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Because we are a super narcissistic class.
I know everyone loves the darker recent iteration of Batman but I still really enjoy the campy Batman.
Alright, this commentary is really just an excuse to post this awesome thick photo.
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This is very controversial, I know, but I think I'm gonna get the Wii Fit then cancel gym membership. - Munira
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Technology Review illustrates with a photo gallery the evolution of computer chips from the first single transistor prototype in 1958 from Texas Instruments to the latest AMD chip which features approximately 758 million transistors.
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A new study by John Komlos analyzing data recently published by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey at the CDC suggests that on average black women in America are becoming shorter in height--a surprising development considering Americans have become taller with each successive generation. The study found the height differential more pronounced in the lower socioeconomic level. Komlos theorizes that obesity, a problem that particularly impacts African American women, might explain this decline in height.
Alan Rogol, a professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville and Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, explained it this way: Obesity causes an apparent acceleration of the onset of puberty in young people. In the case of young women, "the female hormone estrogen is what leads to closure of the ends of long bones, where you grow from," Rogol said. "If that is done more quickly on average, you are at risk for being . . . smaller as an adult."
I really hope that the next surgeon general in the Obama administration, Dr. Sanjay Gupta or whoever it may be, will be able to focus more attention on our country's obesity epidemic.
[College admissions officers from the Ivies to state schools discuss their inexact methodology that determines whether a student is admitted or rejected.
All in all, we’re less selective than some of the elite schools or the Ivy League. But there are still some factors out of an applicant’s hands. One night, I got food poisoning at a restaurant in Buffalo. The next day, I rejected all the Buffalo applications. I couldn’t stomach reading them.- Current admissions officer, state university in the Northeast
Read rest here.
Amazing visualization of the UK from the BBC's "Britain from Above." Air traffic:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEZcBeE33wc&fmt=18]
Ships passing through the English Channel:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z50XoqzOBLQ&fmt=18]
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I’m sure that I will always beA lonely number like root three
The three is all that’s good and right, Why must my three keep out of sight Beneath the vicious square root sign, I wish instead I were a nine
For nine could thwart this evil trick, with just some quick arithmetic
I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321 Such is my reality, a sad irrationality
When hark! What is this I see, Another square root of a three
As quietly co-waltzing by, Together now we multiply To form a number we prefer, Rejoicing as an integer
We break free from our mortal bonds With the wave of magic wands
Our square root signs become unglued Your love for me has been renewed
- Kumar from Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Steve Nash pitches Vitamin Water. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zcE1q4J7PQ&fmt=18]
It reminds me of this infamous video submitted by then Yale University student Aleksey Vayner to UBS as part of his job application.
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Vayner's video was parodied later by Michael Cera.
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I might have to pick up a copy of this issue.
The 2008 edition of Best of Bootie is out! This annual bootleg mixtape is always solid. Download it here.
I've been listening to the Hood's mixtape. And it's good. Not sure if you can handle the heat, but you can download it here.
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Vikings quarterback Tavaris Jackson tries to prevent his interception from being sprinted back for an Eagles touchdown during last weekend playoff game. Operative word here is tries, because instead he gets completely manhandled and body slammed by the blocker. It's a man's game, son! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4UvKrdafqY&fmt=18]
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Duh! Aquaman!
Definitely YOUR MOM.
Hey!The titans of the porn industry want to join in on the Federal bailout hand out train.
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis said Wednesday they will request that Congress allocate $5 billion for a bailout of the adult entertainment industry.[...]
"People are too depressed to be sexually active," Flynt said in the statement. "This is very unhealthy as a nation. Americans can do without cars and such but they cannot do without sex."
"With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind. It's time for congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America. The only way they can do this is by supporting the adult industry and doing it quickly."
Smells like a PR stunt, eh? Where the industry is not slipping is in the vibrating personal assistance department.