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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.

Students at Boston University made it the latest college to get in on the lip dub craze.

From the video's page:

"Over 120 students from different walks of life at Boston University came together to make a LipDub video.  [It] took just over a month to organize and shoot."

…and to think, just 3 short miles away, 120 Harvard students were actually getting an education.

The job market is tough enough as it is.  You best spend more time hitting the books, kids.  You realize MIT is right around the corner too?

[via The Daily What]

Whether you've earned your degree from Phoenix online college or Harvard, you've earned a BRAND NEW EPISODE of Tosh.0 TONIGHT at 10p/9c on Comedy Central!

This week's unclaimed domain:

TextuallyFrustrated.com

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You're anxiously awaiting a text message from a sweetheart. Your cell vibrates on your bedside table. "1 New Message". You get excited. You open the phone. It's a text from your mom. You are textually frustrated.

That clever little witticism in dot com form is still up for grabs. We're just as surprised as you are. It's an unclaimed domain name!

But that's not the only circumstance that TextuallyFrustrated.com could cover. Here are some ideas:

• A microblog featuring user-submitted passive-aggressive texts (a la TFLN).
• An overwhelming collection of downloadable fonts.
• A blog that posts vexing bible passages from sermons.
• A site rallying against expensive college textbooks.
• Or, just buy it and forward it to the Tosh.0 Blog!

According to Whois, last week's Halloween-themed domain went to Lu Lan from Shanghai! I don't think they even have Comedy Central in Shanghai!

Now, it's your turn. Get TextuallyFrustrated.com! If you don't know how to buy and domain name, here's how.

Now here's a creative way to clean out your refrigerator: Take out each item one by one and nuke the hell out of it in your microwave.

But if you'd rather just observe the disintegration of random products without having to take a Brillo pad to the inside of your office microwave, this website is right up your alley.

This only-mildly disguised Kraft Foods promo site offers one-click access to videos of 21 household items being microwaved to excess: a tomato, glue, a pineapple, soap, eggs…

My personal favorite: Christmas lights. Just in time for the holidays!

With it's flashy interface surrounded by varsity lettering and school colors, it's nice to see they're not pandering to college students and have finally begun catering to to women over 40. But don't let that turn you off! Microwaves are for everyone.

And kudos to Kraft for ripping off a popular YouTube channel and using it for corporate gain.  It's good to finally see someone profiting off viral videos.

[via GorillaMask]

The AP Stylebook, a book of nit-picky style and usage rules for writers that haunts journalists? dreams, might seem slightly anachronistic in the age of blogging and leetspeak.  But at least they've been trying to take some technological strides. For instance, they have a pretty comprehensive Twitter account.

But this kind of ironic innovation can?t go unmocked. That?s why someone cooked up Fake AP Stylebook, a Twitter account that will make your subjects and verbs disagree in hilarity.

Strangely, I?ve found that the rules of the Fake AP Stylebook appear to be "followed" by more of the web than the real AP — and not just that more people literally Twitter-follow the fake stylebook than the real stylebook — but bloggers and the like actually seem to adhere to the satirical musings of Fake AP.

For example, let?s start with this rule:

Use "student" to refer to college attendees, and "coed" to refer to really hot students.

Case in point, the web magazine that?s all about the word: COED Magazine. They are currently promoting such tasteful articles as ?Super Sexy Sweater Kittens? and ?Sexy Halloween Costume Cleavage Collection.? You wouldn't find these articles on the STUDENT Magazine website, would you?

I applaud thee for following the fake style guide.

[via ValleyWag]

It can be hard to communicate emotions through email. That's why we litter them with "lol," emoticons and nude pictures — to get that much closer to real conversation.

Well, that's just the opening (above) of this juicy ten-message email thread between a TA and a student. The rest is jam-packed with innuendo and outuendo. I'll help you see right through to the subtext, after the jump…

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Why are they laughing? This is funny to you and me because we're watching it on the internet. If this were actually your house, your futon and your window — you'd have to be 11 or 12 kegstands deep to laugh at this disaster.

I guess this starts off as a decent idea. What else are they going to do with a metal futon that their drunk friend peed all over? They're a dime a dozen on Craigslist. Your parents just get you a new one every school year anyway. Futons are worthless. Why not throw it out a window to a marvelous annihilation below? It just doesn't work as well when the highest point in your town is the second story of a frat house.

Right before launch, the cameraman says, "Make sure you push it, though, so it doesn't crack our air condit-" Very typical of a student to not have his priorities straight. That air conditioner won't do you any good with a gaping hole in the side of your house.