Actually a rather dorky story, but I love the final quotes about the dog:
“He’s not usually very smart.
“He’s really dopey and just likes to chew socks.” –Choking dog saves its own life by dialling 999
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I won’t be showing this to my daughter. I might instead show it as part of a media studies unit, as an example of a self-made PR disaster. Update: I didn’t think that would stay up for long in its original location. Here’s a copy: An American child could go to a public school run by Pearson, studying from books produced by Pearson, while his or her progress is evaluated by Pearson standardized tests. The only public participant in the show would be the taxpayer. If all else fails, the kid could always drop out and try to get a [...] This is both creepily terrifying yet kind of awesome, in a drunk-whisperer, Pied Piper, passive-aggressive arrogantly Gallic yet obviously better than pepper spray and riot gear kind of way. You have encountered a “Pierrot de la Nuit,” or Night Mime. These “nocturnal artistic intervention squads” are officially being launched this weekend in 15 Parisian [...] War On Words: NYC Dept. Of Education Wants 50 'Forbidden' Words Banned From Standardized Tests « CBS New York. The article presents a list of what the headline described as “banned words,” and we see whole concepts and topics, including “Children dealing with serious issues” and “Computers in the home (acceptable in a school or [...] “If you strip out marketing and advertising from the Internet, nothing would be left,” says a worried suit, who seems to have forgotten about, you know, all that content. –New FTC “Do-Not-Track” Recommendations: Clueless? | PCWorld. Books | Culture | Current_Events | Education | Ethics | Government | Humanities | Literature | Rhetoric | SciFi | Weirdness Apparently there is an allegation this teacher read to the class from the internet some age-inappropriate material about prostitutes, but as I undrestand it, the school says it is responding to complaints about three books. In addition to a science fiction novel, a Schofield Middle School teacher now on administrative leave allegedly read excerpts from [...] Something I might want to do one day, before I go bald. Adam Bard shaves off half his hair and beard on opposite sides for unique driving licence photo And this is, apparently, the best they could come up with? FUD works when you have the advantage of power, or numbers… or, apparently, a still-hefty taxpayer-backed budget. “A refrigerator has never been hacked,” an announcer says in the first message as an actress pins a paper bill to her fridge. In the other ad, [...] Hey, woman at the 9-11 exhibit, posing for your boyfriend to take a picture as if you are running from the collapsing World Trade Towers is even tackier than your go-go boots and miniskirt. |
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