Category: Of Random Interest

I just learned that Har­vard is launch­ing a porn mag­a­zine fea­tur­ing stu­dents down­load boon­dock saints the .

Har­vard stu­dents. Nudi­ty. One shud­ders.

Actu­al­ly, they’re prob­a­bly shud­der­ing them­selves. It gets cold in Boston.

Seri­ous­ly, I can’t help but won­der how long it is until some­one at Stan­ford tries to copy­cat Har­vard (con­sid­er our copy­cat mas­cot as evi­dence).

Once again for the record, Chi Alpha thinks porn is bad. The fact that Har­vard is now com­plic­it only makes it worse!

Stan­ford has been dom­i­nat­ing the world of hoops late­ly, but for some strange rea­son Duke is still ranked num­ber one. Sports Illus­trat­ed has a real­ly good piece explain­ing why we ought to be ranked first.

John Stos­sel did a report on 20/20 that makes for fas­ci­nat­ing read­ing, Lies, Myths, and Down­right Stu­pid­i­ty, in which he explodes the most com­mon media-fed rumors that mess up our lives and our soci­ety.

Some of the myths he hits: that there’s a rela­tion­ship between being cold and catch­ing a cold, that we have less free time than we used to (we have a lot more free time than our par­ents did or than we did grow­ing up), and the idea that mon­ey can buy hap­pi­ness.

It’s good read and will give you fod­der for late-night dorm con­ver­sa­tions.

From the realm of just plain gross: the BBC reports that sci­en­tists have found a way to make mice pro­duce mon­key sperm.

Yes, you read that cor­rect­ly.

*shud­der*

That’s just creepy on so many lev­els I don’t know where to begin.

I just stum­bled across a Chi Alpha blo­gring on Xan­ga. It’s pret­ty small now and every­one seems to be from one cam­pus (the one I min­is­tered at pre­vi­ous­ly), but it’s still cool.

If you’re on Xan­ga sign up!

On a more friv­o­lous note, there’s a new Strong­bad email with four video games at the end!

Pho­tos from the crab boil are now in the pho­to gallery.

We’ve got some pret­ty good shots this time, if I do say so myself.

By the way, you can call Nathaniel “Fred­dy” from now on.

Tolkien fans might be inter­est­ed in this news sto­ry about the com­plex sim­u­la­tion pro­gram that cre­at­ed the cli­mac­tic bat­tle scene in the Return of the King.

“For the first two years, the biggest prob­lem we had was sol­diers flee­ing the field of bat­tle,” Tay­lor said.

“We could not make their com­put­ers stu­pid enough to not run away.”

Now that’s arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence!

There are some new pho­tos in the Chi Alpha pho­to gallery.

Also, the soft­ware has been recent­ly updat­ed so there are a few new fea­tures in the gallery.

Feel free to play around!

The Boston Globe has a neat arti­cle that ref­er­ences the Boston area Chi Alphas:

“When I came to MIT, I was expect­ing it to be full of nerds — peo­ple who don’t real­ly put togeth­er sci­ence and reli­gion,” says Ben­jamin Brooks, a senior from Pater­son, New Jer­sey, who belongs to the MIT chap­ter of the evan­gel­i­cal group Chi Alpha. “I was real­ly sur­prised — and still am — by the vol­ume of Chris­t­ian fel­low­ship here.”

and lat­er The Boston Uni­ver­si­ty chap­ter of Chi Alpha holds reg­u­lar “The Gospel Accord­ing to The Simp­sons” gath­er­ings.

The arti­cle is called God on the Quad and talks about the evan­gel­i­cal pres­ence on the Boston cam­pus­es.