HIGHBROW/LOWBROW: Best of the Internet This Week

Melinda Lim  —  May 1, 2012

Melinda Lim '12 with a few links to get you through the week and into Slope Day.

HIGHBROW/LOWBROW: Best of the Internet This Week

Melinda Lim  —  Apr 17, 2012

Melinda Lim '12 with a few more time wasters to get you through your last stretch of prelims.

HIGHBROW/LOWBROW: Best of the Internet This Week

Melinda Lim  —  Apr 3, 2012

Cary Huang created an interactive website that demonstrates the scale of the universe. It's frightening to see how large a Japanese spider crab is. And a dodo bird.

BIG RED AMBITION: #31. Enjoy Ithaca's Two Months of Warm Weather

Melinda Lim  —  Mar 28, 2012

Spending a summer at Cornell is included in the 161 Things Every Cornellian Should Do because, what the author really meant to say was: #31.  Enjoy Ithaca’s two months of warm weather – take a break!  Relax.

HIGHBROW/LOWBROW: Tuesday, March 13

Melinda Lim  —  Mar 13, 2012

Watch this video.  Fantasize about Spring Break. Reflect on how young you are.  Isn't that great?

BIG RED AMBITION: #8. Streak across the Arts Quad, #123. Try to order pizza from a Blue Light phone

Melinda Lim  —  Mar 7, 2012

The thought of running across the Arts Quad naked did not occur to me until mid-November last semester.  It was about forty degrees, uncanny weather for Ithaca, and subzero temperatures seemed imminent for the “spring” semester. So I figured, “Fuck it, tonight will be My Night to streak across the Arts Quad.”  Plus, it was going to freeze that weekend.

HIGH BROW/LOW BROW: Tuesday, Feb. 28

Melinda Lim  —  Feb 28, 2012

Our weekly assortment of time-wasting links, running the gamut from intelligent procrastination fare to ... well, condom jokes.

High Brow:

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An Easier CS Curriculum Isn’t a Better CS Curriculum

Derek Chiang  —  Apr 30, 2013

 

Introductory courses should be about separating talented students from those won't be able to succeed in the field, an idea the computer science department has recently shied away from. 

The Road Not Taken

Susie Forbath  —  Apr 25, 2013

 GPS systems have made getting from point A to point B easy. But as they've become ubiquitous, we've also grown depedent on them.

How OSS Will Get You a Job and Make You a Better Person (and Programmer)

Parker Moore  —  Apr 24, 2013

 Juniors hoping to secure jobs in the software industry should look to open-source software as a way to learn practical knowledge about software development from peers and to meet developers who have a passion for great software.

iPhone 5: Teleportation from the App [Third] World to the App [Super] Store

Morgan Beller  —  Apr 23, 2013

 

Did you finally get rid of your BlackBerry and buy an iPhone? Here are 6 app to get you caught up on what you've been missing.

New York vs. Silicon Valley: A Battle of Two Mindsets

Ali Hamed  —  Apr 22, 2013

 For the New York City tech scene to succeed, the tech community must create an identity separate from that of their peers in Silicon Valley.