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Featuring some of the latest Twitter and Facebook comments about Tosh.0.

Dan Roper's professor is going to love the racism montage in next week's finale episode of Tosh.0!

Mashable reports that Harrisburg University of Science and Technology is banning all social media sites from its network for a week because the university wants "students to think about how much they’re using technology in their daily lives and what kind of impact it has."  Only email will be allowed.

Additionally, electricity is being cut off, landline phones will be shutdown and all students will be forced to start mining coal and the school is changing its name to Harrisburg University of Coal Mining and it's no longer a school, it's a labor camp.

Alright, that last part isn't true, but shouldn't a college of "Science and Technology" encourage students to use technology.  The dean of the Berklee College of Music wouldn't have students put away their instruments for a week so they could see what the world would be like without music.  A medical school would never have doctors in training let patients die so they could think about what the world would be like without medicine.

This whole things sounds a lot like some sort of filthy publicity stunt made by some third-rate university, which isn't what I'd expect from a prestigious institution such as…  um…  Harrisburg University.

Every week we see countless comments that have absolutely nothing to do with anything. Our favorite irrelevant comment this week came from Adam G in response to the ridin' dirty church sign.

Man, Adam G. If I measured irrelevance in more than week increments I would award you with the Irrelevant Comment of the Month. Because this nonsensical jumble of words is amazingly trivial.

Good luck with college.

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Why don't they make bouncy houses for adults?

After previously bashing far more reputable institutions like Boston University and the city of Sioux City, it would be irresponsible of me to let the University of Georgia slide with their appallingly lazy, pseudo-lipdub orientation video that has recently gone viral.  (Exactly what percentage of footage has to be lip-synched for one to declare a video a "lipdub?")

How hard is it to watch this video?  I'll watch anything to get gratuitous shots of southern co-eds and I still couldn't make it all the way to the end.

In fact, having seen this lipdub, I officially want to apologize to Sioux City and Boston University.  In retrospect, it seems like you guys did some decent work!

[via Today's Big Thing]

Featuring some of the latest Twitter and Facebook comments about Tosh.0.

Very interesting fact, Joshua.

I bet you'd also be interested to know that The Soup is a University of Washington grad.

And The King of Queens was "a student at, but did not graduate from," the State University of New York at Cortland.

And Wheel of Fortune attended Columbia College Chicago.

Or maybe none of those make sense, because they are all TV shows and TV shows can't go to college!

Bet you can't guess where the blog attended college…

I don't go to college because I am a sad old man.  (And one day you will be too!  Unless you are female.  In which case, send me a private message.)

But from what I've heard, one of our "key demos" is college students.  So you might find the video above amusing.  It's a college prank.  Ha!  Ha ha!

Oh man, I pulled so many pranks when I was in college!

Like one night, after heavy, heavy drinking, I urinated on a foosball table.  Then the next morning, the foosball table was roped off.  And when I asked why, they said some pipes above the table were leaking.

That weren't no pipes!  That was my urine!!

Ah, memories.

[via Today's Big Thing]

Geekologie reports that a student at Indiana University has become the country's only "magic major."

"The Great Jordini, used the individualized major program to create a magic major," Geekologie quotes.  "He capped off his degree program Tuesday with a stage show."

The stage show consisted of two acts.  First, Jordini was required to spend 30 minutes trying to seduce a woman.  There was an intermission.  Then, The Great Jordini attempted to get paid for his performance.

After failing at both tasks, it was determined he was prepared to live the life of a magician and was awarded his diploma.

But his biggest trick was making the reputation of Indiana University and the value of having a college education magically disappear.

Good work, The Great Jordini!

Seton Hill University, a "small Catholic liberal arts university of about 2,100 students in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh," has announced that starting in Fall 2010, all full time students will receive both a MacBook and an iPad.

If this seems like a desperate ploy for publicity and students, you're probably right.  Sounds like they've ripped a page from the divorced-dad-who's-run-out-of-options-to-get-his-child's-love playbook.  "What's that hot thing all the kids want?  An iPad.  Yeah, spend the weekend with me in my condo and we'll take a ride to the Best Buy and get you one of those."

Maybe Seton Hill should have spent some of that iPad money updating their logo.  The griffin looks like it was pulled out of a Hagar the Horrible strip.  Now that you're making all these crazy promises to prospective students, people are actually going to be seeing that thing for a change.

[via Mashable]

She was only on national television for a few glorious seconds, but today, the Boise State University Cowbell Girl is the Internet's darling.

First, people questioned her enthusiasm, as she grimaced her way through whatever song it is they're playing.  (Is that the Super Mario Bros. theme??)

Then, information came out that she is blind as revealed by a number of sources, which added a new level of compassion to the story, spawning many to say that we are all going to hell.

So she probably didn't realize the world was watching.  We crashed this girl's private moment of personal discontent.

But are we really going to hell?  Isn't there a moral here?  How every one of us is subject to the constantly prying eyes of the world at large in the global landscape of flash judgements and instant gratification?

Maybe sometimes we should put aside our desires to exploit people on the web.  Maybe sometimes we should step away from our computer and live life in the moment.

Sometimes we need less technology and MORE COWBELL!!

(Amen, brother.)

A number of blogs have featured the above video entitled "Worlds Greatest Golf Shot" [sic].

I realize these trick shot videos are a "thing" on college campuses right now, but, guys, really?

Once the ball goes through a tube or a gutter, it's no longer a "shot."  The tube just points the ball where to go.  I'd be more surprised if the ball didn't go in, because that would mean you didn't have the manual dexterity to point a tube in the right direction.  That's the point of a tube: To help something get where you want it to go.

Are these kids amazed when they turn on the faucet and water comes out?  Obviously, the efficiency of tubes excites them.

When taking a shower, do they go: "AH!  WATER IS BEING POURED OVER ME!  OH MY GOD!!  AH HA HA!!!!"

What these guys need is a tube to point them towards some ladies.