Before you head to any of the 20 busiest airports in America, make sure you’ve scoped out your best dining options. (CNN) Google’s current Privacy Director is stepping down. Her successor has a tough job ahead of him. (Forbes) You thought some of the pranks your friends pulled were good? The NYPD suspect that the […]

Google has announced multiple new features from its many services today. Gmail announced Gmail blue, a revolutionary new interface for Google’s e-mail service. YouTube has decided that they have had enough submissions to their long submission contest, and will shut down for 10 years to select a winner. Google Maps has added a treasure map to […]

Bwoglines takes the form of an acrostic, dedicated to the avian marshmallows that will stick to the intestinal walls of many today:  Program for the 2013 Egg Roll. Lots of Eggtivities that will be broadcast live. (Whitehouse.gov) Everything and anything to do in New York this spring. (Gothamist) Epic “fail” and other verbs as nouns. (Nytimes) […]

Something alarming happened to the Internet this week, but Bwog didn’t notice. (NY Times) It’s a good thing, because the Internet is fucking cool. Spend too much time watching YouTube videos, though, and you could end up addicted to email or to high fashion leather clothes. (Spectator, GQ) After four years and $14 million, Formspring is […]

Two days of debate reveals a Supreme Court uncomfortable with making broad moves towards marriage equality. (Wall Street Journal) Are you as ridiculously excited as we are for Game of Thrones to come back? That was a trick question because OBVIOUSLY OF COURSE YOU ARE. If you’ve ever wondered where you would fit in the […]

If you dial a toll-free number from any payphone in Manhattan, you can hear a history of the neighborhood in 1993, courtesy of The New Museum. (CBS) Supreme Court Justices will hear arguments on the meaning of marriage today, as they come to their decision about whether California’s Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage is […]

At Columbia, we read books in class and play games in our dorms. In Armenian public schools, they play games in class. (Al Jazeera) Here, events against gay marriage prompt protests supporting it. In France, a bill legalizing gay marriage has caused opposing rallies against it. (NYTimes) Now that My Chemical Romance (and Bwog’s years of teen […]

Whether you spent the last week inebriated or sitting in your own filth, watching entire seasons of TV shows, you probably missed some newsworthy happenings. Luckily, Bwog is back with a roundup to distract you from the work you were supposed to do over break keep you informed. J. school professor and author of “A […]

Google announced Wednesday that it will be retiring Google Reader, sending the Internet into an immediate frenzy. Time to choose a new favorite RSS Reader. (New York Times) A West Harlem baby who survived his mother’s eight-story jump Wednesday afternoon is now in stable condition. The baby’s mother, 45, was a Columbia Law School grad. […]

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who will go by the name of Francis, was elected yesterday as the 266th Pope. (NYT) Spunky teenaged detectives rejoice! A Veronica Mars movie has officially been confirmed. Dreams really DO come true! (E!) It’s been widely confirmed: it’s not possible to hate Jennifer Lawrence. As if we didn’t already know that. […]

Lonesome George was the world’s last Pinta Island tortoise; he died last year, and now he’s with us in New York to be embalmed. Weird, we thought 9 months was kinda too late. (France 24) After a new papal conclave began yesterday, the Vatican also finally revealed the recipes for the smoke used to announce […]

A New York judge has overturned Bloomberg’s ban on big sodas, calling it “arbitrary and capricious”. (NPR) Want to escape from midterms? Take a peek at the many faces of Iran.(Atlantic) Apparently our abilities to remember the past and to plan the future are closely related. And some of us are much better than others. (WSJ) […]

Tiger Woods won his first World Golf Championship since 2009. (ESPN) Harvard searched the administrative email accounts of its resident deans. (Boston) Karzai doesn’t want to be BFFs with us. (LA Times) Ancient humans should have asked their doctors if Lipitor was right for them. (Washington Post) In the latest dip on Bieber’s roller-coaster week, […]

Bwog has a strange feeling that we’ve been here before, as if we’ve done this all before… A break through in the fight against HIV/AIDS! (US News and World Report) We’ve caught bin Laden(‘s son-in-law)! (New York Times) North Korea is actually completely insane! (NBC)       A time warp via Shutterstock

Beasts: Twenty-four year old Dianne Hanson was killed Wednesday by a 550 pound lion at a private California zoo. (CBS News) Bans: If Microsoft wins its lawsuit in Germany, Google Maps and other Google apps could face a ban come June. (CNet) The European Union proposed this week a  “ban on all forms of pornography […]