Quick Hits for September 30, 2010

2012 debunked
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A recent lunch put on by the Morehead Planetarium brought in several scientists to prove the world will not in fact end in 2012. If they could only tell us why the movie sucked so badly.

Krispy Kreme soars
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Sales of the delicious creamy doughnuts have beat expectations. Praise be to Chapel Hill’s shameless gluttons, especially since the 13 other dessert shops are doing fine as well. There’s a stimulus package we like.

UNC Cosmo hunk
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Freshman Matt Hill brought great honor to UNC by being featured as a “Hunk of the Month” in Cosmopolitan magazine. Too bad it was the Philippines edition and he was on page 208.

Men’s soccer
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What a week for men’s soccer — beating the University of Maryland Terrapins (read: turtles) for the first time since 2003. If we were anywhere else on the planet, we could actually say we are proud of our “football” team.

Hillsborough St.
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Raleigh spends a decade and $10 million dollars (trying) to redevelop N.C. State’s Hillsborough Street into a Franklin Street substitute. Even if successful, we know the school it butts up against will never be as good as ours.

The wrong way
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Jimi Heselden, the owner of the Segway company, died last Sunday when he drove one off of a cliff. Apparently he was using a cross-country version of the famous scooter. We don’t know about you guys, but we’ll stick with ATVs.