WHICH IS THE BEST COLLEGE?
DEPENDS ON WHETHER THE RANKING IS FOR SHOW OR FOR DOUGH

What’s the best college?

Depends.

Depends on whether the ranking is being done by US News or by the people who are actually doing the hiring in the real world. The two lists are very different.

WSJ College Rankings Based on Survey of Employers

Wall Street Journal, Penn State Tops Recruiter Rankings:

State universities have become the favorite of companies recruiting new hires because their big student populations and focus on teaching practical skills gives the companies more bang for their recruiting buck.

Under pressure to cut costs and streamline their hiring efforts, recruiting managers find it’s more efficient to focus on fewer large schools and forge deeper relationships with them, according to a Wall Street Journal survey of top corporate recruiters whose companies last year hired 43,000 new graduates.

Prof. Bainbridge reproduces the Top 25 with the USN rankings in (). Here’s the Top 10 from the WSJ.

1 Penn State (#47 in U.S. News)
2 Texas A&M (#63)
3 Illinois (#47)
4 Purdue (#56)
5 Arizona State (#143)
6 Michigan (#29)
7 Georgia Tech (#35)
8 Maryland (#56)
9 Florida (#53)
10 Carnegie Mellon (#23)

Now, which college are you going to spring $50,000/year for Junior to attend?

I thought so.

by Mondo Frazier
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Saw the illustration above at iOTW: What An Outstanding Banner!.

I was just randomly surfing around different blogs and I stumbled upon this blog called Cubachi, and I was struck by how amazing this banner was… and then I realized, “oh ya, I made it.”

Seriously, Cubachi has been blogging for quite awhile and I follow her on twitter. She is a warrior and I was extremely happy to be able to work with her on this.

Now, we’d heard of Cubachi and had been there once or twice, but we went over for a more leisurely stroll around the place and will report that it was a pleasant one.

New Header with a smiley face is the post that corresponds with the one at iOTW. There are others deserving of a read.

* NJ State senate almost turns into an episode of ‘Jersey Shore.’

* Video Rep. Darrell Issa: Steele is ‘not my leader’ is good–not the least because the post’s sentiments very closely mirror my own.

Even though, at an earlier juncture we’d called for Steele’s head [Fire Michael Steele Yesterday], the day is getting late: wait until his term is up after the mid-terms, wish him well, show him the door and remind him ‘not to look back.’

In the meantime, as far as his job at the RNC goes, tell him to keep his mouth shut and his hand out.

Back to Cubachi.

It’s fairly new–although I couldn’t find the archives to pinpoint exactly how new it was.

Check it out.

NOTE: Upon re-reading BFH’s assessment that Cubachi had been around for awhile, I realized that maybe it wasn’t “fairly new.” Maybe I should have said “fairly new–to me.”

ONE MORE NOTE: Can’t wait until this server issue is resolved–both here and on the other DBKP sites. It’s making it a pain to post; can only imagine the pain of waiting for the page to load like it does. Oh well, sometime in the next 36 hours…

by Mondo Frazier
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PAY ATTENTION, YOU BASTARDS,
ETIQUETTE AHEAD!

[Had this in the tabs for a couple days and now have the time to comment on it.]

A PUBLIC SERVICE

There are times when someone provides a public service to others less fortunate. One such service was stumbled upon a few days ago.

Little Miss Attila (Break a rule? No need to call for back-up–her name itself provides the necessary authority) provides help for the blogging-challenged among us.

Blogging Guidelines: Ethical Concerns, and Advice—DRAFT 1

The need is great.

LMA is nothing if not versatile. Sometimes, her advice is gentle, providing etiquette tips for the unknowing.

Keep all of your block quotations to a reasonable length; try not to quote at great length unless the publication you are quoting is subscribtion-only, or out-of-print. Never quote an entire blog entry (unless it is exceedingly short, and part of a series).

Do not duplicate a picture of another blogger from their own site without their permission. Do not copy a photo or image of any kind from their site without proper credit and a link. Give a credit (and linkage, where appropriate) to any mainstream/legacy material you are using.

At other times, she’s positively Emily Post-al. About her own commenting policy:

I allow misogyny in my comments section, because it is generally directed at me, and I feel it shows the true colors of the woman-hating commenters. Any anti-male, anti-Asian, anti-gay, anti-tranny, anti-black, anti-American Indian, and anti-Jewish comments, though (or ones that look like they might be indicative of biases in that direction) generally get a warning, and a reminder that repeated offenses are subject to redaction, and banning. (Yeah, I have a little Native American in me, but most people don’t know that, and it doesn’t show in my picture, fair as I am. My half-sister is half-Syrian, though, so anti-Arab posters get cussed at. And my niece? Half-Polish, so don’t even fucking try that, either.)

And if you continue to ignore good Internet manners?

“Now go away, because I don’t want you as a reader. Thanks.”

Which is all as it should be.

NOTE: The commentariat at the LMA site provide a variety of helpful tips in the comments section.

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NEWS YOU CAN USE

Five skills not everyone has–or wants, maybe–but are useful in today’s a-go-go world. Pepper your food like a pro, how to spot a poser, how to make a good drink, how to shovel your walk so it’s spotless and how to catch an iPhone thief.

We’ll give you the down-and-dirty; click on the links for more info.

1-Pepper Your Food Like a Pro

It’s very simple: if you use a pepper mill, then simply twist a quarter-turn of ground pepper onto a plate, press your index finger on the pepper grounds and whatever sticks to your finger is the right amount to flick into your soup, salad, mashed potatoes, whatever.
–How to Add the Proper Amount of Pepper to Food

2- How to Spot a Poser

Every day you’re surrounded by people whose motives may not be clear. You may wonder whether they really are who they say they are, and if they really believe what they say that they do. Learning to spot a poser can be somewhat tricky, especially if the person is really good at hiding his true identity. Here’s how you can spot a poser in your own social circles.
–How to spot a poser

3- Make a Good Drink

Good booze is not rocket science, nor does it have to be expensive. A very small amount of prep time, a little attention to detail, some creativity, and bingo: cocktails after work for you and yours, or you and your friends. You will need, the right equipment, yummy finger foods, and some great drinks. The internet is replete with recipes and methods so I wont bother here. Don’t let terms like muddle, strain, and garnish intimidate you. An orange can be garnished and made into ingredients in seconds. If you screw up a drink too badly, it can always be tossed out. (that was a difficult sentence to type)
–The Booze Thread Pt 2: Happy Hour and Making Great Drinks.

4- How to Shovel Your Walk Of Snow So That It Is Spotless

Step 1: Use the cooking spray on the plastic bottom of the shovel so that the snow glides off of it easier. Then shovel the snow away from the walkway by pushing the shovel in front of you underneath the snow.
–How to Shovel Your Walk Of Snow So That It Is Spotless

5- How to catch an iPhone thief

The whole thing started when my plane landed in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon at 2:55pm coming from Cabo San Lucas. The guy sitting next to me on the plane asked me to loan him a pen so that he could fill out his customs form. I watched him fill out the form and clearly remember his birth year of 1984, but am a bit unsure about his name. I think it was —–, but in this story, we will refer to him as Pinche.
[...]
When it came time to move into the aisle, an old lady sitting in 27C started moving and so I stopped, but Pinche saw this as an opportunity. He bumped me, then jumped in front of the old lady and ran off of the plane. I waited for the old lady to step into the aisle, and I walked behind her. Five seconds later, I reached for my phone and it was not in my pocket anymore. I waited for everyone to exit the plane and went back to my seat. I looked everywhere but was not able to find the phone. One of the flight attendants (Karen) offered to help. She called the phone and it was not ringing. This was strange because I had perfect reception a minute ago.
–Busting an iPhone thief

Did readers find any of these useful?

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Those ads showing orange Verizon covering most of the USA with its cell phone 3G network–with AT&T’s network coverage looking anemic–will continue to roll.

AT&T has dropped its lawsuit against Verizon over the ads.

FROM AT&T drops lawsuit against Verizon over advertising spat:

After failing to have Verizon’s advertisements criticizing its network coverage pulled off of the air, AT&T has decided to drop its lawsuit against the nation’s largest wireless carrier.

Both Verizon and AT&T filed an official dismissal of the case in an Atlanta, Ga., federal court Wednesday. In addition, a separate lawsuit filed by Verizon against AT&T was also dismissed.

In November, AT&T had asked the court to pull what it felt were “misleading” advertisements from Verizon, criticizing AT&T’s nationwide 3G coverage. But a judge later denied that request, noting that though Verizon’s ads could be construed as “sneaky,” they were not misleading. Both parties were originally set to meet in court on Dec. 16 for a second chance to present their case on the proposed injunction.

Read the rest at the link above.

So, it looks like Verizon’s commercials, while “sneaky” are truthful.

AT&T better hurry to catch up.

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LUCKY AMERICANS LIKELY WON’T EVEN NOTICE THE GOV’T TAKING YOUR MONEY FOR FRAUD

AP Science Writer Hides ClimateGate, Shills for Alarmist Frauds

THANKS, SETH BORENSTEIN!

Associated Press Science Writer, Seth Borenstein, ignores ClimateGate and instead spreads the news that your life won’t change much under the new Obama carbon targets.

From New climate targets may not change daily life much :

Americans’ day-to-day lives won’t change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next decade, experts say.

Except for rising energy bills. And how much they’ll go up depends on who’s doing the calculating.

Except for rising energy bills?!? Hey, Seth, we wouldn’t even notice that if you’d pay for the rise. But we’ll be paying for it.

Seth doesn’t quote anyone whose bill will be rising.

The article contains no “Hey, I didn’t even notice they were in my pocket. Thanks, Seth, for looking out for me!”

Borenstein shills for the Goremons and their ‘scientist’ ilk. NOT A WORD of the scam that is the Mann* Made Global Warming Fraud.

Perhaps his title should read, Seth Borenstein, “Science” Writer.

The AP continues its slide into deserved oblivion.

* – Refers to Michael Mann, he of the debunked “hockey stick” hokey schtick graph.

Did Wiki editors desert the online compendium during the first quarter 2009?

From Wikipedia ‘loses’ 49,000 editors:

Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia “lost” 49,000 of its volunteer editors in the first three months of 2009, University research suggests.

The figure compares with a loss of 4,900 over the same period in 2008.

The encyclopaedia-style website encourages editorial changes from everybody who comes to the site.

Wikimedia UK, a chapter of the organisation that operates Wikipedia, has denied that it means the site is struggling.

The report cites Felipe Ortega, from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, who carried out the research.

Wikipedia is a fine source for historical entries, but the online encyclopedia has been accused of biased editing on political entries.

During the John Edwards Scandal, Wikipedia banned all mention of the topic on its site–until Edwards confessed publicly.

This blackout occurred even though “Rielle Hunter”–Edwards’ mistress who carried his baby–was the most-searched term on Google during parts of December 2007 and in the weeks before Edwards confessed.

This was not the first time that Wikipedia had been accused of biased editing of political articles at the site. Does the desertion of 49000 editors have anything to do with this?

We await further reports.