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Thanks to the magic of Facebook applications, now you can actually put Record Blue Book classes into your Facebook profile! This application, based on the content of the Record Blue Book, based in turn on the content of the Yale Blue Book (let's be honest, who reads that one anyway?), lets you browse through funny classes in real and fake departments. You can even make up your own schedule of these classes to put in your profile.

Haha! After several hours of moving, shuffling, grumbling, stooping, squishing, shoving, taping, wrapping, sifting, and various utterances of general frustration, I am officially packed for back to school!! In celebration, I have compiled this list of packing musts for any Yale student.

1. Husband Pillow (Bedlounge): This pillow is particularly important because it has all the qualities I seek in a man - continuous support for my upper back in a variety of attractive styles.

2. Towel (Prankplace): Just as you start rubbing down your hair, your roommate let's you know that she borrowed your towel this morning. In this situation, you'll want to be completely clear on where the parts touching your hair have been.

3. Computation Device (Science eStore): For computations, of course. Slower models available at Sony.com

4. Plastic Bucket (Instawares): Because let's be honest, all suitemates get into sticky situations... The bucket keeps problems in the hands (and hair) of that suitemate.


Optional Items:

5. Kitchen Scale: Because all bananas are not created equal

6. Grip-N-Flip, Scoop-N-Strain Set (As-Seen-On-TV.com): Saturday night pancakes will never be the same!

7. The Wall Street Journal: Calm down, you don't have to read it. Just carry it around in your bag and pull it out any time you want to scare someone off with how damn smart you are. (Substitutions include War and Peace (Amazon.com), The Feminine Mystique (Amazon.com), or Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Amazon.com)).

Howard Dean dropped off the map after his failed bid for the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, but with the advent of Hurricane Dean - one of the strongest hurricanes in recent history - the name Dean and its associations are apparently on many peoples' minds.

Here is a great mashup of the Dean shout with a projected path of Hurricane Dean, with Scorpions music to boot (can you guess the song?). It's at YTMND.com, which stands for "You're the Man Now, Dog!", the famous line spoken by Sean Connery in the movie Finding Forrester. This website consists of user-created content often to create puns or more elaborate jokes. With no further ado:

Hurricane Dean's projected path! (Click to get the full audiovisual experience)

I am only 37% embarrassed to say that I am addicted to Reality TV. After 3 months of watching, I would like to offer this clip as a message of hope to all those who think that America has lost its charm or talent: Boy Shakira:

And because this world is fair and good, he actually progressed to the semi-finals and became Boy Britney:

I hope that we, as bloggers and blog readers, can look to Boy Shakritney as a source of hope for what reality and television have to offer.

Arguably the highlight of the Yale Record's 135-year history as an American institution is the invention of the name of America's most ubiquitous food, the hot dog--replacing its previous name, "frankfurtweinersausagewurst".

This was in 1895. 112 years later, we present without any further explanation the Yale Record's Tribute to the Hot Dog.

Welcome to the brand new Yale Record weblog: better, stronger, faster, and hopefully more successful than our previous message system, which consisted of strapping heavy stone tablets to the backs of specially trained hares. In the near future you will find a variety of things here, including coverage of Record events such as our much-anticipated issue releases and popular Master's Teas, troves of humor dug up from our own magazine's rich 135-year history, gems of hilarity found wandering about the internet, and whatever else we decide to cook up.

We're excited to be writing this blog. We hope you're excited to read it. And we know the hares are excited to have that weight off their shoulders.