Archive for February, 2008
Project Runway: Season 4
0 Comments Published by William Peters February 28th, 2008 in Entertainment, New York, Reviews.As one contestant of Project Runway, Ricky Lizalde described of the current season, it was like a “rollercoaster.” The season was full of its characteristic ups and downs, like most reality television shows. What set this show and its season apart was the actual element of reality. As always, there was the eccentric selection of […]
We all remember the old bear which was, well, a bit more reminiscent of this guy than this guy. Certainly will work better at sports events, but I’m a bit worried about whoever’s in the monkey bear suit during the summer.
—Bill Peters
Just a reminder, we have a flickr feed here.
Wikileaks, a portal for anonymous publication of secret or suppressed documents was shut down yesterday by order of a San Francisco court judge. Apart from the First Amendment issues of such an order, the block is ineffective, taking down the wikileaks.org web address but not it’s IP address (the title of this blog post), allowing […]
Presuming no misfortune delays the paper from coming out today, an update on a story contained within it follows.
Update: It was delayed and should be here tomorrow. While rain nor snow nor dark of night does not stop the Post Office, they aren’t delivering the paper.
This current issue of the Chronicle has a cover story […]
Warning: Elevator out at 16 W.61 St.
0 Comments Published by William Peters February 12th, 2008 in NYIT.So give yourself an extra 20 minutes to get to class or a sherpa for the stairs.
Sex on the Island (it’s a working title)
0 Comments Published by William Peters February 11th, 2008 in Meta.Next month, in the March paper, the NYIT Chronicle will be starting it’s first Sex column. This column is to help students understand the importance of safe sex, good sex, and responsible sex. The column aims to bring to light interesting facts and helpful hints to keep you up to date with all the sex […]
Super Tuesday States (updating until it’s over [Ed.— it’s over])
0 Comments Published by William Peters February 5th, 2008 in '08.(Updating every fifteen minutes or so, refresh for current version)
The networks have called… (delegate totals in parentheses)
Clinton (845) — New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Arizona, California.
Obama (765) — Missouri, Delaware, Connecticut, Georgia, Alabama, Illinois, Kansas, Idaho, Minnesota, Utah, Colorado, and North Dakota.
2,025 delegates needed to win the Democratic Nomination.
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McCain (613) — Oklahoma, New […]
Super Tuesday. Tsunami Tuesday. 22 states enter, 3-4 candidates exit. The most primaries ever on one date is happening right now, and we’ll post a tally of which states when to whom later tonight as part of the leadup to our cover story on the primary season this issue (due out next week). Also, today […]
Dragged kicking and screaming into the ’00’s
0 Comments Published by William Peters February 4th, 2008 in NYIT.At long last the NYIT website has undergone a much-needed slash/burn/rebuild from the cramped and hard-to-read site into a much more attractive and useable website. Small miracles do occur here, all evidence to the contrary. Perhaps the staid functionality of NYIT Connect will be next in line for a makeover.



