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Re:The Curse of Xanadu by kyochan on Sunday August 30, 2009 @10:11PM (#795265)
Why do projects name Xanadu always seems to mean some boondoggle?

Xanadu is a name of a mall in Jersey that was supposed to open in 2007 but got pushed back next summer. Even then, it might not even survive the recession.

I guess the lesson is never call your projects Xanadu or Duke Nukem Forever.

Re:The Curse of Xanadu by noaharc on Sunday August 30, 2009 @10:37PM (#795302)
Well Xanadu was a thing before the mall in Jersey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu

"It became fabled as a metaphor for opulence, most famously in the English Romantic Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan."