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Everyone who plays golf is something of a closet geek. How else can you explain our (yes, I include myself in this group) obsession with the latest biometric-based designs or the newest high-tech components like polymers and alloys and all the other neat-sounding stuff that clubmakers pack into their new products...
...Oprah does not have the only Oprahesque reality show on TV today; more and more of them are overtly or covertly about mental makeovers. The Biggest Loser coaches weight loss. MTV's Made gives outcast kids self-confidence; the CW's Beauty and the Geek does the same for socially challenged nerds and academically challenged hotties. Supernanny gives tough love to out-of-control kids (and parents); A&E's Intervention, to addicts. On TLC's The Secret Life of a Soccer Mom, women who gave up careers to stay home go back to work for a week, then reconcile...
...more and more Web sites such as JuicyCampus.com, a gossip site akin to Harvard’s Gossip Geek, provide environments that facilitate unverified user-content (“C’mon. Give us the juice. Posts are totally, 100% anonymous,” reads the site), the need to be a discerning consumer of the Internet becomes more prominent. Wikipedia-wary professors warning against unaccountable, authorless sources preach this message time and time again. While the best advice to give a prospective Internet user is to take everything with a grain of salt, the reality of concrete injury...
While Gossip Geek continues to chronicle the lives of those they deem campus celebs at Harvard, JuicyCampus—a Web site boasting gossip blogs for 60 colleges, including Harvard—is making waves in New Haven...
...Gossip Geek, by contrast, acknowledges on its Web site that it is intended to be “satirical” in nature and will remove any posts if the subject is offended...