A new Google Glass app, Winky, allows you to take photos just by winking. (Tom’s Hardware) Popes hang out with “four consecrated women.” Apparently they will live next to each other in the Vatican, bumping into each other “on walks.” (USA Today) Facebook develops a feature called “Trusted Contacts,” which allows your friends to help you remember your […]

Think those bright colors are funny, do ya? Think that music is somethin’ to smile about? Well wipe that smirk off your face goddammit because driving an ice-cream truck is no joke. Those guys will mess you up. (Yahoo) A couple of days ago, rapper Danny Brown got a little… erm… closer to his fans […]

Hey seniors: don’t graduate without crossing this off your bucket lists–one of Spec’s favorite hobbies! (Spectator, The Blue and White) If you see this frankenfish in Central Park, you should kill it before it eats your babies homework. (DEC, NY Mag) Obama’s to-do list: close Guantánamo Bay. “Why are we doing this?” (NY Times) Spectator’s advice […]

NBA player Jason Collins became the first openly gay male athlete in a major US sport yesterday. (Sports Illustrated) Some terrier owners in NYC are reviving the sport of hunting by having their dogs chase down rats in alleys. Tally-ho! (WSJ) Worried about your messed-up, only-two-hour-naps-as-needed sleep schedule? Don’t be. It’s perfectly natural, according to […]

Danny Brown apparently would give up cheese, even at his concerts (AllHipHop) Pyongyang’s lights are heating up, unlike the rest of North Korea. (ABC News) Chris Brown’s father thinks his son’s relationship with Rihanna might end badly. Really, what gave it away? (NY Daily News) The core is getting hotter—this time it’s the real thing. (BBC […]

Canada to conduct study using MDMA to treat patients with PTSD. Bwog’s reaction: OMFG! (Vice) Last night President Obama must have been on some serious shit. Either that or Daniel Day Lewis is even better than we thought. (The Guardian) Bwog is now officially ten times more terrified for its mandatory drug test. (Gawker)     […]

Blue Ivy is growing up and starting to look like her mom—whut, not fair. (Usweekly, Twitter) Apparently cheese patterned fabric exists. Whut. (Buzzfeed, Kraftbrands) A gang member was running a kids party business.  Renting ponies from gangasters, whut. (Gawker, Youtube). A Missouri lawmaker wants to ban seersucker suits. Whut—wait just kidding, this actually makes sense. […]

The core of the earth is fucking hot. (BBC) Einstein was proven right, again. (Science World Report) A NASA rover draws a dick on the surface of Mars.(Dvice) Saturn will be easily visible when you’re high on a roof stargazing this weekend. (Space.com) Not the phone via Shutterstock

The Rock isn’t going to let surgery get him down (or prevent him from looking totally ridiculous). (Yahoo) Just in time for Earth Week! New York has expanded its recycling program, so stop throwing your goddamn plastic bottles down the trash chute. (Wall Street Journal) In true testament to how awesome people can be sometimes, […]

Bieber’s capuchin monkey, Mally, though still stuck in better hands with the Munich Animal Protection League, might go to a zoo soon. (Entertainment News) France became the 14th nation to approve same-sex marriage, and this little girl is adorable! (NY Times) Party with Petraeus in NYC beginning next August, as he’s been named visiting professor at CUNY’s […]

  Earth Day is here! (Google) But it doesn’t sound like there’s much to celebrate about. China is getting yet another kind of avian flu. (The Huffington Post) The cinnamon challenge apparently isn’t safe anymore. (Chicago Tribune) Reese Witherspoon was arrested. (USA Today)   So stay tuned for Columbia’s Earth Week events—you can learn how to help […]

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. […]