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My tween found this creative use for an extra iPad stylus

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UChicago College Admissions, Indiana Jones Mystery Package

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What we know: The package contained an incredibly detailed replica of “University of Chicago Professor” Abner Ravenwood’s journal from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. It looks only sort of like this one, but almost exactly like this one, so much so that we thought it might have been the one [...]

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Storage Wars Sued By Its Star; Show Is Faked And Execs Were Confronted By Cast, Court Papers Charge

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“Reality TV” star is shocked — shocked — that his own show is faked.

Storage Wars Sued By Its Star; Show Is Faked And Execs Were Confronted By Cast, Court Papers Charge | Radar Online.

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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Welcome to My Rare and Antiquarian eBook Shop.

Face it—eBook sales are up, analog eBook sales are down. Pretty soon collectors are going to realize that normal people no longer share their bourgeois fascination with things like the bittersweet aroma of ink on paper, or the satisfying heft of a classic hardcover, or the fact that books don’t randomly turn off when you [...]

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Bad Doggy — practicing “Tomorrow” with a human Sandy

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Bad Doggy — practicing “Tomorrow” with a human Sandy – YouTube.

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“What irrational person would argue against your claim that hoe is a Gothic punk?”

Dictating student feedback, I said “Would a rational person argue against your claim that Poe is a Gothic poet?”

My Mac typed: “What irrational person would argue against your claim that hoe is a Gothic punk?”

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iTunes 11: It’s time for Apple’s horrible, bloated program to die.

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At the head of the team is a grizzled old engineer who’s been at Apple forever. He’s surly and crude, always making vulgar jokes about iPads. But the company can’t afford to get rid of him—he’s the only one who understands how to operate the furnaces in the iTunes boiler room. Then one morning the [...]

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Senior Tech #1: How To Master Texting

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It’s funny because it’s true.

Senior Tech #1: How To Master Texting

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“A Mushroom at Last… A Mushroom Forever”

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I asked my 10yo why she was moping.

“Because I don’t want to be a dancing mushroom,” she said, in a tone that added an unspoken “duh!”

Like most of her theater friends, she is on pins and needles, waiting for Stage Right to announce the cast list for next month’s production of Annie

“What [...]

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Office Hours in the Pool Hall

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My favorite story comes from the week I held my office hours in the Brother Gorch Pool Hall. Named for the Congregation of the Holy Cross monk who spent decades in charge of our student center and sometimes played pool with students, it was the perfect location for office hours the week [...]