Beer Pong Without Beer: Even More Boring Than Baseball Without Beer

Wii Ware is releasing a video-game version of every college student’s favorite party game sport: Beer pong. Watch the exciting video trailer below, which features a bunch of twenty-somethings and one old man doing a really repetitive action over and over again. And then not drinking.

An End to Ringtones in Class

How many times has it happened to me? I’d be in class, learning about Platonic ideals or centrifugal force when all of a sudden, from my backpack, comes a MIDI version of the Clarissa Explains it All theme song. And while I scramble through my things looking for that damn phone, everyone in class is […]

PLOrking It Up

If you think the Roomba’s a technological marvel, get this: The Princeton Laptop Orchestra, or PLOrk, is an ensemble of “computer-based musical meta-instruments.” Recently, eight student members performed in Carnegie Hall - and the orchestra won a genius grant.
A PLOrk rehearsal, below:

(Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education)

Thank You, but Our Politics are in Another Castle

Students at CSU, Chico were treated to interactive art recently. Senior Ryan Fitzpatrick unveiled his exhibit, “EEPROMpaganda,” which featured hacked NES games with a political message. “Super Mario Brothers,” for instance, was modded into “Super Democracy Brothers: The Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism,” where George Bush and Dick Cheney jump over oil barrels and turbaned […]

Because You Don’t Have Time to Clean Your Desk. There’s Drinking to Do.

I haven’t used a broom once since I got my Roomba. It’s just too convenient (and adorable) to let the little sucker run around my floor, happily beeping away as it picks up my shed hair and and skin flakes. But as much of a technophile (and as lazy) as I am, I’ve still […]

Techno-file: None the Web-Wiser

If you ask the average 18-year-old college freshman what RSS means, do you think he’ll know? No way, says a sociologist who studied the technological fluency of college freshmen in an interview with The Chronicle’s Wired Campus blog. According to the sociologist, other things students are having trouble grasping include: using the BCC function in […]

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The FCC hears net neutrality debate at Stanford

It takes a lot to get the five overlords of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) out of their lair in Washington, D.C., where they presumably sit around all day waiting for a CSI detective to say something naughty. But last Thursday, they made it all the way […]

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Case Western students try to bring bar codes back in a big way
Scan and go: Is it really that simple? Twelve Case Western Reserve University engineering students have teamed up with a company called Mobile Discovery to test a new campus information system based on technology you’ve probably seen in such advanced places as […]

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Facebook may be ready to settle old college dispute in court
Be careful who you collaborate with. This is one lesson Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has had to learn the hard way, after three former Harvard classmates (and founders of rival social-networking site Connect U) sued him in federal court, claiming that Zuckerberg stole their […]

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