November 2011
1 post
“Altering our scholarship policy will be only as a last resort,” the president of the New York college said, but “it has to be one of the options.”
October 2011
21 posts
Death didn’t happen to Steve, he achieved it.
A gentleman spent nine hours stuck in a toddler/infant bucket swing at a Vallejo, California playground until firefighters rescued him. Apparently, the 21-year-old had bet $100 that he could fit into the swing. To do it, he had to lubricate his legs with liquid laundry soap. Once he got in though, he couldn’t get out and his pals bailed on him.
It wasn’t until a groundskeeper heard him...
Everybody Needs A Hobby of the Day: Guinness World Records has named 52-year-old Rolf Bucholz the Most Pierced Man in the world.
Bucholz, a computer expert from Germany, has pierced himself 453 times.
If you’re looking at this photo and wondering where the other 278 piercings are, they’re in his “genital area.”
[stuff.co.nz.]
Tagged: Everybody Needs A Hobby, guinness world records, Most...
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Whoa. Lululemon huh?
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Awwwwwre You Kidding Me With This of the Day: Redditor ferballz writes: “We adopted this puppy yesterday. In with his papers, I found this note from the foster family’s children.”
She later offered some additional context:
He was only with the foster family for 3 weeks. The wife said that out of the 40+ dogs that they have fostered, this is the only one that her husband begged her to keep....
Elinor Mills / CNET News: Bad Siri! She’ll let anyone use a locked iPhone 4S — The voice-activated feature on the new iPhone 4S will let anyone use the phone to send e-mails and text messages and make calls even if it is passcode locked, security firm Sophos revealed today and CNET has confirmed. — Try it.
A week ago the world went wild over CERN’s tentative claim that it could make neutrinos travel faster than light. Suddenly, intergalactic tourism and day trips to the real Jurassic Park were back on the menu, despite everything Einstein said. Now, however, a team of scientists at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands reckons it’s come up with a more plausible (and...
A plan that may cost less than demolition would make the Tappan Zee a suburban version of Manhattan’s High Line.
As evidenced by the overwhelming crowds during past iPhone and iPad launches, it’s clear that our lives revolve around mobile. That’s why we’re happy to announce that we’re giving away 50 GB of free storage to anyone who uses a Box Personal account on an iOS device. That’s right, it’s 50 GB in the cloud completely free, forever. Your 50 GB of storage isn’t just limited to your...
Mysterious Illness of the Day: A poorly treated skin condition has caused the face of a 26-year-old Vietnamese girl to wrinkle and wither, making her appear 50 years older.
Nguyen Thi Phuong says her hardships began three years ago when she suffered an allergic reaction to some seafood.
She developed an itchy rash that neither over-the-counter nor prescription medication were able to cure....
Since March, there have been 12 sexual attacks on women that police say are part of a pattern of groping by three suspects in Brooklyn neighborhoods.
South Korean Pop Star Joins Army of the Day: Rain, the South Korean pop star and actor, is joining the military.
The international sensation is heading to an army base in Uijeongbu, just north of Seoul. Like almost all South Korean men, Rain is expected to serve at least two years in the military.
Rain waved goodbye to hundreds of fans, saying: “Thank you for the 10 years of love.”
On a wet Wednesday evening in Seoul, six government employees gather at the office to prepare for a late-night patrol. The mission is as simple as it is counterintuitive: to find children who are studying after 10 p.m. And stop them.
Young Hispanic man: Yo, man, you got some bird shit or something on you. Big white man: Really? Shit, I always get crapped on. Young Hispanic man: Lemme help you out. (proceeds to scrape bird poo off his coat) Big white man, a few minutes later: You know what I love about Hispanic people, they care about family. White people have no sense of family! Young Hispanic man: Yeah, but that’s...
Optical Illusion of the Day: Step 1. Stare at the red dot. Step 2. Watch the blue circle disappear. Step 3. ????? Step 4. Magic!
[reddit.]
Tagged: Optical Illusion, Pale Red Dot
Justin Bieber and Jimmy Fallon during the taping of their “Someday” perfume ad parody. Photo: Courtesy of NBC
Soooo remember when Justin Bieber’s Someday perfume commercial came out and he was all Peter Pan-channeling, flying through the girl’s window, whispering unintelligible sweet nothings in her ear as she spritzed her neck with the dessert-like scent? And then...
Phytoplankton are tiny, plant-like organisms that live in the ocean and are, basically, at the very bottom of the food chain. But, sometimes, they get their revenge. When lots and lots and lots of phytoplankton get together, they can form what we call a “red tide,” a discoloration of the water at a particular point where the plankton have become densely concentrated. Some red tides...
Shuffling 110 of the Day: The Ohio University Marching 110 performance of LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” you knew was coming is now here.
[hyst.]
Tagged: lmfao, Marching 110, Ohio University, Party Rock Anthem
Crazyass Japanese Thing of the Day: Japanese Synchronized Gymnastics.
[bestofyt.]
Earlier: Japanese Synchronized Walking.
Tagged: Crazyass Japanese Thing, Japanese Synchronized Gym
For weeks now, people mobilized by all types of progressive organizations have banded together for the Occupy Wall Street protests. Bolstered and nourished by food, beverage, and bedding donations from outside sympathizers, the increasingly large group of people clogging the world’s most infamous economic center only seems to be growing angrier and more sure of their main point: that the...
Building students’ skills in science, technology, engineering, and math is a major national priority, but few Americans have a grasp on who’s doing it effectively. So for the first time ever, U.S. News & World Report has released a math- and science-specific high school ranking, picking 208 public and charter schools nationwide whose students perform well on AP tests in STEM...
September 2011
19 posts
Get ready for a new wave of bank fees. Bank of America will begin charging a $5 monthly fee at the beginning of next year for customers who make debit card purchases.
Whether you use your card for one purchase a month or 20, you will pay $5 per month starting in 2012. It doesn’t matter if you select “debit” or “credit” at the point of sale.
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The Politico reported these zingers from President Obama at California fundraiser on Sunday:
“Has anybody been watching the debates lately? You’ve got a governor whose state is on fire denying climate change,” Obama said to applause in San Jose, according to the pool. “It’s true. You’ve got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don’t have health care and booing a...
Bad Opinions. There are a lot of them.
It’s not enough to simply log out of Facebook: web tracking cookies persist until they’re explicitly deleted from your browser. (via @newtonmark)
Occupy Wall Street News Round Up of the Day: A week after the “occupation” of Wall Street began with a “Day of Rage,” the peaceful demonstration took a turn for the violent as tensions between police and protesters boiled over.
Between 80 and 100 members of the so-called “99 percent” were arrested for impeding traffic; some were charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. According to...
Dunkin’ donuts worker #1: I heard that Katie, who comes here every morning, is moving to Jersey. Dunkin’ donuts worker #2: What Katie? Dunkin’ donuts worker #1: The good-looking blonde, blue eyes, wears jeans most of the time, has twin boys. Dunkin’ donuts worker #2: I have no clue who you mean. Dunkin’ donuts worker #3: Whole-wheat bagel, toasted, with cream cheese....
Researchers have determined that while moderate optimism may be good for you, extreme optimism is not. And at times some pessimism is helpful.
An extraordinary tableau at the United Nations underscored that the United States may have to share, or even cede, its decades-long role as the architect of Middle East peacemaking.
Special elections last week were the latest evidence of the absence of voters from participatory democracy in New York City.
A NY Times foreign correspondent formerly stationed in Russia tells the story of placing his three kids into an unusual school in Moscow where all the instruction is done in Russian. My three children once were among the coddled offspring of Park Slope, Brooklyn. But when I became a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, my wife and I decided that we wanted to immerse them in life abroad....
This Is Interesting, You Should Watch It of the Day: Quick — how many continents are there? Wrong.
[cgpgrey.]
Tagged: CGP Grey, This Is Interesting
My friend Tiffany Shlain’s new documentary feature film, Connected, opens in select theaters starting this Friday. The film is a lovely and moving meditation on technologies of connection as told through a transformative year in Tiffany’s own life in which she she lost her father, remarkable author and true Renaissance man Leonard Shlain, to a brain tumor, and gained a daughter....
The Bean, a coffee shop in the East Village, is moving a block down First Avenue to compete with Starbucks.
Rollback from GRAIL s Rocket
Lesley Arfin
Dear Kid in High School,
Not that you really give a shit what I have to say, cuz kids in high school love not giving a shit, but I also know that you actually give a huge steaming pile of shit, so shut up your face and listen.
You’re allowed to care about stuff. That’s the first thing. Even if you think it’s stupid or weird, like polka music or “being obsessed with mimes.” One day...
Posted on September 5, 2011
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“Webster’s” means nothing. The word entered the public domain when the copyright lapsed on Noah Webster’s original dictionary in the 19th century. The name still conveys authority, though, so it’s become a marketing ploy among dictionary publishers, who display it even on books that have no connection to Webster’s original work. You can, too, if you like.
Because developers of luxury buildings must include affordable units to qualify for tax incentives, dozens of buildings are now home to strikingly diverse populations.
Pareidolia of the Day: 46-year-old Yvonne Darnell of Burgess Hill, West Sussex is photographed holding a baby carrot that she claims looks like, well, a baby.
“I couldn’t believe it,” she says of the misshapen taproot she pulled out of her own garden. “It’s so funny. I saw it and thought, ‘It looks like an alien baby’.”
Darnell has even gone so far as to give the little guy a name: Kevin....
August 2011
11 posts
My Brooklyn chronicles the
dramatic changes that have occurred in Brooklyn over the past ten years, and
shows how these changes are not natural, but fueled by public policy. The film
documents how an obsession with upscale environments driven by the the Wall
Street bubble is threatening the very economic, racial, and ethnic diversity
and neighborhood character that have historically drawn many...
As the winds died down and the storm passed through the Northeast, an extraordinary onslaught of flooding is still playing out as some rivers continue to rise in an already waterlogged region.
Surreal Sight of the Day: Another rare sight thanks to Hurricane Irene: Times Square mostly abandoned on a Saturday night after Mayor Bloomberg tells New Yorkers to stay inside.
Live shot here.
[@bradwalsh.]
Earlier: Grand Central Terminal, deserted.
Tagged: Hurricane Irene, nyc, Surreal Sight
“I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat.” — George Bernard Shaw
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On Pink Slipped at Forbes.com, Susannah Breslin writes about “how to get a job, and how to get hired, and why being unemployed is so hard.”
Today’s installment involves the gentleman playing guitar in the video Susannah shot, above. She encountered him by way of a flyer on the street in Chicago.
“Hello?” I yell up. I can see some guys sitting in the window. I...
At the heart of a debate is the question of what drove even some previously law-abiding Britons to steal.