So, you’ve got your fancy pants on. You’re heading to the holiday party, and you’re intent on impressing your bosses, in-laws, or significant other’s friends with your worldliness and savoir-faire. Then you get too drunk, break stuff, offend people, get fired and/or dumped, and effectively ruin your life. More »
Now that you’re in a post-Thanksgiving food coma, why not wash down your feast with a hefty dose of ironic ’90s nostalgia, courtesy Alicia Keys and Jimmy Fallon?
The Grammy winner stopped by “Late Night” on Wednesday to promote her upcoming album “Girl on Fire,” but while there, performed a track that wasn’t found on her new LP: The theme song from the ’90s Disney cartoon “Gummi Bears.”
Keys transformed the high-energy jingle about the bears who are “bouncing here and there and everywhere” into a mournful ballad that probably wasn’t what the creators had in mind. Check out the original song below to compare.
NEW YORK — A longtime “Sesame Street” director who also worked on soap operas including “The Guiding Light” and “As the World Turns” has died. Emily Squires was 71.
She died Wednesday at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital.
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Your move, Devin Smith.
LSU wide receiver Jarvis Landry upped the ante in the “catch of the year” battle with a spectacular one-handed grab against Arkansas in Week 13. The sophomore wideout reached out with his right hand to snag a high dart from quarterback Zach Mettenberger to score the first touchdown of the 2012 Battle For The Golden Boot. Not only was the pass coming on a line with velocity, but Landry had to adjust to it as he was at full speed, reaching back with his right hand. Even more impressive than the adjustment to the ball was that Landry controlled the ball as he went down in the back of the end zone without ever needing his left hand. The score helped LSU take a 10-0 lead into the intermission.
Nearly as impressive as Landry’s snag was the image of the play captured by AP photographer David Quinn.
According to a statement released by the company, Damien Dinning, the Lead Program Manager for Nokia’s Smart Devices business, has quit. Following stints at Eastman Kodak and Minolta UK, Dinning joined Nokia in 2004 and was considered to be the person behind the advanced camera technology used in the company’s smartphones. More »
We never fully understood Black Friday. People travel across the country to spend Thanksgiving with the people they love. And then the next day, they get up at 6 a.m. to find the best deal and go on autopilot. Isn’t there so much else we can do on this day, surrounded by our families?
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A Kentucky teacher is being criticized for writing a politically charged statement on the whiteboard in class.
South Laurel County High School teacher Kendra Baker is drawing complaints from parents and students after she wrote, “You can’t be a democrat and go to heaven.”
Superintendent Doug Bennett told the Sentinel-Echo that the class had been discussing politics around election day, and Baker wrote the statement — which is reportedly a student comment — on the board. The statement was not part of a formal curriculum or lesson plan.
One man’s frustration with Black Friday crowds reached a boiling point early Friday morning when he was caught on video threatening to stab anyone that came too close to him.
According to CNN, the crowd at a Kmart in Sacramento, Calif. took on a “mob mentality” as the store opened its doors to shoppers who had been in line for hours.
WARNING: Extreme Language
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A bad decision can define you, unfair as that may be.
Once you make a terrible decision, it doesn’t matter what you’ve done up to that point.
That, of course, applies to sports, too. An excellent coach has one bad season and suddenly, he rivals Isiah Thomas. A perennial All Star signs with a new team and has one bad season, and suddenly, his career is over.
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If you’ve taken advantage of the myriad Black Friday deals on mobile devices and PCs, you’re probably looking for content to feed the technology beast. Google and app creators are pulling out all the stops to make sure that beast stays full: Google Play has discounts throughout the Thanksgiving weekend for just about every format on offer. Android apps are the highlight, with SwiftKey 3, Shadowgun and Documents To Go on the list of those with grander price cuts, although there’s some definite bargains to be had in media. Among the picks are price drops on books like The Hobbit, movies like The Big Lebowski and Serenity, and music from the likes of Diana Krall and Kendrick Lamar. We can’t possibly mention every offer here, so check our links for some of the larger deals.
Terrence O’Brien contributed to this report.
Filed under: Cellphones, Home Entertainment, Portable Audio/Video, Tablets, Internet, Mobile
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