Weekly Quarterlife Links

• Wanna know the math behind predicting the election?
  PLACE YOUR BETS!

• Be like Joe Friday…
  Just the facts

• How many presidential candidates will be on your ballot?
  Project Vote Smart

Top 10 Proposals for New Olympic Sports

10. Manscaping. It will be a few years until the Eastern European teams can really compete on our level.

9. Red Rover. Red Rover, Red Rover let the Chinese come over.

8. Drinking game pentathalon: Strip poker, quarters, beer pong, asshole, flip cups. The Irish have won every year.

7. Extreme Tubing - not to be confused with ‘extreme tubbing’, where guys in bath tubs race down a steep-ass mountain. [Read more]

WTF for Friday, August 15th 2008

• What happens when a cartoonist mixes marijuana and ’shrooms?
  That’s right: I am more delicious.
  Cream 500

• As Van Halen once said, “Might as well jump!”
  Ways to entertain yourself in a hotel.
  Hotel Jump

• “A Tampon Stun Gun! You shouldn’t have…”
  What happens to products that don’t get picked up by QVC.
  Slightly Warped.com

Top Ten Worst Ideas for a Date

10. Bringing your MacBook Pro for the “slow” moments.

9. Taking a vegan to the Brazilian steak house.

8. Taking someone to a lecture on the proliferation of HPV in a modern twenty-something culture.

7. A workout out at the Gym. Sweat can be produced in much better ways.

6. Taking a current date to an ex’s favorite haunt. AAAAaaaawk-ward. [Read more]

Weekly Quarterlife Links

• An article that explored whether our generation has become too demanding in the workforce.
  Generation Y: Too Demanding at Work

• A blog that attempts to distill the quarter-life crisis.
  “Being Twenty-Something”

• An article defending why our generation is actually the most productive. Ever.
  7 Reasons Why My Generation Is More Productive than Yours

WTF for Friday, August 7th 2008

• Argh, This L.P. Be Free, Says I
  You know you wanted to be a pirate. Maybe you are.
  Coins of the Realm

• Playing an Acoustic Guitar…Electronically
  Can’t afford Guitar Hero?
  Flash Guitar

• “I Wanna Live Again!”
  Yes, the ending is just as sappy.
  It’s a Wonderful Internet

Top Ten Things You Tell Your Friend But Not Your Mom

10. “Only a loser would have married my dad.”

9. “I don’t think I’m really using my college degree.”

8. “That burning sensation has really gone down.”

7. “I don’t believe in God/Jesus/Buddha/Allah/Santa Claus.”

6. “Maybe I should look into stripping as a second job to support my Wii habit.” [Read more]

Weekly Quarterlife Links

A News Producer from Chicago offers her take on millennials.
The Millennials: Generation All About Me

An article about a recent study by the Northwestern Mutual Financial Network about millennials’ attitudes toward their careers.
“Millennials are ‘Eager but Anxious’”

A resourceful site for the greatest unsong hero: the intern.
Internet Queen, Inc.

WTF for Friday, August 1st 2008

• At least It Isn’t Rocket Science.
  Didn’t you know? Physics is fun!
  Imaginary Potential

• The Joy of Cursing Puppets…in SWEDISH!
  From the Swedish production of “Avenue Q.” The first song to really understand what it is to be twenty-something and lost.
  “I Wish I Can Go Back to College” [Read more]

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  Weekly Quarterlife Links

  July 30, 2008

  • We know you need a job. Take a look at what the Man thinks of you.
    Attracting the Twentysomething Worker
  • Doing it over? I would have gotten in trouble more!
    Twentysomething: Why I Regret Getting Straight A’s in College
  • Money makes the world go ’round.
    Poorer Than You

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