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Acting White: African-American students and education

Posted by: urbangeek08 on: November 30, 2009

African-American students due face diffculties within the educational system. But how about black students who may not act like the “sterotypical” African-American. For most of these students they are labeled as “white”. They are “white” because they may have interests that are not traditionally connected to the African-American community.
Here are few examples
Wearing punk-style clothes
Listening to [...]

Movies to know about…….Super-Size Me

Posted by: urbangeek08 on: November 26, 2009

We live in a world surrounded by fast food for a quick buck. But what would happen if we ate fast food all at the time? Super Size Me gives the answer to that question. American independent filmmaker Morgan Spurlock when on a McDonald’s only high-fat diet for 30 days. Not only did he gain [...]

Urban Geek Recommends….. Geek Studies

Posted by: urbangeek08 on: November 25, 2009

Geek Studies is a complete blog on studying and understanding geek culture. This is one of the very few blogs on the net that gives an academic view to geek culture. One of my favorite writings was on female geeks and how they are affected in a male-dominated geek culture. Geek culture is not childish [...]

Vanness Wu teaches Xiao Xiao Bin to tie shoelace; ratings break 5%

Posted by: urbangeek08 on: November 24, 2009

The Sunday idol drama ratings have been released and with Xiao Xiao Bin’s help once again, ‘Autumn’s Concerto’ has broke 5%, with a big lead against ‘Hi My Sweetheart’ & ‘Momo Love’. The battlefield seems to be very clear now.
On Sunday night, ‘Autumn’s Concerto’ broadcasted Vanness & Ady’s reunion after being separated for 6 years, [...]

Tomorrow Ever After performing at Miramar Theater

Posted by: urbangeek08 on: November 23, 2009

Tomorrow Ever After will be performing live at WMSE November 24th at 8 p.m.  They will be playing brand new material durning the broadcast. Their live performance will be at the Miramar Theater November 28th at 8 p.m.
Here is more infomation on the show:
Hey alternative and new rock music lovers… check out ‘rock & roll [...]

Obama: Below 50 percent approval

Posted by: urbangeek08 on: November 20, 2009

You have to give our current president some credit. It is tough to step in durning a time of economic distress. I really feel that people are not giving Obama a fair chance to take the time that is needed to improve things in this country. Many people do not understand that the various issues [...]

In Love&War by Amerie

Posted by: urbangeek08 on: November 20, 2009

Hello my darlings,
Once again I am so sick and tired of albums having held back release dates finally Amerie’s new album is here and I had the chance to check it out:
My girl Amerie is back! And better than ever. Her new album In Love &War has taken quite a journey to be released. Since [...]

UrbanGeek Recommends…. Black Blood Brothers

Posted by: urbangeek08 on: November 19, 2009

I have a new rating system. I like to call it the geek system. The higher number of geeks the better it is .

Genre: Horror,romance,comedy,drama
Year:2004
Episodes: 12
Summary: During a fictional war called the Hong Kong Crusade, an Old Blood vampire, Jiro Mochizuki, a.k.a. the Silver Blade (銀刀, Gintō?), fought and defeated the Kowloon king and also [...]

Samsung announces new Android-powered Galaxy Spica (i5700)

Posted by: urbangeek08 on: November 16, 2009

Attention Battlestar Galactica Android OS fans, Samsung has just taken the wraps off its newest Android-powered smartphone, the Galaxy Spica. By the sound of that name, it appears the Cylons have taken control of Samsung’s mobile division.
The newest soldier in the ever-growing ‘droid army features a 800MHz processor (just like its Moment sibling) and is [...]

Black Friday

Posted by: urbangeek08 on: November 15, 2009

Disclaimer: These are not official ideas and statements that I am stating these are only predictions of the items and products I think will be popular this year.
Till the season when people lose their minds on crazy “sale” items. I am going to be staying in this black friday season.  People are already getting prepared [...]


 

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