...because Star Wars is not one of the top 10 most popular movies there, according to Facebook. Besides that, our Facebook statistics page is remarkably similar to theirs -- every category is nearly identical. They don't even identify themselves as dirty hippies much more than we do! While not so unlikely, this is something of a blow against our

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Forget bike light tickets. This week, the Palo Alto police are giving out $100 tickets for running red lights at a bunch of intersections, some near campus. Sounds like a good idea, but $100 might be on the low side of the curve -- in San Francisco, the violation will run you (insert Soviet Russia joke here) $400, even if it's 3 am and you're pl

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Now for the low, low price of $1200, you can get an SUID that includes something like 1400 Cardinal dollars.

You see, someone living on campus for a little while decided to buy this to make life easier because she likes to cook!

Wait.  That doesn't make any sense...

But I guess neither does advertising that "It is a convenient card to use

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Uh oh! A Stanford journalism professor says our very own Dr. Rice isn't important anymore because she wrote a crappy op-ed once. I guess it's true if a professor said so. But wait...wouldn't the secretary herself say he's wrong? My head is going to explode!

So let's check in on exactly what those cutting edge researchers are doing in Gates. Reinventing the internet? Building Terminators? Looking at pr0n?

No, they're just making a completely unbeatable checkers program. This took 18 years. Supposedly it's useful for something besides checkers. Perhaps King's Court. It seems pretty useful for holdi

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Highlights from the Daily's police blotter feature:

•It took someone a year to steal a light fixture

•Leaving a purse unattended at a random party is dumb

•Someone at Theta Chi had something worth stealing in their car

•Staff at the stadium continue to be jerks (this time: to little girls with bikes)

•A soccer game is a good place to get pu

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