There’s a sadness to scrolling too far down on a story you’re reading and discovering the comments section. For most major news sites this area is a festering cesspool of racist, homophobic, and misogynistic diatribes. Most people don’t speak this way in everyday life, so is it the anonymity of the Internet that opens up this hidden side to the public? I guess, but doesn’t anyone have anything better to do?
When in doubt on how to solve a problem, devour someone. There’s probably no better advice for a young person today. There’s probably a business self-help book in there somewhere.
High minded issues like net neutrality never are issues to most people until they affect their leisure time, or wallets. It will be interesting to see where this issue eventually develops, and if it enters the general conscience as an issue before it’s finally settled. Because as of now, it certainly isn’t there.
Sure, most of a university is now completely dependent upon the Internet for their very survival, but an English department somehow manages to survive without. Well, should at least. This is fantasy, after all.
The Mole character introduced here was created years ago for a web site project that never quite took off. We knew eventually we’d get some use out of him, or at least we’d like to believe we had that foresight. Still cool to finally see him pop up somewhere.
Note the two bottom right stories
While piddling about online looking for something interesting to read, I made the mistake of visiting CNN’s website. What’s so bad about CNN’s site, you ask?
First, why does CNN act confused about where I am? Just about every other website in the world can recognize and greet me knowing I’m from the United States. For some reason, CNN always asks me if I’m sure I want the US edition of its website. CNN is like a teenage waiter his first night on the job. “Are you sure you wanted a baked potato?” Apparently even if it did turn out to be wrong, all I have to do is click a link at the top labeled “US edition.” ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I understand the branding aspect, but isn’t it just a little bit weird that we create cute icons to represent social media sites? Isn’t it sort of like telling people that they can connect with their friends through this site, but just in case they don’t have friends–here’s a new one! it looks like a bird–sort of.
Electronika looks like a girl I once took to a high school dance. Bam, rim shot! I’ll be here all week. And probably a lot longer, sadly.
To the best of my understanding we have technology that can block cell phones in movie theaters. Â Why are we not using it? Â Why not just install it into every theater in the country? Â By law?
I’ve heard the arguments against such tech. Â Perhaps someone really needs to be available? Â Honestly, if you’re so important you can’t be out of touch for two hours, you probably don’t need to be going to a movie in the first place. Â Sorry, Mr. Obama.
Having been a teacher for a number of years, it is always amazing the variety of excuses that students will come up with to defend cheating. This is not based on an actual instance–those would be far too bizarre even for a bizarre comic strip. However, it cuts to the core defense many like to fall back on now–something vaguely legal/technical they’ve read in passing while on the Internet. These are always the best defenses in life.
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