Top Party School, Perfect Scores, App For Toilets, Gridiron Ready

Five things to know today include perfect-score bowlers at Oakfield Lanes, prep football under way, toilet technology and other good reads.

Posted Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 5:29 am ET|Updated Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:55 am ET

Five things to know today, Aug. 6, as you go about your business in the Greater Brandon area.

From Brandon Crossroads Bowl — "Ok bowlers, lets see who can come up with the funniest bowling saying. Someone told me this on last week...'Bowling - You can get three strikes and you're not out!' "

From Oakfield Lanes of Brandon — A drive by Oakfield Lanes on Oakfield Drive in Brandon on Monday, Aug. 5, led to the knowledge of three bowlers with perfect scores in recent days. The scrolling marquee outside the alleys featured the names of three bowlers with perfect, 300 scores: Nick Register, Jim Sneed and Gerald Turner.

From MOSI — "Want to track a shark without worrying about being lunch for a big fish? You can track tagged sharks as they swim around the world with the link below. Its easy, just zoom in on the map, click on a dot to see the shark and click "where have I been." If the map from "Lori Anne" doesn't make you a little paranoid, check out the number of sharks hugging the coast of South Africa. Wow." See http://sharks-ocearch.verite.com/

From NPR (National Public Radio) — "Kevin Puts won the Pulitzer Prize for his opera Silent Night. He's written concertos and lots of other music, but he says writing a symphony is a particularly moving experience: 'I need a private place where I can express the spiritual, the epic, the heartbreaking without shame or embarrassment.' " See http://n.pr/16wwrd4

From NPR (National Public Radio) — "The news that a Japanese toilet can be remotely controlled by an Android app got us curious about what else was possible with this toilet technology." See The Hackable Japanest Toilet Comes With An App To Track Poop.

From The Princeton Review — The Best Colleges: 2014 Edition has been published, with The Princeton Review announcing top schools in 62 categories of ranking lists based on surveys of 126,000 students attending these schools. "Students rated everything from their financial aid to campus food," notes The Princeton Review's website. Categories include Most Religious Students, LGBT-Friendly, Jock Schools, Most Politically Active, Most Beautiful Campus, Best College Radio Station, Lots of Greek Life, Reefer Madness, Best Career Services and Students Pack the Stadiums. See The Princeton Review Best 378 Colleges Press Release. See the list, The Best 378 Colleges. Florida State University ranked No. 7 in "Lots of Beer" and No. 4 in "Jock Schools." The University of Florida ranked No. 5 in "Best Career Services" and No. 8 in "Best College Newspaper." New College of Florida? No. 3 in both "LGBT-Friendly" and "Top 10 Best Value Public Colleges." Top party school? That would be the University of Iowa, also No. 1 for "Lots of Hard Liquor" and No. 4 for "Lots of Beer."

From Brandon Eagles Football — It is Monday August 5, 2013. It is the first day of Football practice. Rest, eat and hydrate Eagles. See you @ 3:30 pm in the weight room.

From Durant Cougar Football — "100+ student-athletes out at our first practice of the year... Be part of something special #CougarPride #Family."

From Armwood Hawks Football — Kick-Off Classic: Armwood Hawks v. Cooper City Cowboys, Aug. 23 at 7 p.m., Armwood High School in Seffner, Florida. See http://on.fb.me/187bkxc.

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