Bartender Scams
College students: Be careful when you go to a bar or club. You might be being scammed. Watch this for some pointers. [2007-10-23]
New York Times Finally Up To Date on Textbook Piracy
Textbook piracy, though not even closely as prevent as music and movies, has been around since PDFs were invented. The New York Times has recently discovered that it exists: AFTER scanning his textbooks and making them available to anyone to download free, a contributor at the file-sharing site PirateBay.org composed a colorful message for “all [...]
Randy Pausch Died Last Night
At 47 years of age, Randy Pausch, the famous Carnegie Mellon professor, has just died last night at 4am many months pasted his due date. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and has outliving all expectations. He was famous for his “Last Lecture” which we have previously written about here at College Being. His life [...]
Real Sex
Sex may not always be as glamorous and clean as Hollywood makes it out to be nor as energetic or dirty as the porn industry depicts. Here is the first semi-accurate depiction of sex outside of your roommate’s amateur footage he hides under his bed. Semi NSFW.
A little thing we all call News
The news. Is it a source of information, or just a means of massive mind manipulation? When should we listen and when should we click the off button? Does it truly do the function it is meant to do: inform, and allow for a democratic society, or is it just a mask behind a homogenous [...]