Tag: NEWYEARSEVE

As we're sure you know, tomorrow is New Year's Eve: a night when people from all over gather together to celebrate the completion of one revolution of the Earth around the Sun starting at an arbitrary point in space as determined by the Gregorian calendar. People celebrate in various ways, but here in the U.S. we do it by dropping a crystal "ball" (it's really a geodesic sphere made up of ...

This New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square -- like everything else these days -- is going green. The "ball" has had all its bulbs replaced with highly efficient LEDs, and will use 20-percent less power than last year's. Additionally, through a partnership with Duracell, the giant halogen bulb lit '2009' sign will get a chunk of its power from people. Visitors to the Charmin-sponsored ...

We don't want to be downers, but... When you're out tying one on tonight, it'll be easy to forget those out there who can't be with their friends and family on this ultimate party night. But we'd like to encourage everyone out there to show a little love and support for the men and women in uniform serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. The nonprofit, nonpartisan, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of ...