April 2009
204 posts
WatchMaking fun of the UN is just too easy.
Mashup: Harvard vs. Hipster Runoff →
The economy is shit, ya’ll
Hope u got ur summer jobs lined up
Hope ur traveling to some exotic land on Harvard’s tab
Hope u get 2 experience “immersion” in a “meaningful” culture
Hope ur not a senior this year
songpong:
The Get Up Kids - Mass Pike (mp3)
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Swine Flu is God's way of punishing the Internet...
(via alexblagg)
"Riggins will treat you like shit and fuck your... →
britticisms:
Oh yes, oh yes.
We had a great discussion going the other weekend about the sex appeal of the FNL characters… conclusion: the guys are comparatively better than the girls. Julie Taylor’s probably the most appealing female, but she’s also, what, 16 on the show? Tyra is definitely hook up material, and Lyla has her moments, but mostly she just needs to get the...
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savage inequalities live on →
(via kathychoi)
Tumblr-dilemma: What do you do when you like a post about an unpleasant topic (i.e. this one)? Is a “like” appropriate?
What about when someone writes something personal and mildly depressing? Sometimes I want to “like” the post, as sort of a “pat on the back, i’m with you” statement. But I’m afraid it will come off as...
Crimes committed by Ferris Bueller during his Day... →
(via mollybierman)
Example: Odometer fraud (tampering): 49 U.S.C. § 32703(2)
Sampling of Rejection Letters From Colleges and... →
kathychoi:
kthompson:
Duke’s letter noted as “The Most Gracious”
“I know that you will find an institution at which you will be happy; I know, too, that the school you choose will benefit from you presence…”
Harvard won “Kindest” - WTF is the difference between kindest and most gracious?!
Just proving that Harvard isn’t 100% douchebag 100% of the time!
GiantURL.com →
steller:
haha via metafilter
I’m now going to refer to my tumblr as...
AlterNet: Why Being Smart Won't Get You Laid →
kathychoi:
swampgirlrunamok:
mollybierman:
“So whether you went (or should have gone) to the likes of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Swarthmore, Amherst, Dartmouth, Brown, Oxford, Cambridge, Berkeley, Penn, Caltech, Duke, read on”
Ah, and thus the less-achievement oriented shall inherit the earth.
Basically sums up the social awkwardness that pervades the...
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right BA Select -... →
In light of the recent attention the konami code has been getting, I thought it might be worth pointing out that Dogfish Head brewed a delicious beer for the Extreme Beef Fest named after the epic cheat code.
eWorld Web Browser Splash Screen →
stevenf:
Yow.
Wow… Brings me back to the days of perpetual free trials of AOL/Prodigy/eWorld/Compuserve using my Performa 460’s zippy 2400 bps modem.
(sidenote: Prodigy is the #1 ISP in Mexico!)
“In a stunning result, the winner of the third annual TIME 100 poll, and new...”
– Moot wins Time’s World’s Most Influential Person…
But product of Precision Hacking?
Can’t believe that skinny kid that I saw in class last semester made it to the big leagues. Good for him.
(via kathychoi)
moot made it to the big leagues with his panel at ROFLCon! (or maybe when 4chan...
A List of Internetting Pet Peeves
shutupinternet:
When someone types Google.com into the URL bar in Firefox or Safari to get to Google when it’s right fucking there, built into the browser!
When someone types Google into the Google search box that’s built into Firefox or Safari to get to Google
When someone types full URLs into the Google search box
When Safari doesn’t know words that I type all of the time even though I’m...
songpong:
Lucky Boys Confusion - City Lights...
“Earlier, I tried to get a hold of the latest specs for the PSD file format. To...”
– xee comments — is it worse than docx?
(via gruber)
Why Are People Smuggling Detergent into Spokane? →
(via the skeptical hypochondriac)
"Sex at Harvard" Panel Liveblog
lenachen:
Zac and I are currently crashing the “Sex at Harvard” Panel being held for Prefrosh Weekend. We surmised before showing up that if the event is in any way representative of sex on campus, it will be cancelled. Here is the liveblog.
7:20pm- Moderator says that 42 percent of Harvard students have had zero sexual partners in the past year (according to the National College Health...
i've been waiting for this
pablog:
i have been frequently dining at au bon pain for roughly six years now, in various locations, most often in manhattan and cambridge. every single time, i stare at and consider the little sign informing me that if i don’t get a receipt, my purchase is free. tonight, it finally happened: i didn’t get a receipt.
and i chose not to call them on it.
your move, karma.
This is totally the...
A History of "Modern Rock" →
marco:
An overview of recent mini-eras.
One-Album Wonders
Key bands: Bush, Live, Third Eye Blind, Candlebox, Soul Asylum
Era of dominance: 1994-1996
Defining hit: Live, “Lightning Crashes”
Vestigial reminder in a recent hit: Gavin Rossdale, “Love Remains The Same”
These are the bands that briefly joined the above described A-list, landing four or five huge hits off of one...
