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From Stoneham:

Voters here defeated a $3 million override Tuesday, spurring a round of budget cuts that will wipe out the town’s entire high school sports program and leave hundreds of student athletes in the lurch. All 54 coaching positions, the athletic director’s job, and elementary and middle school arts and music programs were eliminated Wednesday night by the Stoneham School Committee.

Article (Boston.com)

Nuts O_O What’s a school without sports? And how much will this affect their resumes for college?

Some people dare to say that Facebook is turning into MySpace. I seriously think this is false. First of all, Facebook is nowhere near as “in-your-face” and obnoxious as MySpace is. MySpace pages have ugly layouts, music that plays as soon as you load the page, and loads of embedded content that all have the nerve to play at the same time. With Facebook, we’re starting to get the embedded content, but the developers have made a smart move by NOT making these things start playing until you actually go and click on them. That way, they’re there and you deal with them only if you want to.

The application system is great, but what really is annoying is the “invite your friends” thing. The good news is that if you go to your Inbox and click “Notifications”, there’s an eventual point where you can uncheck the application from “Show notifications from:” on the right side, and when you uncheck the notification, you can mark it as spam. Right now, I have the “X Me”, “Food Fight”, and “Free Gifts” applications marked as spam, so I will never see those invitations again. I’m pretty sure you can also block the applications so you don’t see them as well.

This is WAY better than MySpace did it, guys; at least we can choose what we want to see. At least I don’t have to deal with people’s disgusting layouts and music over my music and all of that other stuff. For now, anyway, Facebook is doing applications right. And the site is still as cool as it always was, and, dare I say, even better.

But this spring, the phenomenon of finding roommates over the social networking website Facebook, which works much like online dating, is spreading like wildfire at many colleges that allow incoming freshmen to request specific roommates. In Massachusetts they include Boston University, Northeastern, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Bentley College.

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It looks like Boston.com caught on to our future college class’s trend for finding a roommate instead of running with the luck of the draw. Read on…

Six inches sounds like a small deal, but it won’t be when you see what happened to this truck.

Whenever you’re going under certain tunnels, drive-throughs, or any other low level, there’s always a sign that says something like “CLEARANCE 12’4”” or some other measurement.

So yesterday at 4:40 AM, a truck driver was approaching the New Jersey entrance of the Lincoln tunnel. The clearance was 13”, and his truck was 13”6′. What do you think happened?

Mr. Cantu drove the entire 1.5 miles of the tunnel from Weehawken, N.J., to Manhattan, tearing his way under the Hudson River in the tunnel’s center tube and peeling back the roof of his tractor-trailer as if it were a tin can. No one was injured, but an undetermined number of decorative tunnel ceiling tiles were ripped off.

He ripped off the top of his truck and damaged the tunnel. I have a feeling the Lincon tunnel authority won’t be done with him for some time now. Check the original article for the picture and the whole story.

Starting this month, special cooling fans will be installed in most downtown underground stations to lower the air temperature, in some cases by 15 to 25 degrees, and to reduce humidity.

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That sounds like progress. I was thinking at first “No! They’re not putting them in Ashmont and Mattapan?”, then I realized that these are outdoor, above-ground stations, unlike parts of Forest Hills and most other greater Boston stations (Downtown Crossing, New England Medical, etc.). They’re actually going to put AC’s in the trolleys from Ashmont to Mattapan when they come back…those things always got hot!