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Garfield the cat doesn’t actually speak, so what would Garfield the comic look like if he just wasn’t there? Apparently it would look like Jon is a mental patient.

by Zach 2 months ago | Link »

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A very cool new scooter design from the MIT Media Lab Smart Cities Group.

by Zach 5 months ago | Link »

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The ROFLCon preliminary guest list is up. They’re trying to get every famous internet meme or celebrity to go to Harvard in April for a conference. Must attend!

by Zach 5 months ago | Link »

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In case you actually decided to try Dwarf Fortress: The best how-to guide ever on how to play.

by Brian 6 months ago | Link »

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Time Thursday Jun 14 2007 11:08pm

Permalink for '' Worst Commercial Ever

Author by Brian Tags under , Comments with 14 comments

While watching the Cavs lose to the Spurs, I was bludgeoned in the head by the worst commercial I’ve ever seen. I don’t care that Aaron Ruell from Napoleon Dynamite directed the damn thing. I pretty much sat on the couch, mouth agape over the fact that the commercial had indeed, not ended, and […]

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Time Monday Jun 11 2007 9:25am

Permalink for '' Cooking + Engineering = Crazy Delicious

Author by Guest Tags under , Comments with 1 comment

Our guest author is Kat Kim, who previously wrote about horrific subletting experiences. She’s also a recent graduate from Olin and writes, “I have an inexplicable love of analog circuits, which is why I will be working as an Analog Applications Engineer for Texas Instruments.” She’s written about something we all hold near and […]

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Time Monday Jun 4 2007 2:05pm

Permalink for '' BetaBites and More

Author by Brian Tags under , , , , Comments with 0 comments

One of the ways we’re redesigning the site is revamping BetaBites. Long time readers will know that BetaBites were a weekly installment of one link and description from each author. It’s sort of like MeFi without the 100+ posts per day. For me, it was usually a random site out of the many that […]

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Time Wednesday Feb 1 2006 11:31am

Permalink for '' Seriously, what happened to TaB?

Author by Zach Tags under Comments with 2 comments

Many people mistakenly think it is gone, but TaB surprisingly still exists. Introduced in the 1960s as the very first diet soda from the Coca-Cola company, TaB has gone through a number of changes as various ingredients in it were found to be carcinogenic. In fact, at one point TaB was so […]

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