One of my favorite ways of wasting time, Hulu.com, is offering a multitude of free programs and movies available in high definition for a limited time. Plus, no commercial! What a great way to use that super-fast college Internet you have been wasting. Hulu is a site we have previously talked about owned by Universal […]
According to a recent story published in the New York Times, Ansett Australia, an Australian airline company, does not allow gay people on their flights: [Source: New York Times via Digg.com]
While I was in high school, one of my best friends had the shock of almost losing her brother due to some death-defying mountain climbing. Fortunately, her brother Travis lived, though he lost the ability to move his legs. Some recent research developments in China have the opportunity to help him walk again. After so […]
Textbook piracy, though not even closely as prevent as music and movies, has been around since PDFs were invented. The New York Times has recently discovered that it exists: AFTER scanning his textbooks and making them available to anyone to download free, a contributor at the file-sharing site PirateBay.org composed a colorful message for “all […]
At 47 years of age, Randy Pausch, the famous Carnegie Mellon professor, has just died last night at 4am many months pasted his due date. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and has outliving all expectations. He was famous for his “Last Lecture” which we have previously written about here at College Being. His life […]