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...this story last week quoted the executive director of the Harvard University Native American Program: “It is inappropriate to have these mascots representing native people—they don’t.” The idea that a mascot should be an accurate representation is absurd. That would be the end of mascots. Sports is the domain of the generality and the cliché. UND is a stupid school with a stupid nickname. Why make more of its mascot than that...
...presented to the student who proves to us that the only limit to the amount of food you waste is the size of your tray. This guy can never quite seem to figure out what he wants to eat while in line, so he loads his tray with an absurd amount and variety of food figuring that he will likely want to eat some of it by the time he sits down. What a great strategy! Although he ends up throwing away 90 percent of his food, at least he has the foresight to put himself in a position where...
...wouldn’t be completely absurd to look for “Looking at Landscapes; Environmental Puzzles from Three Photographers,” at an art museum—the small, gray room that holds the exhibit’s 52 photographs could easily be part of one. But in order to catch the collection of works by Alex MacLean, Anne Whiston Spirn, and Camilo José Vergara, students have to walk past the Fogg and the Sackler and head to the Harvard Museum of Natural History instead. The reward for the journey? A new awareness of natural phonomena...
...Gates had been talking to reporters instead of preparing for his confirmation hearings next week to become Secretary of Defense, he would have found all this amusing, if not absurd. The man with the Kansas-flat voice and a weakness for hiking, hayrides and roller coasters would have got a kick out of saying that both sides are right--and that absolutely none of it matters...
...about the title’s gameplay, or even the plot.A more interesting, and often hilarious, reaction has come from a cadre of amateur remixers, whose alternate visions of the ad can be found on YouTube. They feature the original footage set to wildly different musical backgrounds, from the absurd (“Stayin’ Alive” and the “Ghostbusters” theme) to the oddly appropriate (Billy Joel’s “Pressure”).Still others praise the evocative pairing, and its departure from gaming conventions. The blog DailyTech hails...