#1 Party School episode of This American Life

This year, The Princeton Review named Penn State the #1 Party School in America. It's a rotating crown—last year it was University of Florida, before that it was West Virginia University. So we wondered: what's it like to be at the country's top party school? Note, Act Three was not in the broadcast version of the show. That's a web bonus.

Episodes like these are what drive me to donate a few bucks to this radio show every year. I listen on my iPhone in the car so it's not technically radio, but you know what i mean. Good listening, I very much recommend you check it out.

Ihnatko's handy tips for solar panels for peanuts.

It reminds me of those "Get rich quick with your own home business!" things that used to be advertised in magazines. You'd send in your $10 and get a sheet of paper saying "Take out an ad in a magazine advertising a get-rich-quick home business. Fill incoming orders with photocopies of this same sheet of paper.

Andy Ihnatko (by way of Roger Ebert) expresses his outrage at overpriced instructions for solar-powering your home. I need to think up one of these get-rich-quick schemes. Anyone wanna buy instructions on how to make a cult movie?