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Facebook a hip college hit: BoingBoinger Xeni Jardin in the LA Times (Pouty-mouth poses for narcoleptic dudes):

YOU COULD describe Facebook.com as a digital yearbook, or the Internet equivalent of Greek T-shirts on frat brothers.

But most dead-tree yearbooks don't have 3.6 million members or party construction systems. Real-world sororities don't have names such as "Alpha Mega Pimpin," "The Divine Innocence of Jessica Simpson" or "I Just Tried to Ford the River and My … Oxen Died," in homage to the 1980s video game "Oregon Trail."

Facebook does. And it conquered college America instantly.

Like its paper predecessors, the site provides students with tools to stay in touch, proclaim school pride and scrawl in-jokes next to head shots. Pouty-mouth glamour puss is the favored female photo pose. Male portraits often capture narcoleptic undergrads mid-kegger, adorned with live animals, football-foam headgear — or other narcoleptic undergrads....

By the end of September, she notes, Facebook will infiltrate 2,000 "institutions. "

Hawks and Doves share candle-light vigil in Crawford: Brainshrub, blogging at Camp Casey:

I just took part in a beautiful ceremony. The conservatives on the other side of the ditch joined us in a memorial vigil for the fallen solders in Iraq. As a peace-offering, they donated a 20-foot pole with two flags on it: The American and a "Fallen Soldiers" flags. (The "Fallen Soldiers" banner has a white background with a rifle planted in the ground and a helmet over the stock.)

We prayed together, lit candles and sang patriotic songs. There wasn't a dry eye in Camp Casey, it was wonderful. At the end of the ceremony, as the flags and pole where returned to the pro-Bush side, we shouted: "Thank you!, We love you!, You are good Americans!"

For the record, it was the conservative side who who volunteered to donate the flags and pole when they heard we were having a memorial vigil. In my opinion, the reason they did this was that they recognized that we love America, and the soldiers, just as much as they do.

If Cindy's protest has started a dialog between us, it was worth the effort.

Maharishi gives up on Britain, withholds advanced TM techniques: Guardian (U.K.) reports,

You can do it in peace-loving nations such as Ireland and Holland. And, despite its record in Vietnam and Iraq, you can still do it in the United States. But try meditating for a more enlightened Britain and you could find yourself accused of feeding "the destroyer of the world."

Nearly 40 years after he first turned the Beatles on to transcendental meditation at his Indian ashram - sparking an upsurge of interest in his philosophy across the world - the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has ordered his followers to stop teaching his advanced meditation and levitation techniques in Britain....

The Contrarian of a Generation, Revisited: NYT's John Pareles on Dylan, again. How many stories can we read about a movie and soundtrack we haven't seen or heard yet? (And won't till Sept. 20 and 26, respectively.)

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