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09.29.08

Man, When We Were Freshman in College, We Were SO Much Cooler! Fancy Tickling, Learning, Life | Comments
Amherst College surveyed its incoming freshman class and the demographic analysis of its Class of 2012 is pretty interesting. While, as mentioned in the title of this post, we were almost certainly much cooler than them when we were freshmen in college, it seems relatively likely that these kids have more iPhones than we did our first year of college...and iPhones are awesome. Anyway, here are some of the statistics from the article at Collision Detection: Percentage of first-year applicants who applied online in 2003: 33%. Percentage of applicants who ...

Tagged: College, Interesting, nerds, Statistics, technology
09.27.08

The Phillies Make My Year Once Again… Hot Shit, Life, Sporting | Comments
Congrats to the 2008 NL East Division Champs: the Philadelphia Phillies!!!

Tagged: Awesome, Baseball, fucking awesome, Phillies, Philly
09.27.08

Sarah Palin’s 1984 Miss Alaska Pageant Video, Swimsuit Competition Sideblog | Comments
Sarah Palin's 1984 Miss Alaska Pageant Video, Swimsuit Competition [via Waxy]

Tagged: Politics, sarah palin, swimsuit, video
09.24.08

New Kids on the Block Got a…Hit Sideblog | Comments
Fine, since I'm clearly the only one secure enough with my manhood to admit it, I'm just gonna lay it out there because it needs to be said: that new New Kids on the Block song is kind of really awesome. Ok, I said it. Isn't it???

Tagged: Hot, Music, new kids on the block, NKOTB, not sure what team i'm playing for, single
09.24.08

Former Amherst Professor on David Foster Wallace Learning, Life | Comments
The 139th online comment in response to a New York Times portrait of the late author was by a former teacher of his: I can't say how his death makes me feel: he may have had the words, but I don't. So here's a true fact to embellish his reputation (not that it needs much embellishment): He wrote two senior theses at Amherst. A creative thesis in English that was his first novel, "The Broom of the System," and a philosophy thesis on fatalism. Both were judged to be Summa Cum Laude theses. The opinion of those who looked at the philosophy ...

Tagged: author, crazy, david foster wallace, quotation, sad, teachers
09.23.08

Michael Phelps to Guest Star on Grey’s Anatomy! Fancy Tickling, Funny, Sporting, Videos | Comments
Rumor has it he had sex with the ENTIRE cast, INCLUDING the girl from "Old School" (p.s. click that link)... [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEfudV0Z_F8[/youtube]

Tagged: Awesome, Funny, grey's anatomy, michael phelps, olympics, TV, video, YouTube
09.23.08

5 People You’ve Never Heard Of Who Saved the World Sideblog | Comments
5 People You've Never Heard Of Who Saved the World

Tagged: history, Learning, lists, shitty post
09.21.08

Worst Middle School Name Ever? Fancy Tickling, Funny, Life, Pictures | Comments
At least they didn't name it after the Kidd-family's second born, Douchebag.

Tagged: Funny, Pictures, school
09.21.08

David Blaine’s latest stunt could ‘make him blind’ Sideblog | Comments
David Blaine's latest stunt could 'make him blind' - dumbass

Tagged: david blaine, dumbass, NYC
09.21.08

20 Most Incredible Desert Oases Sideblog | Comments
I can't believe these actually exist, and they're freaking awesome: The 20 Most Incredible Desert Oases

Tagged: Amazing, crazy, desert, lists, oasis
09.18.08

50 Greatest Charles Barkley Quotes Sideblog | Comments
50 Greatest Charles Barkley Quotes

Tagged: charles barkley, Funny, lists, NBA, Sports
09.18.08

Tokyo Architecture Sideblog | Comments
Tokyo Architecture

Tagged: architecture, Awesome, tokyo

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