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Tim McGraw Explores Dangers of Texting and Driving in Powerful 'Highway Don't Care' Video With Taylor Swift, Keith Urban

Amy Sciarretto — Mon, 06 May 2013 21:49:29 +0000

Tim McGraw‘s ‘Highway Don’t Care’ video is like a mini-movie, which isn’t surprising, since the singer has had plenty of big screen experience as an actor in full-length films. The clip acts as somewhat of a PSA to warn of the dangers of texting and driving. But it’s not that simple. The video features McGraw [...]

Conan O'Brien Offers a Senior's Guide to Texting

Emerald Catron — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:35:26 +0000

Thanks to Team Coco for giving this educational guide to texting for seniors to the world. But you might not want to let your grandparents see it. Unless you want them to have constant, instant access to making you feel bad in that special grandparent way, that is. It starts simple enough, with a reminder that te

Boston Teen Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Texting and Driving

Mike Adams — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:23:29 +0000

A Boston, Massachusetts teen has been sentenced to two years in prison after being found guilty of causing a fatal car crash due to texting and driving. Eighteen-year-old Aaron Deveau was convicted of motor vehicle homicide by texting in an incident where his vehicle crossed the center line and crashed head on into 55-year-old David [...]

Walking and Texting and Bears, OH MY! [VIDEO]

Aaron Galloway — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:16:17 +0000

A black bear has been showing up in a neighborhood outside L.A. for a month, and yesterday morning authorities finally caught it. But not before it gave one resident the scare of his LIFE. It happened in La Crescenta, about 10 miles north of L.A. The guy heard helicopters, went outside to see what was going [...]

New Sleep Disorder – Sleep Texting

Bethany Lee — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:00:14 +0000

Let's hope they don't text their boss!

Sexting, Retweet and Jeggings Among New Words Added to Dictionary

Shauna Wright — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:08:01 +0000

The ‘Concise Oxford English Dictionary,’ celebrating its 100th birthday this year, has added 400 new entries to the English language. The freshman class of words that are now officially, well, words include “sexting,” “retweet,” “mankini,” “noob,” “jeggings,” and “woot.” In a blog post, Angus Stevenson from the Oxford University Press said, “Sadly, the new edition [...]

Is Texting A New Language?

Dave Diamond — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:09:34 +0000

OMG! I’m LMBO! For those of us who learned to type before this whole texting craze began, the new terminology can be a bit daunting. Is LOL Laughing Out Loud? Or is it Lots Of Love? Well, that one sometimes depends upon the context to decipher. But one thing is for sure, texting is changing [...]