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Check out all that cretin ivy (image source: ee.princeton.edu)Oh, sorry, that's "New Ways to Procrastinate." In case you were running out of brief (?) diversions to get you through the upcoming week, or simply looking for new websites to add to your Self Control app, here's a good one that can keep you going for a while. (If you don't believe me, just check out today's Tower Talk e-mails -- 49 e-mails later, it's still funny. Sort of.)Just type in your name, a friend's name, perhaps a mortal enemy's name, and let the little website do its work. What you get out? Hilarious - and often terrifyingly accurate - anagrams of what you put in.Take, for example, a small controlled experiment done on the site to elicit its true feelings about the Ivies. Inputs of each university's name yielded the following:Princeton University: "I spurn cretin ivy" (Possibly Princeton students' favorite activity...)Harvard University: "Try hard an' survive" (At least that's what "The Social Network" would have us believe.)Columbia University: "Evil scum in obituary" (Really? I'll have to start reading the obits more often.)Brown University: "Wry snob in virtue" (Take that, Emma Watson.)Cornell University: "Cleverly. Intrusion" (We knew you never belonged...)University of Pennsylvania: "VIP's insanitary of unevenly" (or, if you prefer, from Penn University: "Envy inspire nut")Dartmouth College: "Good! Lethal rectum" (Really nothing more to say there.)And, most flatteringly, Yale University: "True elysian ivy"Hmm, there seems to be a distinct bias here...I sense a Yale computer science project in disguise. In any case, though, check it out. And try adding middle names for even better anagrams. Then systematically try the names of every person you know - I suggest going alphabetically.And now, having exhausted my own Facebook friends (only kind of a joke), Agile as Eager Brain is signing out.N.B. Thanks to John Urbanik and Alice Su for the site tip-off.

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