What's in a Name ? ; KB Home and Menaul School Disagree on What the Builder Calls the Condos
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By RICHARD METCALF Journal Staff Writer  The name of KB Home's first condo project in the Albuquerque metro area, the Villas at Menaul School, has ruffled the feathers of its neighor.  "The name does not reflect our (sales) agreement," said Lindsey Gilbert, head of the Menaul School.
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What song is in your MySpace profile?   N/A.   Starbucks or Dunkin'?    Starbucks.    What Web site couldn't you live without?    Urban Outfitters.   Ever vote for Sanjaya?    N/A.
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English-derived neologism bids for world domination God alone knows what Cervantes would have made of it, but the English term "blogosphere" has slithered onto the growing list of neologisms shoehorned into the noble Castillian language, joining chatear, chip, formatear, Internet and mÃ³dem in a burgeoning list of tech and net-based foreign vocab.â¦Learn &amp; Contribute, Live &amp; Online - The Register Debates Green Computing
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The new 'tween toy from Hasbro looks and works like a cell phone. Also: Rumors fly of a Verizon bid for MCI&hellip;.  Google sits down to chat with Wall Street&hellip;. and more.
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By Raymond Hainey  Naming a new development in the village of Insch, Aberdeenshire, will be child's play.  Tulloch Homes have asked the local primary school to find a name for the site, which will have three and four-bed bungalows and villas.
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Tycho:   I detest scheduled revelry, and I think my inability to remember these manufactured hullabaloos recommends me as a person.  This perspective is not universally shared.
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Tycho:  It's the sort of pun that will only work in American English, probably.  Also, I think it increases the chance that I will be stabbed at some point.  I think I would hate that.ThreeSpeech has always made me slightly uncomfortable.  This, from their mission statement, is why:
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The G.M. Building that used to be the Newsweek Building was recently renamed 3 Columbus Circle, which has no frontage on Columbus Circle. Confused? A tale of naming rights in Manhattan.
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Plus: eBay outlines policy on racist language. [News.com Extra]
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Tycho:  We'll return to those two in a moment - for now, let's get a look at our supposed protagonists.  What are they doing?  Let's find out.  Did they make any new friends?
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Tycho: The whole reason I wrote that other post was to link the new article about it at 1up, and I didn't even manage to do that - here you go. In a way, I'm glad I didn't link it before - in the intervening period, a new episode of the 1up show has dropped that has a ton of interview and video material for every part of Episode 2 - including TF2 and Portal. It's the top video on this page. Unbelievably delicious.(CW)TB
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The computer company recalls nearly a 1 million power adapters that could start fires. Also: Microsoft continues pursuit towards the computer television & hellip;. Nextel & rsquo;s phone is a mapquest in your hand & hellip;. and more.
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By Christopher Schwarzen, Seattle Times  CORRECTION: Clarification: Information in this article, originally published May 23, was corrected June 1.
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By Ismail Turay Jr. Staff Writer  BEAVERCREEK -- Several residents are fuming over a developer's proposal to build condominiums near their homes, saying the multifamily units may attract young, irresponsible tenants, causing the neighborhood's property values to decline.
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The dot-bomb survivor is down to its last $700,000. Also: Viacom partners with a second Chinese media company & hellip;. Boeing downplays the speed of the airplane market's recovery & hellip;. and more.
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By Cecily Burt  OAKLAND -- Too tall. Too modern. Doesn't belong in a historic district. Needs lots of work.   Those comments and more have apparently doomed a proposed 37- story, futuristic condominium project atop a historic garage on Alice Street near Lake Merritt.
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Tycho:  Today's comic is based on a story we saw at Kotaku, but when I went over there to verify the link the story had been removed altogether.  For those of you playing along at home, what that means is that Kotaku