Donnie Darko. Fight Club. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Amazing movies everyone has seen–and probably loved. Other than being cult classics, these films all have a mind-twisting quality to them that warrants more than ...

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The tech world is abuzz with the news that more than half a million Macs were infected with malware. As a Mac Elitist myself (a title you get by being condescending to any of your ...

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Five Apps That Outperform Their Platforms Some apps are terrible, others are glorious. But I always feel surprised when I prefer the app version of something to the actual thing. Some apps will never be ...

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Donna Alexander, the vice president for information technology at the University of Tampa, attended the scheduled faculty senate meeting last Friday to talk about the recent data breach at UT. As The Minaret previously reported, ...

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All that 18-year-old Mike Stone wanted was to take a porn star to prom. Cnet.com reported on March 24, 2012 that the Tartan High School student from Minnesota got it into his head to go ...

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“#ToMyUnbornChild if you turn out gay, I will burn you alive.” –Daborey Burrell (@Shityboy2Stainz). #ToMyUnbornChild was a trending topic on Twitter on March 12 of 2012. The idea was that users could tweet to their ...

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Dear Fantasy Football Players Who Had Me On Their Roster, I’m so sorry for what happened mid-season. I know I let you all down, and I really can’t apologize enough. I know there are people ...

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Paul McCartney. The name alone has this sort of legendary status to it. There is only one Paul McCartney, one John Lennon, one Ringo Starr, and one that other guy (just kidding, I mean George ...

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The Fray’s self-titled sophomore album, The Fray, received mixed reviews. When I first heard it I was unimpressed, comparing it to the seminal How to Save a Life and finding it distinctly lacking. On February ...

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California’s 9th Circuit Court made a monumental ruling on Tuesday, Feb. 7th in a 2-1 decision to strike down Proposition 8. California voters passed Prop. 8 in 2008, banning gay marriage after thousands of same-sex ...

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Sitcoms are either hit or miss for me. Most of the time I get annoyed by the stock characters and poor writing, but occasionally I also get hooked and end up watching every episode, waiting ...

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One of the things that excited me most about leaving high school for college was the idea of being someone different. I’m a senior now, but I remember my freshmen year and how I was ...

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2012. The fabled year that the world ends. In early 2011 there was fervor over the idea that everything would go up in smoke. People have relaxed a lot since then, with the idea of ...

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As the Opinion Editor of The Minaret, the criticism I hear every week is that my section is too liberal, that all of our articles are “right-wing bashing.” These remarks frequently appear online; Minaret policy ...

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