My favorite new hobby: Liking a Facebook status that shouldn’t be liked. I mean, let’s be honest — there are people on your Facebook you barely know, but hate with every ounce of your being. If Chuck Klosterman were writing this post, they would be those people you have sex with once because you hate [...]

The deal: Add BK’s Facebook application and delete 10 of your friends from your Facebook account to receive a free Whopper from The King.
The result: The application notifies your friends that you deleted them. You eat your Whopper, end up gaining even more weight and lose more friends than just 10.
The real downside: It takes [...]

Let me Google that you for you, a new online service, lets your friends know how completely moronic they are when it comes to the Internet. For example, if your friends ask you what time the Northwestern game is on Saturday and you want to make them feel like a dumbass, go to this site [...]

The CAESAR course selection system at Northwestern is a piece of crap. Sure, it had an upgrade about a year ago. We now have shopping carts and stuff. Sounds fantastic. At any rate, here’s my list of CAESAR add-ons that would make my life so much easier.
1. Stop having the search function default to the [...]

Last night, at approximately 11:45 p.m. Central Standard Time, I was looking at my ever-open Gmail window and trying to find an email from a teacher. I was entering a search for emails from this particular professor when my account froze as if there were no internet connection. Seconds later, everything returned to normal.
I wrote [...]

If you were watching CNN last night, you might have noticed that Jessica Yellin was beamed into Wolf Blitzer’s studio all Star Wars-like. While nerds across the Internet are claiming that CNN’s hologram isn’t a true hologram, it’s still pretty damn close and still pretty kickass. Singer Will.i.am was also beamed into the CNN studio [...]

I have no words. Why is the dog sitting on the iPhone? Is he using the vibration function as a pleasurement device? Why is the dog talking? Does anyone speak Japanese? I knew I should have tried harder in school. My mom always told me that I wasn’t the quickest gazelle in the lion hunt. [...]

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By now, you’ve heard about touchscreen voting machines and how they are either switching votes before people’s eyes or not recording votes. While the problem is probably not as big as the internet would lead you to believe, it still seems like somewhat of a problem. [...]

I love music mash-ups. In fact, this past weekend I headed into Chicago with friends to see some of our favorite mash-up artists perform. While the concert made our heads spin, the actions were (mainly) voluntary. That said, there comes a point where mash-ups go too far. Like when the music is mashed-up with muscles [...]

Microsoft Surface, an interactive tabletop device, has already been featured in bars such as The Mirage in Las Vegas. At the Microsoft Surface table, you can order drinks, play music and even text–or “flirt”–with other tables around you.
Now, Microsoft is working on an experiment called SurfaceWare that can detect how full a glass is [...]

Internet voting is the American Dream. Er… at least that’s my dream. You would like to think that we could at least register online. McCain and Obama both have sites where you can start the process, but you are kindly asked to send stuff in via snail mail.
But for about 700 U.S. citizens abroad, [...]

Don’t cha just hate it when, after a long night of Jungle Book sex, you know that you probably should tell your partner about the herpes you contracted from that sex slave two years ago?
inSPOT, a website dedicated to letting your partners know via cute e-cards, makes it easy. Simply pick out an e-card–my [...]

Kanye’s first single, “Love Lockdown,” from his new album 808s and Heartbreak, seemed to stun some Kayne fans as the entire song was sung by Kanye with the aid of a technology called Auto-Tune. And according to writers at Rap-Up.com who attended an 808s and Heartbreak listening party held by Kayne, the entire album features [...]

The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X.

In April of 1973, the first private cell phone call was made by Martin Cooper during his time as general manager of Motorola. But 10 years later, the first commercial cell phone call made from Soldier Field by Ameritech executive Bobb Barnett marked the rise of the cellular industry and the creation [...]

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On January 25th, 1979, Robert Williams was quietly searching for a part at a Ford Motor Company factory in Michigan. When all of a sudden… WHAM! A robot, whose job was to look for parts in the factory, slapped him in the head with its arm of steel. Williams died [...]