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Freshman Footsteps | Fighting procrastination before a new semester
College freshman Elizabeth Argall already has her eye on winter break and relaxation in mind.
Chef reflects on switch to Bon Appetit
Brian Walcott, a 25-year Penn chef, reflects on the switch from Aramark to Bon Appetit. Penn Dining made the change this year.
Freshman Footsteps | From tutoring to ‘tighty whities,’ a full first term
Follow freshman Elizabeth Argall as she navigates through freshman year at Penn.
Scissors and style on 39th Street
College senior Collin Williams’ father used to cut his hair. And when Williams was 15, his father passed the scissors to the next generation — literally.
New Hey Day toast rooted in old tradition | Interactive timeline
Once the central hub and meeting place on campus before closing in 2003, the Palladium Bar - a restaurant and bar on 36th Street and Locust Walk where the ARCH building now stands - was also the anchor of a Hey Day tradition. As juniors paraded down Locust Walk, seniors toasted the procession from the bar.
Live Mesh program moves toward synchronization
With the future of computing trending toward synchronization across all of a users' devices, Microsoft's Live Mesh attempts to take a step in that direction. Live Mesh is a free service that aims to provide users with 5 gigabytes of space online to share and sync their files among all their Internet-enabled devices, from their desktops to their mobile phones.
Books of the future include tweeting characters and interaction with readers
If Bradley Inman is right, books will no longer be just printed words, but will involve videos supplementing the storyline, characters "tweeting" away their thoughts online and readers collaborating and revising the original story. Inman is the man behind the "Vook," an e-book platform that wraps text, video, and social networking together into one package.
iPhone becomes 'one hub' for campus info
Besides merely serving as a distraction in that political science class you now realize was a mistake signing up for, perhaps that iPhone or BlackBerry will actually give you the power to drop the class on the spot. At Stanford - and more recently, Duke - that choice will soon be available to students on campus.
iTunes increases song prices to $1.29
The rollout of the Apple iTunes Music Store three-tiered pricing system last Tuesday has already drawn criticism, copycats and apparent declines in sales rankings among some of the top 100 songs. In January, Apple had announced it would soon begin selling all DRM-free songs with the introduction of the new pricing levels of $.
Food-ordering site GrubHub.com launches in Phila.
The new kid on the online food-ordering block is now GrubHub.com, which went live for Philadelphians last week. GrubHub aims to provide a comprehensive list of restaurants' menus while also working with some restaurants to streamline their delivery and pickup business through online ordering.