Tiananmen and Google

Just look how the Chinese government forced Google to alter the result of image search for Tienanmen square.
The left is the search result in Chinese version. The right is the search result in US version.

Choke up

Oprah winfrey is annoouncing her last season. Yahoo used the title, Oprah gets chocked up. Plesae enjoy the video.

choke up To be unable to speak because of strong emotion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUsglXb1Pmc&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0

Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience Friday that she would end her show in 2011 after a quarter-century on the air, saying prayer and careful thought led her to her decision.

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Hawk

A 2010 Olympic torch is being hawked in eBay.

hawk 2
vb

1. to offer (goods) for sale, as in the street


2. (tr; often foll by about) to spread (news, gossip, etc.)

hawk /hk/ noun, verb
noun

1. a strong fast bird of prey (= a bird that kills other creatures for food): He waited, watching her like a hawk (= watching her very closely).—see also sparrowhawk


2. a person, especially a politician, who supports the use of military force to solve problems dove

verb

1. [vn] to try to sell things by going from place to place asking people to buy them peddle: He made a living hawking cleaning products from door to door.


2. [v, vn] to get phlegm in your mouth when you cough see eye n.

Subway's meatball deal

Previously we have informed that subway (between 13th and 14th on Lonsdale) has a deal on its meatballs. The meatballs were provided for 1.99 for a 6 inches and 3.98 for 12 inches before tax. However, the last time I visited the subway the deal is no more offered and you could not get the deal from subway on Lonsdale.
The deals now is 4 subway sandwiches for 2.99 for its 6 inches. These sub sandwiches are cold cut, tuna, meatball and BMT.

Its address/phone are:

• 1356 Lonsdale Avenue , North Vancouver , BC V7M2H8


• Tel: 604-988-1638


• Google Map Link

Douse

Found this word reading an article in Yahoo!. The article can be found here. It is about climate change. and the title is "APEC leaders douse hopes on climate pact".

douse (also dowse) /da{phon_capu}s/ verb [vn]
1 ~ sth (with sth) to stop a fire from burning by pouring water over it; to put out a light: He doused the flames with a fire extinguisher.
2 ~ sb/sth (in / with sth) to pour a lot of liquid over sb/sth; to soak sb/sth in liquid: The car was doused in petrol and set alight.

verb

1. To plunge briefly in or into a liquid: dip, duck, dunk, immerge, immerse, souse, submerge, submerse. See enter/exit.
2. To make thoroughly wet: drench, saturate, soak, sodden, sop, souse, wet. See dry/wet.
3. To cause to stop burning or giving light: extinguish, put out, quench, snuff out. See continue/stop/pause.

Eternity

Al goes to hell. The devil tell him till the end of eternity you can not see your children and wife as a punishment.

n., pl., -ties.

1. Time without beginning or end; infinite time.
2. The state or quality of being eternal.
1. The timeless state following death.
2. The afterlife; immortality.
3. A very long or seemingly endless time: waited in the dentist's office for an eternity.

While in the popular mind, eternity often simply means existence for a limitless amount of time, many have used it to refer to a timeless existence altogether outside of time. There are a number of arguments for eternity, by which proponents of the concept, principally Aristotle, purported to prove that matter, motion, and time must have existed eternally.

Crummy

Leela and crew are discussing naming the parallel universe professor created to be Universe A or Universe B. When the other Leela said you can call your "crummy" universe, Universe A.

crummy /krAmi/ adj. (informal) of very bad quality: Most of his songs are pretty crummy.

crum·my also crumb·y (krm)
adj. crum·mi·er also crumb·i·er, crum·mi·est also crumb·i·est Slang
1. Miserable or wretched: a crummy situation in the family.
2. Shabby or cheap: a crummy little rowboat.

crummy
adj -mier, -miest Slang
1. of little value; inferior; contemptible
2. unwell or depressed to feel crummy