After 228 consecutive shows that were wholly or mostly Monica, last year feels like a rip in the space-time continuum, a historical skid as inexplicable as the election of 1876 or the hairstyle you wore in 1982.

CNN: The year of living foolishly

The three-foot long parasite grows in the body for one year and feels like a hot iron hit the skin when it emerges.

WHITEHOUSE: Dream Big: Water

Why it took a full year for them to release something as relatively simple as dashboard navigation and search is unclear, and now in my estimation, Kinect feels like it caught up to where it should have been a year ago.

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"It feels like the birth of a new industry, " says John Musser, the 45-year-old veteran of Bell Labs and Electronic Arts who runs Programmableweb.com.

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"It feels like the birth of a new industry, " says John Musser, the 45-year-old veteran of Bell Labs and Electronic Arts (nasdaq: ERTS - news - people ) who runs Programmableweb.com.

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The father of a four-year-old girl who died when a concrete shed collapsed on top of her said he feels like "his heart has been ripped out".

BBC: Father of wall collapse girl feels 'heart's ripped out'