No. 15 womens volleyball vs Oregon State
We’re just about 10 minutes away from the start of a crucial second matchup between Oregon and Oregon State at Mac Court. The No. 15 Ducks lost in a 5-set shocker in the first meeting between these two teams on Oct. 2. They are determined to get revenge tonight, particularly coming off a disappointing winless [...]
Facebook to keep profiles of deceased users
Just in time for Halloween- Facebook has decided to not only hold onto everything on their users’ profiles while they’re alive, but to guarantee that they keep it forever even afetr they’re dead, according to an article from the Associated Press. Apparently, all that is needed is an obituary or a news story about the [...]
Salute and farewell, Geocities, R.I.P.
Imagine if you had thousands of peoples personal information packets on any subject from the family pet to the biggest political events from ancient Egyptian or Roman times.
Dear computer industry…
It’s just bad engineering, the industry is so hell-bent at all times to produce the fastest card the most quickly, that there just isn’t the time to sit down and make it effecient or of a reasonable size. Chips and coolers are slapped on PCB along with as many power connectors as they deem necessary to make it seem “extreme” and off it goes to the consumer, bloated, uneducated and simple.
Say What Will You About Lariviere …
He knows a thing or two about writing to an audience. University president Richard Lariviere has a commentary piece in today’s Register-Guard, wherein he expounds on why the University, Eugene and the state of Oregon are his kind of place.
The sense of wonder I feel about Oregon and its flagship university is as potent now [...]
Mozilla Raindrop to simplify social networking
What if you could Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Gmail, Flickr, and read Blogs all in one feed from one website?
That’s what the makers of Raindrop, from Mozilla Labs- makers of Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird free software, aim to accomplish with their new beta software. To take all the social sites in your life and create [...]
Shocker: College Tuition Rising
Breaking the news that the rest of us already knew, the New York Times reported yesterday that college tuition is going through the roof.
The NYT found that four-year public colleges raised tuition by an average of 6.5 percent last year.
The Register-Guard ran a version that included numbers from the University (sorry, no link available):
At the [...]
Chip Kelly Interview with Yahoo
Here’s an interesting interview that Duck football coach Chip Kelly did with Yahoo! Sports this week. Kelly doesn’t do a lot of one-on-ones, so I was surprised to see it. But it really shouldn’t be too much of one because it seems like Oregon does cater to the national media a lot.
Some of the questions [...]
