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...almost foolproof. Of course, you can't just pop it on somebody. You have to introduce it in a way that is relevant and makes sense, but almost everyone responds to it. Top tens are good. CDs on a desert island. Then you get into arguments about whether you can have whole catalogs of CDs or just one CD. Is it all of Beethoven, or just one string quartet? What happens is when you do a category like that, the discussion often deteriorates in a good way into actual substantive conversation. But it takes work to talk to a bore...
...Whether it's voyeurism, curiosity, collective boredom or a little bit of each, there's something strangely addictive about ChatRoulette. Launched in November, the site usually has more than 10,000 people logged on at any given time. You can spend hours on the site passing through an endless stream of faces and never encounter the same person twice. Using the site gets you into a rhythm, clicking and instantly passing judgment on a blur of people while they do the same to you. (See the top 10 iPhone apps...
This announcement should compel the Harvard community to look carefully at its own commitment to public service and assess whether it is living up to its stated values. Former Harvard president Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, once famously asked students of the College to “enter to grow in wisdom, depart to serve thy better thy country and thy kind.” Administrators, professors, students, and community affiliates alike should take this message to heart. To a significant extent, this is already happening. University Public Service Week was held last October, and President Drew Faust...
...It’s a good burger, whether you liked Jersey Shore or not,” said Theodore A. Wilson...
...that he had come at her with a baseball bat and that she had been defending herself. Her doctor testified that Kissel didn't show any signs of being physically attacked with a bat, but later said it was possible she was assaulted. Kissel side stepped the question of whether or not she had served her husband a drug-laced milk shake. As the local English daily the South China Morning Post noted at the time, few were surprised when the verdict came in guilty...