Internet Findings

In January, Hannah bought me a book for my birthday called Whoogles: Can a dog make a woman pregnant? ...And hundreds of other searches that make you ask "Who would Google that?" The book provides screenshots of the dropdown bar of most Googled things as you type words in, and I got quite a few laughs out of reading it--along with the commentary on what appears in that image.

Therefore, when I noticed some funny "Whoogles" on my own, I had to take a screenshot and share them. I have a bad habit of writing notes to my friends while in classes where you can use laptops. A student in one of my courses said something fairly irrelevant, and I began to type WHY DO WE CARE. Here's the Whoogles I found and some commentary:

WHY

• That many people REALLY ask why the sky is blue and the ocean is salty?
• Carrots look orange because they ARE orange.
• People (eh hem...women) answer their own questions here. Why do men cheat...why men cheat. Good job figuring that one out.
• If you must Google why you're so tired, why don't you go sleep instead...?

WHY DO WE CARE

• Egypt seems to be relevant due to current events, understandable.
• But some of these things really concern me about America: why that many people presumably don't care about obesity...?
• The cotton gin and gross domestic product....interesting!
• Whoever types that about celebrities: thank you.
• I hope no English characters see this...because I feel like every high school student is curious as to the relevance of characters in literature

Look forward to future whoogles!

Current Events

No offense to Northwestern friends, but you guys have been in the news with way too many negative stories lately. See here. Mizzou's J-School wins here.

Site seeks to forge casual connections at U of C: This Chicago Tribune story is about a new website created by a University of Chicago student called UChicagoHookups. Essentially, it's a Facebook or social network posting site that "connects people looking for a no-strings attached hookup," solely at the University of Chicago. It plans to open up the site to other schools in the future...but what does this say about our society? All this shows is a negative change and diminishing of our own values--morality, our bodies and the role of other people and friendships. I know some might say things like this about dating sites, but this just takes it to a whole new level and is completely unacceptable.