Bored at Lamont

December 8th, 2006

Oh, I love this (via this):

“Lamont Library bears a striking resemblance to a Las Vegas casino. While Harvard’s monument to round-the-clock academic endeavor may lack blackjack tables and Siegfried & Roy, it shares the Vegas ethos of detachment from ordinary reality.

Temperature, lighting, and activity remain constant at all hours; concepts of time disintegrate as dusk fades into dawn with incredible rapidity. And like its Sin City counterparts, Lamont’s veneer of family-friendly fun hides a seedy underbelly. Vegas has its strip clubs and call girls; Lamont has boredatlamont.com.

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Boredatlamont.com is the online discussion board that has become the unofficial Web home of the Lamont patron. Anyone bored enough to type in the Web address can contribute in complete anonymity. New posts show up every few seconds, and while the potential topics of discussion are unlimited, the conversation veers invariably towards sex. (Saturday, 2:24:53 a.m.: “ISN’T THIS SITE THE COOLEST THING EVERRRRR!; Saturday, 2:24:57 a.m.: “my sexual frustration needs masturbatory release.”)”

Click at your own risk, but check out Boredat.net. Imagine what would be posted if this was your library…

Like most social software, the conversations always turn to sex. At Internet Librarian, I learned that the most popular thing to do on Second Life is have virtual sex on the streets. We live in very interesting times.

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