Lil' Wayne's gets a million dollar birthday present | The Sun |Showbiz|Music (1)
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WHATEVER happened to the trusty tenner in a card and a pint of lager for your birthday?In the rap game you get a suitcase of cash, or it just ain’t worth bothering.LIL WAYNE must be a fussy lad to buy for. His mentor BIRDMAN, who he also calls his old man, presented the US rapper with a million dollars in cash at his birthday bash in Florida on Tuesday.I guess there is little else to ...
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Davis S said:
Check out the photo-- I see a big stack of Euros in there
An Inside Look at Ivy League Fraternity Pledging: Columbia Phi Kappa Alpha Edition (1)
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Last night, twenty well-dressed “giants” gathered outside of Butler Library on College Walk to show their commitment to Phi Kappa Alpha by engaging in a laundry list of group-bonding activities. Orchestrating the group was a PKA brother, who commanded the pledges to respond at his every whim. According to the Bwog, the men were given four tasks by their master over the course of their excursion into the neighborhood surrounding Columbia: 1. Yell that they ...
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College OTR straight lifted this story from Bwog
The Freelancers Are Free (1)
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The good news is that the freelance American journalists who went missing in Lebanon earlier this month have been found... in a Syrian jail. Yesterday, just a day after the US Embassy in Lebanon announced that Talyor Luck and Holli Chmela had disappeared sometime after leaving Beirut on October 1st for the northern city of Tripoli, the Syrian government revealed that they had arrested the two of them sneaking into the country without a visa ...
Horrible Cologne Sends Reporters Body Parts In The Mail [Publicity Stunts] (1)
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AXE Body Spray, the cologne of choice for rapists and lonely teens, scandalized the entire nation of India last month when it started running its ads there showing a man made of chocolate who walks around being eaten by women. It was all to promote their chocolate scent, to which I hope never to be exposed. Here in America, where reporters are more jaded, the company had to take more drastic measures to get attention: ...
@wyntonmarsalis great show at Penn State. I loved every minute. (1)
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@wyntonmarsalis great show at Penn State. I loved every minute.
Seth's Blog | The plight (and the pox) of the undecided (13)
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After Tuesday's debate, one study of undecided voters showed that 35% of them considered the outcome of the debate a tie. A tie? I can imagine believing that Obama won. I can concede that some people thought McCain won. But a tie? How could a rational person call it a tie? Of course, they didn't really mean it was a tie. Just like the prospects who don't buy your stuff but don't say no aren't ...
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Obama is booking a thirty-minute ad on all the national networks, a week before the election. How much must that cost? I wonder how he's going to fill the time: maybe he could do some deals on tee-shirts and baseball caps.It actually sounds like a good, albeit expensive way to help some voters over the hump in that last week. There will be lots of voters who don't want to vote for McCain but aren't ...
Human Vs. Zombie Tag A Growing Trend On College Campuses, Having Sex Declining - Geekologie (4)
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Apparently Human Vs. Zombie Tag (HvZ) is a growing trend on college campuses. An HvZ game typically involves hundreds of students and runs 24 hours a day for days on end; dwindling numbers of humans try to fend off and outlast growing legions of zombies. The rules are fundamentally simple: Zombie tags human, human becomes a zombie. Unlike movie zombies, with shambling walks and undead makeup, zombies in the game just wear headbands to distinguish ...
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HvZ is going on here right now
Wi-Fi, more important than beer? (1)
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Computer World reports:"College students seems to think so. Nearly 75% of the students who took part in a recent poll said Wi-Fi access on their college campuses helps them get better grades.In fact, college students like Wi-Fi so much that 48% said they would give up beer before giving up Wi-Fi, according to the survey, which was conducted by Wakefield Research for the Wi-Fi Alliance."Not sure about the strength of this assessment given the survey ...
Honey I Left It On The Toast » Yanko Design (1)
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Nothing gets your morning going like a cup of joe and a piece of toast slathered in your favorite spread. Of course, it can also be the time of day when things are hectic to start. Kids running around, people in and out, everyone trying to remind everyone else about the super important soccer meet after school. Next time, put it on toast.This toaster by Sasha Tseng incorporates a little message board where one can ...
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I giggled when I saw this-- a true giggle.
Why Not Try Dubai? (23)
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Dubai is in the midst of a huge boom. "Somewhere between 15 to 25 percent of the 125,000 construction cranes currently operating in the world today are located in Dubai," Slate says. It has shopping malls and lively nightlife for your Western enjoyment—the New York Times called it a 2008 party destination. Foreign universities like Michigan State, American University in Dubai, and Harvard have set up branches there. There's even a Time Out Dubai!
I guess everyone uses gmail (1)
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Given the popularity of yesterday's post on gmail's new "mail goggles", you may want to check out makeusof.com's "5 Gmail Lab Features Everyone Should Try". I like the "Forgotten Attachment Detector", which "prompts you if you mention attaching a file in your email, but forgot to do so." Maybe I am the only person that ever has that problem.Also, Maxium PC's 6 Ways to "hack" gmail write-up offers some interesting tips, including how to figure ...
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I use this sometimes, it's nice
Theft with help from craigslist (10)
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A man dressed as a road maintenance worker robbed an armored car in Washington State. As part of his getaway plan, he hired some people via Seattle craigslist to also dress up as road maintenance workers and mill around where the armored car was located. "I came across the ad that was for a prevailing wage job for $28.50 an hour," one of the unwitting decoys, named Mike, said to the NBC station. As it ...
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Wow. Man, that's just classic.
The 105-Year-Old Virgin [No Sex Tales] (2)
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Clara Meadmore, who will turn 105 on Saturday, is Britain's oldest virgin — and no, she isn't a nun, she just decided she never wanted to get married or have sex. Meadmore says she was more concerned with supporting herself and working than getting into romantic relationships. Instead of making doe-eyes with boys, Meadmore has spent her young and older years reading, gardening, cooking, and listening to Radio 4's Woman's Hour. [Daily Mail]
Silver (perhaps), Jewish (maybe), and happy hard-core - 80 Hours/mp3s (1)
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The Nashville, Tenn., outfit Silver Jews come to Iowa City tonight to play what its MySpace describes as "alternative-indie-happy hard-core" music at the Picador, 330 E. Washington St.
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new feature: odd quotes from newspaper of the big ten
UI receives B- in environmental sustainabiity (1)
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Making the green grade, the University receives a B-. According to a recent press release, the Sustainable Endowments Institute issued a College Sustainability Report Card, including an independent evaluation of campus sustainability policies. The goal of the report is to encourage sustainability as a priority in colleges.
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I wrote a story on this for The Collegian. Then I quit. They aren't going to run the story.
LOL: At left, a screen grab from a Today ... [Parenting] (1)
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LOL: At left, a screen grab from a Today Show segment for the most clueless and unintuitive of American parents. Click to enlarge.
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Filed under: Beta Beat, Graphic Design In a QuickTime screencast, Adobe's Russell Brown demonstrates content-aware scaling, a feature of Photoshop CS4, due to be released this month. A lower-resolution YouTube demo from Lynda.com is available here, if you don't want to download a huge QuickTime movie. The content is different, but you'll get the idea. Adobe licensed an algorithm that senses "dead" areas in photos, and resizes the image to avoid squashing or stretching every ...Shared by ChristopherA (19) Davis S (47) Huiwen (22) Krazy (523) Marcin (33) matthew (26) Michael (20) Michael (33) Stewtopia (9)Contribute comment
