We Have Moved

The Elder and Younger Professors W.O. Wiseguy are pleased to announce that they have moved the Professor Plum's Plums to new digs under a new name.

http://www.professorwiseguy.com/

Mental Detox

I was too busy watching TV to know about this, so I'm a day late reporting that Mental Detox Week is here and we're in the middle of it. So blow up your TV and detoxify your mind!

Technoslave

It's too late for me, but save yourselves! Throw your cellphone out a bus window! Smash your laptop! (Better yet, send it to me, especially if it's really new and really nice, and I'll smash it.) But do not become a Technoslave.

All-Boy and All-Girl Schools

I have a confession: I attended an all-male school from eighth grade through high school. (Explains a few things, eh?) In the centuries since I graduated, my alma mater has gone co-ed, merging with a nearby all-female school. A recent article suggests that perhaps this merger was misguided from an educational standpoint, as single-sex education shows its value in England.

Line up for the Library

I know that some of you aren't entirely sure where the library is on your campus. Apparently some British students have a similar problem, opting instead to visit one of the world's great non-university libraries, The British Library. As we read in this article, Frustration for authors as students hog British Library reading rooms. Wouldn't you just feel awful if you kept the next Karl Marx from working in relative comfort?

Vintage Wii

Turns out that the Wii isn't as new as it seems to be. I found this ad in an old magazine, proving that the "ultimate joy machine" has been on the scene for--well, for a long time.
This is just one of several vintage ads created by somebody with a great deal too much time on their hands.

Set Your Sights Low

Here's a news story that proves that having high expectations just isn't worth it. Apparently, selective schools rejected more students than ever before. What this should teach us is that having lowered expectations is a good thing. While all these suckers are getting the thin envelope from Harvard (93% rejected) and Princeton (91% rejected), you can be sitting back, comfortably assured of admission to Northwestern Oklahoma Wesleyan Polytechnic A&M from the moment you drop the application in the mail. Why deal with the serial rejection you're going to get from the Ivy League and their ilk? Set your sights low, and you won't be disappointed.