We’ve all been there; You’re at an outing or a dinner table with friends but itching to check your email or Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or Google+ or Yammer or whatever digital hit of serotonin you prefer. Have you ever “gone to the bathroom” in order to check email or come up with a socially [...]
People use Facebook a lot. They use it to share photos. They use it to invite people to events. They use it as an address book and messaging system. They use it as a games platform. The growth has been so staggering that Facebook is by far the most popular website and can’t even fill its existing ad [...]
You might have noticed that Facebook changed last night. Inline photos are a little bigger, the top bar a little blockier, and a news ticker now rests in the upper-righthand corner for real-time updates. Overwhelmed? We’re here to help. This latest flurry of updates caps off a steady flow of tweaks over the past [...]
Times certainly have changed over the years but maybe more when it comes to educating our young. Having attended Catholic school all my life, back then I would think nothing about getting rapped across the knuckles with an 18″ ruler or even being told I was “brazen bold”. Boy I heard that a bunch of times [...]
Worldwide, the equivalent of almost 27,000 trees is either flushed or dumped in landfills every day and roughly 10 percent of that total is attributable to toilet paper, according to the latest issue of World Watch magazine. Meanwhile, growing populations, adoption of Western lifestyles, and sanitation improvements in developing countries are driving the increased use [...]
By: The Post-Standard Editorial Board Lauren Long/The Post-Standard, 2009 SHADOWS FALL over the audience as the sun sets on last year’s Jazz Fest at Onondaga Community College. Onondaga County Comptroller Robert Antonacci is right about one thing: The Syracuse Jazz Fest is one of the region’s “family jewels.” Year after year, it lures first-rank artists to [...]
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