weekend post-popular culture-Computer vs. TV

computer is being so popular in today's society. but how about tv? does tv still being popular like it does before computer boombed?
i still remembered that when i was small i watch tv almost everyday. i acted liek i need tv to survive. but as i grew up, technology is going to another level, and so for computer. i started to play computer games, and go on the internet, and also learn what can i do on the internet. now i am going crazy on forums and facebook, which i gotta go on those everyday. what i observed is computer is like it's going to replace tv, because ppl can watch tv on computer now, but the tv cannot be a computer.

Weekend Post-Popular culture

Rock music is one of the most popular music now. It was a new trendy culture, no matter in America, England, Asia...around the world. 

Rock music is a genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the 1950s. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, rhythm and blues, country music and also drew on folk music, jazz and classical music. The sound of rock often revolves around the electric guitar, a back beat laid down by a rhythm section of electric bass guitar, drums, and keyboard instruments such as Hammond organ, piano, or, since the 1970s, synthesizers. Along with the guitar or keyboards, saxophone and blues-style harmonica are sometimes used as soloing instruments. In its "purest form", it "has three chords, a strong, insistent back beat, and a catchy melody.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music

historical podcast

One of the worst climatic events in the history of the United States was the "Dust Bowl" drought which devastated the United States central states region known as the Great Plains. The Dust Bowl all but dried up an already depressed American economy in the 1930's creating millions of dollars in damages. With modern technology, NASA now believes the Jet Stream was partly responsible for this drought.

For eight years dust blew on the southern plains. It came in a yellowish-brown haze from the South and in rolling walls of black from the North. The simplest acts of life — breathing, eating a meal, taking a walk — were no longer simple. Children wore dust masks to and from school, women hung wet sheets over windows in a futile attempt to stop the dirt, farmers watched helplessly as their crops blew away.

The Dust Bowl of the 1930s lasted about a decade. Its primary area of impact was on the southern Plains. The northern Plains were not so badly effected, but nonetheless, the drought, windblown dust and agricultural decline were no strangers to the north. In fact the agricultural devastation helped to lengthen the Depression whose effects were felt worldwide.

 
   

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weekend post-wacky web tales

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A Special Valentine

It's fun to let people know you care about them by making them valentines for Valentine's Day. Follow these instructions to make your own weird valentine:

1. To make the valentine, you will need pieces of white paper and pieces of black paper. You will also need scissors, some them, and a marker or a(n) me.
2. Cut the white paper into the shape of a(n) you.
3. Cut a smaller you shape from the black paper.
4. Glue the black paper you onto the center of the white paper you.
5. Use the marker or the me to write a Valentine's Day message to the person. If you don't know what to write, try a phrase such as, “Won't you be my beautiful Valentine?” or “nicole thinks you are as good as katy perry!”
6. You may wish to add other decorations, such as rabbits or other paper shapes. Now you have the perfect weird valentine to give to someone special!
7. Be careful when using your scissors, and remember to clean up the area where you have been seeing.

Weekend Post-I went to Washington.

This week, on Tuesday I went to Washington. But what I don't really like is I only had one day, which is really not enough to travel and enjoy.
I got up at about 6, which was like when i go to school; we got on the bus at about 8:30, and it spent more than 4 hours to reach Washington. When we reached, we had to be really rapid, because we only have like two hours to travel. We got on a ship, which was used to see the landscapes, and then we went to the Jefferson memorial for like one and a half hour. Then we went back to NY.
It was seriously not enough to travel Washington if there's only one day; I think I will go back there next time, and stay there for several days.