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...summer prior to freshman year, students anxious to stand out among their illustrious peers zero in on a way to differentiate themselves: shopping. From Bed, Bath and Beyond to thrift shops, Crate and Barrel to Urban Outfitters, pre-frosh scour through dozens of packages of extra-long twin sheets...
...that would have got its participants arrested not long ago. Then there were the commercials, whose content included a flatulent horse, a fight between grandparents, and enough spots for impotence medications to raise the Titanic. (The raciest ad I found in my old copy of Playboy was for satin bed sheets and pillowcases, "as used in the Imperial and Bridal Suites of the Conrad Hilton.") And lest you think there's something special about football that encourages vulgarity, USA Today last week had a front-page story on the troubles that colleges are having with cursing at basketball games. University...
...have searched the closet, because he left us a fire safety slip alerting us to the violation,” said Barlow. “It was kind of a shock. When I lived in Old Leverett last year, we just put the microwave on someone’s bed and threw a sheet over it. It looked like a silhouetted microwave, yet it wasn’t confiscated...
...good, AskMen.com is a cheeky, sometimes raunchy website that gives men tips on everything from the coolest new cars to how to bed a woman in no time flat. Dating tips from the site's Doc Love range from "Remember guys: players aren't all bad" to "Beauty fades, but attitude lasts forever." There are pieces on how to shine your shoes and how to pick the best Scotch whiskey. Each week the site spotlights a model, an actress and a female singer. AskMen is aimed at men, but any woman who wants insight into the male psyche (and refuses...
Have you gone wireless? Should you? I haven't, despite my moment of digital embarrassment. Do I really need to look up something on the Internet Movie Database from my bed? Here's an even simpler question, worth addressing in this first column: What is technology? A handy definition goes like this: if something breaks or crashes, it's technology; if you don't notice it, it's no longer technology. Consider the car. Cars were probably a new technology until the 1950s, when they became reliable enough not to fall apart at high speeds. Microsoft Windows is clearly technology...