This column was written Sunday night in just under two hours. It was submitted to the DN in the wee hours of Monday morning for use this week, although it’s my off week on the schedule. The week was filled, so the lil’ column sat in the corner. I asked the DN to run it [...]
A text message read out of context provides a great opportunity for humor. Just imagine a whole site of them! Yet another site from the Department of Why Didn’t We Think of That First? Texts from Last Night.com Also on Twitter.
Woot.com, the website that offers a single item for sale that changes daily, has boldy taken up the cause of marriage equality to…sell $59.99 MyVu Solo Plus Personal Media Viewers. Read the entire tounge-in-cheek ad at Woot.com (today only, because we can’t do this all week)
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
The head coach for University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s football program is no longer mad at the Royal Purple, the school’s student newspaper, for printing a column blasting a few athletes for their behavior at the gym. The decision to stop his temper tantrum comes just one day after banning the paper from direct access to the [...]
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Crazy shit is abundant on Twitter. (Speaking of which, you should be following us @bewilderedSoc.) Now it’s time to start calling people out for it. From the Department of Sites We Wish We’d Thought of: Behold Things You Should Not Twitter dot com.
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
No, really … like literally: The University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Tuesday suspended Sigma Chi fraternity after newly unsealed court documents detailed a series of alleged hazing incidents, including one in which a stripper allegedly used a vibrator to anally penetrate a fraternity pledge during an initiation party. C’mon guys … Couldn’t find a circus midget? [...]
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Here’s what happens when you elect someone who didn’t pay attention in fifth grade science class to the U.S. House of Representatives: That was Joe Barton of Texas, a Republican, asking the Energy Secretary how oil magically ended up in Alaska. Except, of course, anyone who learned about Pangea in elementary school, knows the answer [...]
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Glenn Beck is preparing a new fear-mongering-based comedy tour this summer, including a simulcast in our nations movies theaters. However, the promo shows that Glenn Beck may not be that funny, but he may not be quite as bat-shit crazy as we are led to believe… First off, give whoever thought of using the word [...]
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
This is pretty accurately depicts everything that’s wrong with the Facebook redesign. Applications sucked when they were first released and everyone had dozens upon dozens of them all over their profiles. Then Zuckerberg smiled upon us and banished the application garbage to separate tabs. Now with the most recent refresh, we are again inundated with [...]