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I must admit that I haven’t played many Flash based web games in recent years. I suppose it’s because I used to get many of the links from Brian who no longer works with me here at Language Weaver (come on Brian - keep sending me the links!). In any case, I came across a fun Flash game today that is utterly pointless. In the spirit of hitting a penguin, you’ve got “Throw Me” which is basically a ball that you attempt to throw as far as you can. Enjoy!

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OMG - I nearly fell over laughing this morning as I came across this video clip of a Teen Beauty Pageant. Miss Teen South Carolina was asked the following question:

“Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the United States on a world map. Why do you think this is?”

Her answer is.. how shall we say it.. amazing.

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Cornell students and alumni - be proud (although you should have been proud to begin with of course). Newsweek has named Cornell University the “Hottest Ivy” this year in their “25 Hottest Schools” article here. Here’s the blurb about the school:

Unlike the other Ivies, Cornell is a land-grant college emphasizing problem solving as well as scholarly debate. The university boasts a world-class engineering college and top-flight liberal arts, science and fine arts. The hotel school is considered the world’s best. Cornellians, proud of the variety on campus, point to the president, David Skorton, a cardiologist, jazz musician and computer scientist who is the first in his family to have a college education.

Oh yeah.. GO BIG RED!

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Go Forest Hills! Cottage Living has voted the Forest Hills Gardens as their number one Cottage Community for 2007. Here’s a quote from the headline:

This is the model cottage community, designed almost a century ago and emulated ever since.

Having lived in Forest Hills for a number of years, I can certainly vouch for how beautiful the gardens are. If there was one place I’d love to raise a family in NYC, it would have to be Forest Hills Gardens.  Come out of the subway system, walk towards the LIRR overpass, and prepare to be transported to a place that has no resemblance to NYC whatsoever. Seriously folks.. the minute you pass the LIRR station, you’ll feel like you’re in some old school New England town - complete with cobblestone streets (although they’re not everywhere of course). Very cool stuff. Thanks to my sis for this info.

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Oh no! Say it ain’t so Pinkberry! ABC Eyewitness News in NYC caught some video footage of mice roaming freely in a Pinkberry store located on the upper east side of Manhattan (82nd and Second Ave.) The news crew came out to film the rodents after they were notified by several residents in the area that noticed the mice roaming the store at 2:30 in the morning.  When asked about the problem, store manager Dan Morrissey had this to say:

“Last night we had our exterminators come out. We re-cleaned again this morning after their visit … Their going to be coming by twice a week now”.

So is this a problem isolated to that Pinkberry store on the upper east side? Maybe not. The story goes on to say that the 32nd Street location of Pinkberry also had problems with mice and barely passed a recent health department inspection.

For those of you unfamiliar with the store, Pinkberry is a popular yogurt that quickly expanded here in Los Angeles and now in NYC. We frequently check out the West LA location of Pinkberry and its been pretty good to us thus far. However, there was one incident where a friend of mine had ordered Pinkberry Yogurt with fruit and found a dead ladybug in the fruit. Needless to say, I was a little more careful with what I was eating from Pinkberry next time.

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