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...Perhaps organizational involvement is the key. One relatively reliable indicator of someone’s celebrity status is the number of e-mail lists he appears on. On this count, again, I fail. The closest I ever came to celebrity-esque domination of the e-mail sphere was when I inadvertently stayed on the Speech and Debate mailing list all last year because I couldn’t figure out how to remove myself...
...Internet is not the real world. In a real job, a person does something useful. Giving away pictures of funny-looking cats would not count. In the real world, if someone approached a passerby on the street and offered to trade a red paperclip for his or her house, he would probably be ignored, or laughed at, or punched in the face. But, somehow, such encounters are possible on the Internet—and the Internet came alive at MIT this past Friday and Saturday at the first-ever conference for Internet phenomena: ROFLCon. ROFLCon’s mere existence...
...pitching proved decisive for the Crimson as the game reached its conclusion. After a scoreless sixth inning, Madick was faced with a game-clinching final pitch in the seventh—the game poised at 5-4, two BU runners on base, and the count at two strikes and three balls...
...intention to hold onto power. Reacting to the result, Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), which says its own calculations show its leader won more than 50%, angrily rejected the result. MDC secretary-general Tendai Biti claimed at a press conference in South Africa that the vote count had been rigged. "Morgan Tsvangirai is the President of the republic of Zimbabwe to the extent that he won the highest number of votes," he added. "Morgan Tsvangirai has to be declared the President of Zimbabwe...
...could raw milk ever be made safer to drink? Maybe. It would help to mandate that it meet the same bacteria-count standards as pasteurized milk, as Washington and Maine currently do. But even with regulations, consumers would still be putting a lot of trust in the farmer and the health of the cow. In the end, that may be too much work for a glass of milk...