
2.08.2010
Someone want to buy me this?

ANTM gets a credibility boost
I can't remember the last time I watched America's Next Top Model regularly (I think it was the Melrose/Jade cycle... classic television) but I know why I haven't: it blows.Fun Superbowl ads
Using Greek leadership on a resume
- Oversaw $___ budget; coordinated with President in allocating funds responsibly throughout the academic year
- Organized several philanthropic events, both on campus and in community, successfully raising over $___ for local charities
- Served as a member of the chapter's Discipline Committee
- Participated in diversity and cultural sensitivity training
- Oversaw and executed recruitment process; created public relations plan for the year and successfully increased recruitment quota from ___ to ___
- Collaborated with membership chairs of other sororities to coordinate recruitment process
- Used Java and MyZQL to develop a voting system to enable members to anonymously vote on fraternity business
- Redesigned fraternity's website using PHP and Flashing resulting in ___% increase in web traffic
- Ensured that all standing rules and bylaws, as well as national rules, were adhered to consistently
UC: Best Online Textbook Rentals
Tired of that hefty bookstore bill each semester? Consider renting your textbooks from an online service. For University Chic, I determined which site gave you the best bang for your buck:Between the costs of tuition, room and board, books, a computer, and the ever-essential daily Starbucks run, it’s expensive to be a college student these days. And we’re in a recession. Good timing, right? Now more than ever, it’s important for students to watch their wallet and look for ways to save (ideally without sacrificing that morning Venti).
Enter online book rental services. Everyone complains about trips to the crowded bookstore for overpriced textbooks, but now there’s an easy alternative: You can rent all the textbooks you need online for much less than the cost of buying them. Comparing Chegg.com, CollegeBookRenter.com, and CampusBookRentals.com, I set out to determine which online textbook rental service offered the best bang for your buck.
Initially, I thought CampusBookRentals.com was the clear winner: They offer rentals per semester (130 days), per quarter (85 days), or for the summer (55 days), each with a 15-day grace period in case you need a little extra time with your book; books are shipped to you for free and come with pre-paid envelopes so you can ship them back for free too; and each rental has a 30-day risk-free period, which is handy in case you drop a class and need to send that book back. Also, if you need to take the class again, you can easily re-rent and get 30% off the original rental price.
But then I discovered one big problem with CampusBookRentals.com…every textbook I searched for was out of stock! For the sake of fair comparison, I planned to compare the rental prices of three identical books from each service. But I couldn’t compare the prices because the first several I searched for on CampusBookRentals.com were MIA. After ten searches with no luck, I gave up on CampusBookRentals.com.
Perhaps there’s a reason Chegg.com is number one in online textbook rentals - every book I searched for was available (annd at reasonable rental prices to boot). Though Chegg.com lacks a few of CampusBookRentals.com’s benefits (like the grace period and re-rental discount), it makes up for it with its inventory. While the prices on CollegeBookRenters.com were a few dollars less for the books I needed this semester, they don’t offer the 30 day “any reason” guarantee, or the promise to plant a tree for each book you rent or sell like Chegg.com does.
By renting three books (Everything’s an Argument, Textiles, and The Science of Psychology) on Chegg.com instead of buying them, I would save $238.56 (renting the books for $87.72 instead of paying $326.28 to buy them). Imagine all the coffee you could buy with that extra cash (not to mention all the freetime you'll have, what with not having to wait in line for half a day just to find out that book you paid $150 for is now only worth $15 bucks).
Gross ingredients in fake perfume
According to an article from Good Morning America, you could be getting more than you bargain for when buying counterfeit perfumes. 2.07.2010
Celebrities paid to sit front row!
I would sell a kidney to sit front row at New York Fashion Week.A-List
Rihanna ($100,000 or more)
Beyonce ($80,000-$100,000)
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen ($80,000 each)
Julianne Moore ($60,000)
Maggie Gyllanhal ($60,000)
Chloe Sevigny ($60,000 or more)
Jennifer Lopez (circa 2005: $80,000; circa 2010: $30,000)
Lindsay Lohan (circa 2006: $60,000; circa 2010; UNINVITED)
Colin Firth (pre-A Single Man: $5,000; post-A Single Man: $15,000)
B-List
Blake Lively ($50,000)
Leighton Meester ($40,000)
Hillary Duff ($40,000)
Other Gossip Girl cast members ($25,000 a piece)
Jared Leto ($25,000)
Cliven Owen ($10,000)
Kristen Bell (unpaid, but airfare, makeup and clothing are taken care of)
C-List
Kim Kardashian ($35,000-$50,000)
Amanda Bynes ($25,000-$30,000)
Eliza Dushku (unpaid, but airfare, makeup and clothing are taken care of)
D-List
Paris Hilton (free or UNINVITED)
Jersey Shore cast (UNINVITED)
America’s Next Top Model Winners (free)
So celebrities respond to tweets?
peoplesrev @AccordingtoAli it pays to work hard, be smart -then it is easy to snag hot guys!!!
Who is PR icon Kelly Cutrone?
I've been fascinated with Kelly Cutrone, fashion PR extraordinaire, since first meeting her berating Lauren Conrad on The Hills. Since then she's made frequent appearances on Whitney Port-vehicle The City as well, always playing a supporting but vital role. - She came to New York at 21 from Syracuse, where she was raised.
- She immediately met writer Anthony Haden-Guest and moved into his apartment. Through Haden-Guest, she was hired as the assistant of famous publicist Susan Blond.
- At 22, she married Andy Warhol protege Ronnie Cutrone. He described her at that age as "wild, ambitious, volatile, sexual. Sex and the City looks like a ridiculous joke compared to what Kelly was!"
- By her 20s, she was one-half of the successful PR company Cutrone & Weinberg. Her partner Jason Weinberg was a former Blond intern and now is a prominent talent manager in LA.
- She was unhappy with the company, and used drugs to keep up with her lifestyle. She sold her half of the biz to Weinberg and moved west.
- For a year and a half, she was a tarot card reader on Venice Beach. No joke.
- She had a short-lived record deal with Atlantic based on a demo of her chanting over a friend's band's "groove"
- She was married a second time, to an actor.
- The father of her 7-year-old daughter Ava is Ilario Calvo, an Italian she met in Paris. They broke up three months into her pregnancy.
- For several years, she's been dating music producer Jimmy Boyle, who lives in LA.
- At the time of the article I found, an Argentinean male model she discovered in Mexico City was living with her and her daughter in Soho, along with a 7-year-old Native-American girl who is the granddaughter of former boyfriend and Native-American activisit John Trudell (who also happened to be dating Angelina Jolie's mother at the time of her death). What an odd household!
- She meditates daily and consults a yogi every Saturday at midnight.
