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(Not-So-) True Confessions of Mark Zuckerberg
Tweet Share on Facebook December 3, 2007 CommentDear Diary,
I just hate when things don't go my way. Sure, I may be worth $3 billion (thanks to founding Facebook) and Bill Gates is like, totally my BFF, but I feel as if everyone is out to get me. First these children sue me because they say I stole their idea, and now a Harvard alumni magazine wants to publish my previous diary entries! Just because I compared my neighbors to farm animals doesn't make me a horrible person. I am, as you know, rich.
Anyway, I have to go figure out how to invade more privacy and upset more of my users. TTYL!
Love, Mark
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Like Aerosmith Said: Pink, It's Her Old Obsession
Tweet Share on Facebook December 3, 2007 Comment (1)A former University of Iowa law professor wasn't too happy two years ago about the pink-clad visiting locker rooms in Kinnick Stadium. At the time, she grumbled mightily.
The athletic department followed up those protestations with an $86.8 million renovation that included a new and improved locker room: Instead of just pink walls, the facility now has pink metal lockers, carpeting, sinks, showers, and urinals. Sorry, not pink, "dusty rose."
Further incensed, the law professor is starting up her campaign once again, the Daily Iowan reports, and is planning to file a Title IX complaint against the school. "I want the locker room gone."
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What the Southern Drought Has Come To
Tweet Share on Facebook December 3, 2007 Comment (2)In their effort to convince students that "Cleanliness is not next to godliness," a handful of University of Georgia students could face sanction for chalking their doubly grimy slogan all over campus, the Red & Black reports. The drought in the South has prompted all parties to promote water conservation (for example, the mellow yellow football games), but this latest student effort to discourage excessive washing—around the same time a student died of bacterial meningitis—has been met with varying levels of disgust. Of course, a bout of heavy rainfall would solve everyone's problems.
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Fun With Liquid Nitrogen
Tweet Share on Facebook December 3, 2007 Comment (2)Channeling their inner Bill Nye, a group of curious University of Arkansas students blew up three bottles with liquid nitrogen in the middle of campus, the Arkansas Traveler reports. Though there were apparently no injuries or property damage, university police arrested one of the students for criminal use of a prohibited weapon, a class D felony.
Apparently, liquid nitrogen bombs have caused accidental injuries in the past—the explosion can "tear up anything within 6 to 8 feet," and if filled with gravel or sticks, can send shrapnel up to 25 feet away. Who knew? "I never would have done it if I thought it would end like this," the arrested student told the paper.
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Letting the Eagle Soar
Tweet Share on Facebook December 3, 2007 Comment (102)Former Attorney General John Ashcroft spoke at Cornell University yesterday amid disruptive protests, the Ithacan reports. According to one of the protesters, their goal was to oppose Ashcroft's policies, which he can't really do anything about anymore because he's now just a lobbyist. But I'm sure he still sings.
Corrected on 12/04/07: Ashcroft spoke at Cornell University, not Ithaca College as originally posted.
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Trail Mix
Tweet Share on Facebook December 3, 2007 Comment*Foam-sword-wielding warriors swarmed a University of Texas intersection to "metaphorically respond to some 'intense issues,' such as the privatization for corporate war profiteers," the Daily Texan writes. Hmm. Can't say I see the connection.
*There's no better way to celebrate Hanukkah than to set the world record in simultaneous dreidel spinning. Better luck next year, Indiana University Hillel Center!
*University of Maryland students worry that a university police recruitment video—which features officers in full-body gear at the 2005 riot after the men's basketball team beat Duke—casts the student body in a negative light, the Diamondback reports. Here's one way to preserve your reputation: Don't riot.
*The Daily Gamecock writes about an idea that could come only from a South Carolina student who was in the "right state of mind": the Bookah Bear, a "fully lovable two-hosed hookah that is entirely concealed within a teddy." Says one of its creators: "It's classy, the perfect gift for your everyday adult."