The Observer is back! Thank God, I was really digging the bottom of the Blog Barrel there for awhile. Top story: break-ins at College Park and a fire at Castle Point. I can’t believe the College Park building manager said that the robberies were “unusual”… Everybody knows that student apartments are prime targets over the winter break.
NDToday.com has finally unveiled their new design. Unfortunately there’s still not much going on on campus, but the polls are always entertaining.
Reason #1 I Wish I Didn’t Live in London Though: It’s now the most expensive place to live in Europe.
Reasons #125 and #126 I’m Glad I Live in England: John Ashcroft’s violent anti-choice stance and his hardline drug criminalization policy. Because I think people can make mistakes, and Ashcroft’s methods of “helping” them are, to my mind, the worst possible solutions.
Nice story on ESPN about Muffet’s recruiting efforts for the Irish. It also has a really weird picture of Riley and Siemon that kinda looks like Ruth is hitching up Kelley’s trunks for her.
I just found out that the Red Cross is now refusing to accept blood donations from anybody who’s lived in Western Europe (including the UK) since 1980. They’re worried you might carry mad cow disease. This affects a hell of a lot of us who studied abroad…
I just found out from Max’s site that I’m not allowed to donate blood! Apparently anybody who’s been to Western Europe in the last twenty years will be turned away over fears that they could carry mad cow disease. That sucks. The last time I tried to donate at school they turned me away because I’d had my ear pierced in the last year. And now this… *sniff* I’ll just have to keep my B-positive to myself.
I’m fascinated by Survivor, but unfortunately I just can’t get it on television here. This article on Survivor 2: The Australian Outback talks about the ecological impact the show had on the area of northern Queensland where it was filmed. I can’t wait til Snookums and I take our holiday Down Under so I can finally see some of the stuff I’ve been hearing so much about – goannas, dingos, monkey puzzle trees… Stubbies.
Still laughing… Salon’s InBox points to Things to Say When You’re Losing a Technical Argument. If your job is anything like mine, you’re gonna love these. My personal favorites:
1. Can you generate some USE CASES that would justify the change?
2. Jakob Nielsen wrote an interesting hit piece on that.
3. Yes, but we’re standardizing on XML.
4. I believe that’s the approach Windows NT is taking.
HA!
ESPN is taking a poll on whether ND should be #1 in the Women’s Basketball poll next week. We’re currently winning, 88.2% to 11.7%.