UW-Madison Crime Map - Website that pulls the incident reports from MPD and plots them on Google Maps.

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Yourmometer - Operating Systems - I love this comic. This particular strip is from our Operating Systems class.

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John Wiley: The new 'pointy-headed intellectual' - John Wiley has really been throwing punches on his way out. Maybe he'll get more done now that he doesn't have to worry about his job.

"That's why the pointy-headed intellectuals who boast or value ideologically perfect voting records are so dangerous. They have stopped thinking ... They are wrecking the country, and they are wrecking Wisconsin."

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A Century of Wisconsin Olympians - The University of Wisconsin has a long history of sending athletes to represent the United States in the Olympic Games.

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Sobering up: Behind Madison's harder line on downtown booze - Some comments of note on the controversial Cap Times article:

"A simple and easy reduction of many alcohol related problems could be realized by eliminating the ridiculous and entirely arbitrary bar time."

"While drinkers are out getting into bar fights ... the pot smoker is at home in their living room looking for their other shoe. Policy implications?"

"For students, there is almost nothing to do downtown that does not involve drinking ... UW square (with movie theaters) closed ... Union South will close soon with the bowling alley ... music venues are not cheap and so it's drink, drink, drink"

"I own many student rental houses- they are basically underground bars without any regulation. The less liquor lic. you give out, the more underground bars you will have."

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63 Bus Shelters to be added to UW Campus - They'll be branded with the UW logo to help add some much-needed continuity to campus.

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Best Naming Scheme for a Group of Computers? - One person replied:

"The University of Wisconsin CS Dept. used cheeses. Never seemed to have a problem with running out, although they named two machines kraft-slices and velveeta, and the lawyers moved in and made them change."

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Ogg 1, UW 0 -

"Apparently, and this is just hearsay, but there may have been a few issues with large pieces of debris falling and doing property damage (Read: Huge freaking chunks of concrete crushing something)."

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New Union South Building Project Blog - This is a great idea. Transparency is always good. Hopefully I can finally attend a meeting without there being a conflict, but this will keep me up to speed.

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2008 UW-Madison Campus Elite Tournament - A lot more exciting than the NCAA Basketball Tournament. I'm cheering for Eli.

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gives UW-Madison $1.3 Million for influenza research

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Lost and Found: UW Grade Distributions -

"Hint hint ASM, why don't you make this more visible, as opposed to taking ten minutes of searching through UW websites? ... You don't need to pass a non-binding resolution in support of this. You don't need to botch an election."

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"What's wrong with our Badgers? Stop beating your girlfriends and stealing stuff. How about not losing to Iowa at home, instead?"

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A Promise Not Forgotten - A beautifully-made student documentary about the Abe Lincoln statue on Bascom Hill that I saw at the Spring 2007 IFVC Show. Answering the simple question, "What is he doing here?" It's really good, and you should watch it. [Part 2]

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UW football: Badgers land elite receiver - "He has reported a 3.1 core grade-point average and a score of 19 on the ACT". Ouch. (via The Critical Badger)

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UW-Madison stands up to RIAA - "These settlement letters are an attempt to short circuit the legal process to rely on universities to be their legal agent... we are not the legal agent for the recording agency, nor do we aspire to (be)."

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Your life without Seg Fees - For all those who believe we shouldn't have them at UW.

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Badger Herald: In Gmail we Trust - Why should WiscMail switch to Google? "We're fairly certain DoIT could use some extra time to fix the Associated Students of Madison's online voting system or improve usability of the enrollment monstrosity."

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Schedulizer - Website for select universities to help you pick your schedule. Pick what classes you want, specify when you don't want class, and *click*... possible class schedules. Still took me an hour to make a schedule though...

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UW-Madison can't create a simple online voting system - The department of information technology here needs some work.

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