough nichlas came up with a link to a WWN article from March, 2003 about the story. Just as I was wondering if this was something to blog about, KevinMarks page-slapped us with the snopes.com entry from April 2003 debunking the story.

I would really love to see the path that this silly story took over the last 1 1/2 years to get from WWN to me via the Japanese girls gossip network.

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Re-thinking urban car journeys

Re-thinking urban car journeys 04/16/2005 05:34 AM
An automated car rental system could help reduce traffic congestion in big cities.

Alliance Against Urban 4x4s

Alliance Against Urban 4x4s 04/17/2005 03:22 PM
Alliance against Urban 4x4s (SUVs) Facts, figures and references covering the environment, safety issues, bull bars, and possible new taxes.

Best.. Urban... Exploration.. Site..
EVER.

Best.. Urban... Exploration.. Site..
EVER. 05/23/2004 12:15 AM
You've probably seen Modern Ruins, Forgotten New York, and even Lost America... but have you seen the abandoned island of G unkanjima? [via Boing Boing]

Wired 11.04: Sub-Urban Renewal

Wired 11.04: Sub-Urban Renewal 03/15/2003 05:59 AM
Colonizing Down Under (the Earth) .. Wired 11.04: Sub-Urban Renewal .. building underground .. underground

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Focus on the Family and Digital Praise
Unveil Two New Interactive Computer
Games Based on Adventures in Odyssey;
One of America’s Most Popular Family
Radio Shows Comes to Life in Interactive
Computer Games

Focus on the Family and Digital Praise
Unveil Two New Interactive Computer
Games Based on Adventures in Odyssey;
One of America’s Most Popular Family
Radio Shows Comes to Life in Interactive
Computer Games 06/30/2004 03:04 AM
New game titles announced for ages 8 and up; Titles based on Adventures in Odyssey radio show. [PRWEB Jun 30, 2004]

Anthony Townsend on urban wireless

Anthony Townsend on urban wireless 07/07/2004 12:48 PM
Grassroots Wi-Fi activist Anthony Townsend, co-founder of NYCwireless and Wireless Commons, has published a new article in the architecture journal Praxis. The paper is called "Digitally Mediated Urban Space: New Lessons for Design." From Anthony's blog:

"I sought to lay out the way I've been thinking about the rapid and sometimes chaotic introduction of four classes of digital technology into urban space (wireless, GPS/positioning, GIS, and displays). I investigate these trends in four cases: Times Square and Union Square in New York, Tokyo's Shibuya Crossing, and Seoul's proposed Digital Media City."

L ink (via Howard Rheingold's journal on TheFeature)

Councils 'fail on urban sprawl'

Councils 'fail on urban sprawl' 06/28/2004 01:29 PM
Countryside campaigners name English councils they say are missing targets to limit urban sprawl.

Urban parks come to life (USATODAY.com)

Urban parks come to life (USATODAY.com) 08/06/2004 05:53 AM
USATODAY.com - To a casual observer, the 4-acre tract of grass, kudzu, live oaks and mulberry trees is merely a patch of green in a city without very many. But to residents of Cabbagetown, a century-old neighborhood being reshaped by gentrification, the site represents a hard-won dream: a new neighborhood park.

Urban farmers reclaim Detroit

Urban farmers reclaim Detroit 12/11/2003 09:39 AM
In Detroit, urban farmers, frustrated with buying their groceries at Party Stores now that the grocery chains have largely pulled out of the city, have begun to reclaim Detroit's vast empty spaces for grow-your-own operations, complete with livestock and tractors.

After decades of blight, large swathes of Detroit are being reclaimed by nature. Roughly a third of this 139-square-mile city consists of weed-choked lots and dilapidated buildings. Satellite images show an urban core giving way to an urban prairie.

Rather than fight this return to nature, Mr. Weertz and other urban farmers have embraced it, gradually converting 15 acres of idle land into more than 40 community gardens and microfarms — some consuming entire blocks.

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Computer Myths And Urban Legends

Computer Myths And Urban Legends 06/28/2004 01:18 PM
Seems like a fairly slow Monday morning, but PC World has put out their own version of Snopes-style urban-myth debunkings for a variety of technology legends that (for the most part) just aren't true at all. So, stop worrying about magnets getting near your PC and feel free to yank out USB cables (as long as no data is going over them) without "stopping" the devices first.

Chicken Eglu For Urban Egg Wranglers

Chicken Eglu For Urban Egg Wranglers 04/14/2004 11:57 AM
JOEL JOHNSON -- For those that want that fresh chicken butt taste without leaving the house, the Omlet Eglu is the "world's most stylish and innovative chicken house." For a little under $600, Omlet will provide an Eglu, two chickens, feed and more--everything you need to raise your own chickens...

Stylish digs for urban chickens

Stylish digs for urban chickens 04/14/2004 10:31 AM
You won't find any subservient chickens in these future-forward poultry housing units. Designed so that city-dwelling humans can add a little bokbok to their daily lives, the eglu may just be "the world's most stylish and innovative chicken house and [a] perfect way to keep chickens as pets."
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Red tape hinders urban renewal

Red tape hinders urban renewal 07/28/2004 10:08 PM
Bureaucracy and 'unfair' taxation hamper the use of historic buildings in regeneration schemes, says a new report.

The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet?

The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? 05/30/2004 07:02 PM

Identifying Hoaxes and Urban Legends

Identifying Hoaxes and Urban Legends 05/19/2004 04:30 PM

Folk street-art in discarded urban space

Folk street-art in discarded urban space 02/10/2004 04:49 AM
BoingBoing reader Heidi says,

"Rob Walker writes about the North Claiborne area of New Orleans, where a community still uses an area as public space -- even though it's now under a freeway. Some of the highway support columns are painted with murals, but the most interesting column is plastered with newspaper obituaries of neighborhood residents. Photos are included in the essay."

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Follow The Virus Cost Urban Myth

Follow The Virus Cost Urban Myth 01/22/2004 03:08 AM
We've all heard stories of some company or organization coming up with a number for something that gets reported somewhere and becomes quoted as fact. Remember that internet usage was doublin g every 90 to 100 days? Jeremy Wagstaff has written up a nice summary of how a made up quote about the cost of virus damage in 2003 is spreading around the world. It's a little unclear how it all started, but it appears that someone from Trend Micro came up with the number - but the company now denies they would or could come up with such a number. However, Reuters ran an article that quotes someone from Trend Micro with the number - and despite the supposed retraction from Trend Micro, the story (and the number) live on in many places. Trend Micro doesn't seem to mind this publicity - even if it's based on something they claim they never said. The interesting thing isn't so much the specifics, but how quickly such a "fact" can spread, and never be questioned online.

Urban stars headline Royal event

Urban stars headline Royal event 05/08/2004 04:08 PM
US stars Beyonce and Jay-Z are set to perform at the Prince's Trust Urban Music Festival.

U.S. Seeks Cuts in Housing Aid to Urban
Poor

U.S. Seeks Cuts in Housing Aid to Urban
Poor 09/22/2004 04:27 AM
The Bush administration has proposed reducing the value of subsidized-housing vouchers in New York City and some urban areas of New England.

Fixed-Gear Bikes an Urban Fixture

Fixed-Gear Bikes an Urban Fixture 04/07/2005 05:02 AM
Often brakeless and always exciting, single-speed track bicycles are not just for kamikaze bike messengers anymore. Hipsters are flocking to 'fixies' for the bikes' simplicity -- and their street cred. By Ryan Singel.

"Urban Legends Reference Pages: Pain in
the Gas"

"Urban Legends Reference Pages: Pain in
the Gas" 05/19/2004 10:25 AM

Officials Dismiss Coyote Urban Legend
(AP)

Officials Dismiss Coyote Urban Legend
(AP) 12/28/2004 01:11 PM
AP - Did you hear the one about the insurance agent and the coyote?
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