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Listen to this post: Comcast\’s 256 GB Cap Depending on how up to date you are on your tech news, you may or may not be aware that starting October 1st, Comcast is implementing a set 250 GB/month bandwidth cap.

My post about the resurgence of Schlitz (and other “retro” or “nostalgia” beers) generated the following question: Why did Pabst change the name of their beer to Pabst Blue Ribbon? And here’s your answer: Pabst changed the name to Pabst Blue Ribbon since it was the first beer to win a blue ribbon at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893.

Cecilia Delacroix gives a poetry reading at the Chilbo Summer Fair 2008. The Chilbo Summer Fair is well underway, with tours, rides, cultural events, and more happening every day this week! Three upcoming panels promise to be of interest to virtual world enthusiasts: Virtual Worlds Day Panel

In 1892, an entire city arose from the swamps of Chicago to host the greatest mass of people ever assembled in the United States. On the heels of the Paris World Exposition, America wanted to display its new industrial might and cultural refinement. The Chicago World’s Fair drew a crowd of 27 million.

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Lets Go to the World’s Fair - New York 1939 3 Aug 2008 Author: The Retroist In: Retro Travel, Video Someone asked me why don’t they do World’s Fairs anymore? Well they do. They just call them Expos nowadays. In fact one is going on right now in Zaragoza, Spain.

“A journey round the world. A look back in time, and a window on the future. A treasure house of religious faiths. A procession of products. And a dream of ‘Peace through Understanding.’”1 Geek Out It’s the World’s Fair! I’d imagine the bulk of my readers never got a chance—due to lack of funds, lack of time, or lack of existence—to attend the 1964-65 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, Queens.

The 20th Annual World’s Ugliest Dog contest was held last Friday at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, California.  Unfortunately the World’s Ugliest Dog contest was not aired on TV, so most of America missed it. Luckily, it will air on Animal Planet in October. Seven year old Gus, a pedigree Chinese crested won hands down.

view additional pages The New Century of Progress HOW would you like to make a trip around the world in a day, stopping for an hour or two in England and Prance, seeing the sights of Italy, Spain, Ireland and Switzerland, paying a visit to Germany and China and catching a glimpse of such out-of-the-way places as Tunis and Morocco ?

Ok, so Saturday evening, we’re scheduled to see a musical on the campus of the University of Portland. We were running just a bit behind and looking for a quick bite to eat somewhere in the neighborhood of the university. It was a little frustrating because, near a school that size, you’d think that eating places would be in plentiful supply.