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Monday, July 18, 2011
My First Garden: What I?ve Learned So Far
This is a guest post from Jenny Sandman, who writes at Broke Foodie. This summer is my first attempt at full-scale gardening. This is the first year I?ve lived in a house with a yard; previous gardening efforts were limited to containers of herbs and the odd tomato plant, on windowsills or apartment patios. To [...]
Pass notes No 3007: Harper Seven
What's the reason behind the Beckham baby's idiosyncratic name?
Age: One day.
Appearance: Baby-faced and baby-bodied.
Is it a baby? It is.
A baby named Harper Seven? Correct. Born yesterday at 7.55am in Los Angeles, Harper Seven joined Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz as the fourth child, and first daughter, of Victoria and David Beckham.
Ah, she's a Beckham. That explains the ridiculous name. What's the story behind this one? Theories abound for both parts. Some say Harper is a reference to novelist Harper Lee, the reclusive and mysterious author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Which, given that Victoria is on record as admitting "I haven't read a book in my life", seems unlikely.
What is it then? The couple's favourite orchestra member? Or the sexual position they used? Almost certainly neither. Harper is a fairly common first name in America and apparently they just fell in love with the sound of it.
And the Seven part? Well, the baby was born in the seventh month, at around 7am, weighing a little over seven pounds, to a father who not only played football in the number seven kit for both England and Manchester United but actually has the number seven tattooed in roman numerals on his forearm.
So? So it might have a little to do with that.
Boring! Or? Or it a reference to Seinfeld.
That's more like it. How? In an episode from, fittingly, season seven, George Costanza tells his fiancee Susan that he plans to name their first child Seven, calling it a beautiful name for a boy or a girl. She, naturally, laughs him out of court.
So they've gone with a name so daft that it's literally a joke? Well, it was a joke. Now the Beckhams have gone there, we'll no doubt be seeing baby Sevens for years to come.
Not to be confused with: Seven of Nine, The Magnificent Seven, Johnny Five.
Do say: "We've renamed our youngest Bassoonist Three."
Don't say: "What exactly is the harper position?"
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Russia Won't Ban Gmail or Skype Amid Security Concerns
It looks like Russia won't be banning Skype or Gmail, after all. The Kremlin was reportedly considering blocking both services, along with Hotmail, in response to a major cyberattack that crippled the country's most popular blog and an independent news site. Some within the Kremlin had believed the services posed a major threat to national security, but some critics had thought the government may have just been looking for an excuse to tighten its control over the Web -- ahead of December's parliamentary elections and next year's presidential race.Russia Won't Ban Gmail or Skype Amid Security Concerns originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Google's New Crossword-Style Trivia Game Wants Puzzlers to Search
Using agoogleaday.com instead of the regular Google shields you from real-time questions and answers, so your network and top hits won't spoil the fun. Searching down the 'Net's rabbit hole is kind of interesting, but Google really needs a way to track your success. After all, puzzle fiends solve for the glory and the feeling of completion, not the quiet satisfaction of "knowing things." Duh.
Google's New Crossword-Style Trivia Game Wants Puzzlers to Search originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sunday, July 17, 2011
Man Goes to Prison for Threatening Eric Cantor on YouTube
A man named Norman LeBoon is headed to prison after making threats to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a video posted to YouTube. In the clip, the 38-year-old LeBoon called the Republican "a liar" and "a Lucifer," and promised to shoot him. LeBoon pleaded guilty to the charges in November, and, on Thursday, was sentenced to two years in prison, along with an additional three years of supervised release.Man Goes to Prison for Threatening Eric Cantor on YouTube originally appeared on Switched on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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