What would the world look like without… Maya Angelou?…Horrible, because we would never know why the caged bird sings. (Nytimes, Hulu) Email apocalypse?…I don’t know, but can you please remove me from your listserv? (Gothamist, Bwog) A significant other?…Forever alone. (Buzzfeed, Tumblr) Stress?…404 Error Not Found.(Huffington Post, 404errorpages) Without Bwog, where would all the trolls […]

Justin Bieber can’t seem to do anything right. After the Anne Frank uproar, Twitter blows up, to which Bieber responds with a cartoon of himself and a shirtless girl. (LA Times) Susan Patton, of “find a husband” fame, gave a talk at Princeton, during which she said that “[college women] will become progressively more desperate every year they waits to […]

A massive explosion in a Texas fertilizer plant leaves an unknown number dead and many more injured. (CBS) A man found in connection with the ricin letters sent to the President was arrested yesterday. (Detroit) A look at a child who makes us never want to have children ever. Ever. (Yahoo) The world is pretty […]

Two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon yesterday killed three people and injured more than 100. (NYT) A 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the Iran-Pakistan border this morning. Hundreds are feared to have been killed. (Reuters) According to Columbia professor of brain science Eric Kandel, we can learn about our brains from art. […]

Justin Bieber hopes Anne Frank would have been a belieber. OMG GUISE HES BEING SO SELF-CENTERED EVERYTHING THAT JBIEBZ SAYS IS IMPORTANT (Sun-Times) Microsoft apparently is working on a smart watch. DIDNT APPLE SAY THEY WERE DOING THIS LIKE MONTHS AGO COME ON MICROSOFT GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER (Apple Insider) Drug tsar says financial crisis […]

Side effects of taking Bacchanal may include:  Headache, (Health) nausea, (USA Today) inexplicable weight loss, (Today) and doing reckless things with no recollection of the event. (Buzzfeed)  

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Relevant: Jay Z quotes Obama in his new song. (MSNBC) One way to stay relevant: Lindsay Lohan is almost sleeping with Charlie Sheen. (E! Online) When you are irrelevant: Google knows what to do with you. (BBC News) Already irrelevant: B movie star sues IMDB for publishing her real age. Forty two, for the record. Because one […]

Columbia makes the news for being pretty damn classy — yeah, we like opera and classic literature, it’s whatever. (WQXR) These algae-covered homes might hold the key to energy independence, but only if you can deal with the slightly-offensive color. (Yahoo) Your daily dose of creepy people: police finally arrest a man who has lived […]

German thieves have stolen 5 metric tons of Nutella. What exactly are they planning to do with all that chocolate-hazelnut goodness? Make 5 metric tons of delicious crepes? (Slate) It turns out that an intelligence agency in France is just like us; it accidentally calls huge amounts of attention to its embarrassing mistakes, too. Now […]

Everyone seems to think that Hillary Clinton has decided, “I’ll run for president, yolo.” (NY Daily News) Boston College has decided that free condoms aren’t OK. (NY Times) Decided that you’re a winner? Here’s some gifs and songs to help you do it. (Buzzfeed) And of course, Kim Jong-Un still doesn’t seem to calm the fuck down. (CNN) […]

What is, Barnard/CC featured on Jeopardy? (Twitter) Who is, Anderson Cooper’s childhood crush? (Huffington Post) What is, the greatest movie ever made? (Buzzfeed) Who is, the inventor of the Ferris Wheel? (Nytimes, Columbia) I’ll take Alex Trebek’s condescension towards incorrect answers for $500 via Wikimedia Commons  

  Remember 1993? Probably not, but step into any pay phone in New York and you can. (New Museum) Remember Debutante Hill? Unless you were born in 1958, probably not–but you can. This year Ig Publishing will “bring back the very best in young adult literature, from the classics of the 1930s and 1940s, to the thrillers and […]

Lululemon! Occasionally has embarrassing moments with see-through clothin (just like us that one time we misguidedly tried to do yoga)! (Bloomberg) Shakespeare! He’s ending up on the streets of New York (just like we will a year after we graduate)! (NY Times) Princesses! They get subpoenaed (just like us…? I mean, hey, it could happen). […]

Yay: DSpar writes another provoking article about women who may want to have it all. (Daily Beast) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reported some pretty hot profits this past year. We want some pictures. (LA Times) Damn: Buckwild’s beloved Shain Gandee died of carbon monoxide poisoning and the world now mourns his distinctive accent. (USA Today) Malcolm Smith, one of […]