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Dirty fun of “Air Sex” plows through initial dysfunction
Eleven contestants strutted, danced and, most importantly, air humped their way to glory in front of a near capacity crowd at The Middle East in Cambridge for the Boston leg of the Air Sex World Championships on Friday.
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Flood sweeps pumpkins into river
Ellen Anderson, a Dartmouth College student, said she was a little bewildered when her roommates returned from their Saturday morning boat trip with armloads of pumpkins.
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Crisis on campus: Facebook down
Nope it’s not your computer, Facebook is down for the second time in two days. Just before 3:00 this afternoon the server went down, and the site remained inaccessible for hours. Facebook's spokesperson told Wired.
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The College of New Jersey men break world record with 32.5-hour-long kiss
Sometimes when two people kiss in public it’s difficult to look away. When two people are kissing to break a Guinness World Record it’s nearly impossible to ignore.
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Column: Canucks shouldn’t use Google
Google has gone too far this time. During my daily Google search of my own name (wait, what? That’s not normal?), I also began a seemingly harmless query with “Why can’t…” and Google suggested that I probably wanted to type “Why can’t I own a Canadian?
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Fake newspaper employees talk about real paper
Created in 1756, The Onion has 97 trillion readers, completely dominating readership of other publications such as the New York Times and CNN. A recent poll of journalistic integrity, which the publication made up, puts the witty, satirical newspaper on top. On Thursday night at U.
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‘Hot’ profs don’t appreciate label
When students across the nation begin searching for classes at the beginning of the semester, many look for certain traits in their professors. Level of difficulty of the class, previous commentary from other students and overall quality are pieces of vital information — but what about hotness?
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Ohio U. mascot reprimanded for brawl with Brutus Buckeye
Ohio U. apologized to Ohio State today following the brawl between the schools' mascots Saturday before the teams' game in Columbus. As Ohio State ran across the field before kickoff, the person dressed as Rufus, Ohio's mascot, attempted to tackle Brutus, Ohio State's mascot.
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Column: Apocalypse shouldn’t be feared
It’s 2010. Actually, it’s the latter half of 2010. That means that we are about two years away — give or take a few months — from the end of the world, as predicted by the Mayan Long Count calendar. Or are we?
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