On April 21, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the social networking site’s latest gimmick, one which allows Facebook to engage with a user’s internet activity outside Facebook’s homepage. Websites that have partnered with Facebook can greet visitors with personalized content.

Last week, I read about an impossible feat. The Globe and Mail interviewed Sean Aiken, the author of One-Week Job. Aiken, a business school graduate, wrote about his experiences working 52 jobs in 52 weeks—one job for every week of the year.

Darts and laurels are given based on Journal topics covered in 2009-2010

Last week, one of my professors took the first five minutes of class to gauge students’ opinions on the proposed changes to the English department’s curriculum. An hour later the class was still talking, and had opened up to a larger discussion about Queen’s academic future.

On Tuesday, the National Post published an article about the AMS’s decision to cancel a Food Bank fundraiser called the “SUMO Showdown” that would have made use of two sumo wrestling suits.
The suits, oversized plastic costumes designed to mimic the ancient Japanese sport of sumo wrestling, are yellow-tinted and include helmets with structures resembling black buns of hair on top.

Call me a pessimist, but I was surprised when the Journal and CFRC’s mandatory fee increases passed at the AMS Annual General Meeting Tuesday night.
This campus’s recent history has shown students appear to have an inexplicable hate-on for media.

Last Thursday in the Queen’s Centre a small group of students made an alternative fashion statement with “Rogue,” a fun and fearless show designed to challenge mainstream norms of body image and gender identity, among others.

The newspaper’s gradual shift toward web-based content has some huge implications, the largest of which is that news coverage has become a two-way street.
Instead of reading a news story and then putting the paper down to sip their coffee, people can react immediately by posting comments online in response to the story or to other people’s comments.

A Liberal Member of Parliament is proposing a new private member’s bill that would require the five highest-paid executives of registered Canadian charities to publicly disclose their salaries, the Globe and Mail reported March 16.

I’m not sure how I survived the Oscars.
Maybe it was the red wine and hilarious curmudgeonly commentary from my father. Twitter also helped—watching my tiny laptop screen light up with a new tweet was often much more entertaining and interesting than watching my TV set.

Rob Johnston, a man from Winnipeg who has struggled with alcoholism for 40 years, recently filed a complaint with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission because he can’t find a nearby rehabilitation program that doesn’t make use of religion or spirituality, CBC News reported March 8.

To save anyone considering it the trouble, I’ve catalogued my day. I walk down University Ave. a lot. I go to the grocery store sometimes. I’m on friendly terms with the fish monger.

In the Feb. 17 and 18 referendum, the Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) voted against giving $4.5 million to to Queen’s Centre project.

With the Olympics now underway and Canadian spirit high across the nation, I got to wondering what it is about winning medals and claiming victories that brings us together as a nation more so than at any other time.

In their Feb. 13 coverage discussing predictions for the final Olympic torchbearer, NBC’s Today Show mixed up marathoner Terry Fox and actor Michael J. Fox, both prominent Canadians.