Get in fashion this new school year by buying some Threadless tees.

I really miss this. Now I only have this (and it’s ugly!).

Ever get that weird feeling where you call someone and as soon as they pick up they were like “Oh man, I was just about to call you!” (or vice versa)? Well, apparently, that scenario, dubbed telephone telepathy, can be scientifically proven. Ok, I wouldn’t immediately call it “scientific proof” based on only 63 people being tested, but the start of a larger test is there, and I think it’d be neat if it was proven with a focus group of tens of thousands of people.

Yelena showed me this monster laptop sleeve ($65) and I just can’t stop imagining how funny it’d be if I saw someone using this.

If I had all the money in the world, I would buy

• a 24″ widescreen flat panel LCD from Dell
• a Logitech Cordless Desktop LX 710 Laser or a Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop Elite
• a 500-watt Klipsch ProMedia Ultra 5.1 sound system
• a Canon EOS 5D (with a 24mm f/1.4L USM lens & a Canon Speedlite 580EX)
• a Leica Digilux 2 (THIS ONE I REALLY WANT)
• this Burton AK Gore-Tex 2L Jacket in Half-Life Print
• and the Burton Malolo board.

Hungrr seeks to inform people about the growing problem of people going hungry in America. Unfortunately, the way in which they go about informing folks is probably turning people away from their goal of getting people to donate to food charites. They have a large group of people dressed in orange jumpsuits who go out into public and just yell “hunger hunger hunger” as if it was some sort of chant. I don’t know, I just feel like these folks are doing it all for show and that the whole thing is just very ingenuine — especially with that ridiculously random one-eyed orange costume. Their videos really aren’t all that compelling either (how are you supposed to read the text and watch the video — mind you, two separate sides of a video — all at the same time?). The videos make the group look like total asses who are there to perform rather than to educate. Educate us about the situation, don’t just come yelling things in public with signs and costumes.
I’m all for their cause, but I’m not at all for their means of making it known. In the meantime, get a start over at America’s Second Harvest.

Amazon introduces the Plog (personal blog?) on their front page. More clutter to deal with now…

WHOO HOO! A new Postal Service song is out! Download it and listen. It’s good!!

Wow, these are really fantastic night shots of old airplanes in the desert.
From the site:

Most jet airliners reach the end of their operational lifetimes in about 25 years. These worn out aircraft are then parked on the desert flats and cannibalized to keep newer versions of the same model flying. Eventually, when the series is retired, the entire manufacturing run of planes makes its way to the boneyard where they are recycled. After all remaining parts of value are removed, the skeletal fuselage is dragged to the recycling area, systematically dismantled, shredded, and melted into raw aluminum ingots.

I really want to go here. It looks so peaceful and so much fun. :)
Check out the other photo categories at Lost America for more beatiful photos.

There’s an estimated 1,100 student suicides a year at colleges and universities?! I had no idea the number was so high.

Here’s a Flickr photoset on Pantone color matching. I personally think some of the matches are off though, considering the exactness that Pantone goes to make these swatch colors. Whatever though, it’s a nice little fun idea. [via]

I wish every school President would be so honest to the incoming freshmen. This is actually a pretty funny read. Below are a few quotes from the article.
This part is so true at times:

Laudable’s surroundings, by the way, will remind you of where you came from. That’s because your financial circumstances are pretty much the same as those of your classmates. More expensive schools have students from wealthier parents; less expensive schools draw students from families with fewer financial resources. More than half of the freshmen at selective colleges, public and private, come from the highest-earning quarter of households. Tell me the ZIP code and I’ll tell you what kind of college a high-school graduate most likely attends.

And ever since the report on over-paid presidents at prestigious New York City schools, this quote still holds ground:

As for the way Laudable spends its money, I can assure you that your professors aren’t overpaid. But I am. I take home more money at Laudable than anyone else (save some of the clinical physicians over at our hospital and several coaches). My pay is about five times greater than an average faculty member’s. That’s because I’m thought of as the chief executive of the university and chief executives get paid a lot in America.

But I know I’m not really a chief executive because I don’t hold that kind of executive power. The professors here are Laudable’s most important asset, and they, not I, are the ones who run the show (just ask Larry Summers). Laudable could save some money by paying me less.

Dane Cook gets sneezed on…and the people on YouTube who are watching the clip go crazy in the video comments because of the content of his joke. Geez, lay low. Anyway, the ending to the joke is great. :)

I’m off! Toodaloo!