In September, 2003, I was blogging about

• What the NY Times called the “campus fad” of Internet plagiarism.
• “What Does a Professor Do All Day?” (Clearly we are wasting our time whenever we are not standing in front of a classroom.)
• “Graphic Artist Carefully Assigns Ethnicities To Anthropomorphic Recyclables“
• Leni Riefenstahl Dies (although she distanced herself from the Nazi party, her epic documentary glorified Hitler’s facism)
• Aaron Delwiche’s Livejournal account of a disastrous EverQuest session: “Warning: Do not follow strangers into Kithicor forest at night.“
• An outing with students for the “Labor of Love” day of service.
• Portofess, a confessional towed by a bicycle, designed by prankster Joey Skaggs. This was an era where old-school journalists often fell for pranks that would have been obvious if they had searched the blogosphere.
• Sporks are Godlike.
• Updates to my Mechanism Description handout (first posted in 1998).
• Big Idea, the producer of VeggieTales, files for bankruptcy. 
• Berkeley Breathed, creator of Bloom County, returns to newspaper comics. 
• Shakespeare’s “Hokey Pokey”: “O proud left foot, that ventures quick within
  Then soon upon a backward journey lithe.”
• Thoughts on language in the blogosphere (including terms that are historical footnotes, such as “link love,” “link whore,” and “fisking.”)