You all know that I usually abhor MySpace and all that it’s worth, and after tonight I’ve got another rant all queued up that’s just waiting to be written, but nonetheless, for those who are into such things and might not have a LiveJournal account or something, Lori went and setup a MySpace profile for L7 Comix this evening…
http://www.myspace.com/l7comix
Add us as a friend or buy our new techno CD or whatever the hell it is that you do on MySpace. Enjoy!
University expels cheater scan
http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Search/488690.html
“We feel that Turnitin.com is a back-end approach. We need to promote academic integrity, we need to teach students what is plagiarism, what you should do, what you shouldn’t do and have more personalized ways of checking for plagiarism.”
This is such a cop-out and as far as I’m concerned, it’s a mockery to those students who actually do complete their own term papers to have the student body ban together and say, “We don’t think it’s fair that you’ve got an effective system to check and see if we’re plagiarizing stuff off the Internet! Blah blah blah, human rights, blah blah blah, where’s my Mommy?” We desensitize our youth to everything else in schools that they’re mindless, insecure guppies once they enter the work place, and now they’re complaining that it’s too easy for them to get caught when cheating?! What’s next – McDonald’s has to get rid of the time clock because it sets forth an unfair bias that its employees aren’t just going to show up on time for shifts on their own?
I made up my mind on plagiarism a long time ago because here in the real world, the consequences can really ruin somebody’s life when the shit hits the fan. But yeah, let’s just let them skim over the valuable lesson of why cheating is bad during the school year, too. With the state of affairs today, sometimes I wonder why we even bother with school anymore…
Is it just me, or is Penny Arcade developing more of a “what the fuck?” nuance about their work every day?
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/03/01
Not that I didn’t laugh, but…what the fuck?!
Just a random noticing – has anyone ever seen a Myspace page that has more than, oh, three or four blog postings on it?
Maybe I just don’t understand their archiving system or its hidden to members only or something, but as far as I’m concerned, it looks to me like it’s pretty much a place to post your latest meme…and that’s it. But then again, maybe I’m just an Internet snob at this point – almost six hundred posts on LiveJournal over three years, and many more on older websites. Back in my day, it was all about telnet and bulletin boards and gopher!!!
Damn kids and your new-found, content-less Internet…
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20060305
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=169866
Seriously, the only way this could’ve been better is had it been Disney World instead. If I didn’t have a job and had a ton of cash to mess around with, that would be such an awesome project to undertake…
Sleep position gives personality clue
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3112170.stm
This was kind of bizarre, yet interesting in the same light. Apparently they think I’m a yearner, but they’ve got the cynical part all wrong, oh who am I kidding?
The yearner (13%): People who sleep on their side with both arms out in front are said to have an open nature, but can be suspicious, cynical. They are slow to make up their minds, but once they have taken a decision, they are unlikely ever to change it.
Also, if anyone reads that and feels like hinting me in on what a “duvet” might be, that would be great. Silly foreigners and their different words for everything…
I’m doing some research for our next batch of Ink, Paint & Tears… strips and came across this fantastic quote, straight from the boudoir in Springfield to your home:
Yes, that timestamp is pretty much accurate, but at least I feel like I got something accomplished this weekend!
http://www.scottsevener.com/
I decided to take a break on the c-g design after dinner because I was still stumped and figured I’d work on this one instead, seeing as Lori finished the graphics for it, like, a month ago and it really should be done by now. Don’t even bother following that link in Firefox yet because the layout is all screwed up there, but it should be ok in IE … at least until I try to fix it for Mozilla…
I’ve seen most of these other places before, but being the Lego nut that I am…
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-strangest-lego-creations