Links of the Day

A few months back I considered trying to start a Drudge Report-style page for Cornell-related news (without the blatantly conservative tilt). Every day, there are a decent number of news articles and blog posts written about Cornell, as well as other references to our alma mater for research, sports, etc. If I knew a little more about websites, I might try to start a site that would bring all of these links together. Cornell News Watch does this a little bit, but without the editorial oversight which picks out the stuff people actually want to read.

Instead, every once in a while I include a post with links.

It's the end of the decade, so everyone is busy making lists and recaps. I counted down the top 10 Cornell hockey games of the 2000's here. The Cornell Review picked out the top five Cornell news stories of 2009. The Cornell Chronicle offers us the year in pictures, although most of the pictures don't give any clues that they were taken in 2009. The Ithaca Journal's year in review article has plenty of stuff about Cornell.

Uncle Ezra is on holiday break, so we'll have to wait a few weeks until he answers more questions like this one.

Ithacating has an interesting analysis of the most popular cars in Tompkins County. From my experience, the Subaru is definitely the car of choice for townies.

I won't post anything about Ivygate, except to point out that they tend to be 2-3 weeks behind every other media outlet in writing about things, and rarely add anything interesting.

I share Nagowski's surprise at the fact that Cornell actually admitted fewer people this year than last year in the early decision cycle. Maybe we should have admitted more quadruplets.

NHL.com has an article on last spring's Cornell hockey hero, Evan Barlow. He's playing on the same team as Mark McCutcheon.

In 2009, eight Cornell students were arrested and cost the Tompkins County Assigned Counsel program around $3,000.

More generally, Dave Barry's year in review had some funny lines. My favorite:

To replace Souter, President Obama nominates Sonia Sotomayor, setting off the traditional Washington performance of Konfirmation Kabuki, in which the Democrats portray the nominee as basically a cross between Abraham Lincoln and the Virgin Mary, and the Republicans portray her more as Ursula the Sea Witch with a law degree.

Enjoy the first day of the new decade.