Sunday, December 2, 2007 by Kelly Sutton Hey everybody, hope your semesters/quarters are winding down well. If you're looking for some time to kill and to further educate yourself on the monster-that-is-also-known-as-Facebook, read on.
I'm Ready to Bail on Facebook: The New Face of Evil [from the digg frontpage]
Saturday, December 1, 2007 by HackCollege If you will be seated on a plane, flying home for the holidays, it might be a good idea to request a seat in the back. According to a recent study:
Real-world crash stats [...] suggest that the farther back you sit, the better your odds of survival. Passengers near the tail of a plane are about 40 percent more likely to survive a crash than those in the first few rows up front.
That's the conclusion of an exclusive Popular Mechanics study that examined every commercial jet crash in the United States, since 1971, that had both fatalities and survivors.
In 11 of the 20 crashes, rear passengers clearly fared better. Only five accidents favored those sitting forward. Three were tossups, with no particular pattern of survival. In one case, seat positions could not be determined. [Popular Mechanics, via LifeHack.org]
Get in the back, son!
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 by HackCollege If you're the type to break up with your significant other over email, text message, Facebook message, or AIM, BreakUpEmail can help.
Check a few reasons why you are breaking up, decide whether or not you want to remain friends, choose a typical "break up line" if you must, and submit. You'll receive a grammatically correct, multi-paragraph text ready for copy and paste.
To begin ending your relationship: See BreakUpEmail.com
Monday, November 26, 2007 by Kelly Sutton Everyone has by now noticed Facebook's pre-Thanksgiving addition to the News Feed. Now you'll find a little "thumbs up" and "X" next to each story in the feed. Click on these and your News Feed preference sliders will update themselves. Schweet.
Just thought you should know...
Sunday, November 25, 2007 by Kelly Sutton Our new friend Zeke has won the Adult Swim Dethklok and ...And You Will Known Us by the Trail of Dead contest! His suggestion for a post that won him the goods was:
How to stock a bar for $100.
I was looking for something online that would allow me to make the maximum variety and quality of cocktails for $100, but I found nothing of the sort. I’d like to see what you guys come up with.
See stay tuned for that post and a few of the others that we enjoyed. We hope our American readers had a great Thanksgiving holiday, wherever they spent it.
Friday, November 23, 2007 by Kelly Sutton Thanksgiving weekend got you bored? Are your home-friends not as cool as you remember? We're here to (try to) entertain you.
This week's topics are:
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 by HackCollege It's Thanksgiving Break, and many of you are at home with your parents. Are you studying for upcoming exams? Finishing papers? Finally buying the textbook and reading it? None of the above? If you're looking to procrastinate, why not give your parents a good start on your holiday wishlist. Ask for a digital voice recorder.
Think back on this semester. How many classes did you miss or skip? Of those, how many did you miss or skip because you were coughing, sneezing, hungover, lazy, or just too tired? Probably all of them. Here's an idea: Get a digital voice recorder. I had one during my undergraduate years, and it was a lifesaver.
If I was ever too tired or just with a head cold, I'd still trudge to class. Maybe I didn't take notes, but I still didn't miss anything. I would record the lecture, start to finish, and try to absorb as much as I could without pen and paper. This process was a lot less stressful, and I wouldn't have a guilty conscience for skipping yet another lecture class.
I used a tape recorder, but I would recommend one that records to .mp3 or .wma. This way, you can store them on your computer and even send your recordings to your friends.
I did a quick search on Amazon and came upon the Olympus DS-40 Digital Voice Recorder. It records to both .mp3 and .wma, has 512MB of internal Flash memory, runs on AAA batteries, has 5 folders for organization, isn't too ugly, and is priced under $150. But feel free to look around, yourself, for one that you like.
Monday, November 19, 2007 by HackCollege It's almost Thanksgiving. You're probably at home. Bored.
So are we. CollegeHumor is fantastic for this:
Watching this video made me think: HackCollege needs some cheerleaders. And a theme song. Anyone creative out there?