A Famous Person Has Died (Cartoon Parody of TV News)

The first few panels of a 12-panel cartoon. Thanks for the suggestion, Mike. Similar:Forgive and Remember: How a Good Boss Responds to MistakesI’m thinking about risk. When my twee…BusinessSocial Media Companies Aren’t Liberal or Conservative. They’re capitalist.Facebook cares more about scalability—th…BusinessThe Key To Better Work? E-mail Less, Flow MoreWhat the researchers found was that the…

Fall, 2009

LA100: Basic CompositionEL200: Media Lab and SetonianEL227: News WritingEL237: Writing about LiteratureEL266: American Literature I (1800-1915) Similar:Nerd siblings are awesome siblingsMy 15yo wanted to show me Terminator 4, …HomeSuch deep roots you have: How Little Red Riding Hood's tale evolvedDid all these stories spring from a comm…HomeWordPress duplicate images driving me crazy I’m using the…

The 2009 Lyttle Lytton Contest

My favorite “winner” in this year’s Lyttle Lytton Contest, which awards writers who can, in one sentence, imitate the infamous “It was a dark and stormy night” novel opening. Alex turned to Gertrude, in much the same way Martin Landau turned to Barbara Bain in the opening of Space: 1999. — Alex Dering Similar:Ice Cream…

Blender 3d Softbody Demo

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Secretary charged with changing daughter's grades

A high school secretary has been charged with illegally changing grades in a school computer system to improve her daughter’s class standing and with lowering the grades of two other girls. —Elanor Chute, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Similar:Let's conÅ¿ider Å¿ome Å¿urpriÅ¿ing old type: "Did you ever hear Å¿uch a wind-Å¿ucker, as this?"I Å¿hall always treaÅ¿ure the pleaÅ¿ant…

Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well

Big, two-dimensional drop-down panels group navigation options to eliminate scrolling and use typography, icons, and tooltips to explain the user’s choices. — Jakob Neilsen Similar:Students Are Using ChatGPT to Write Their Personal Essays Now: AI can replicate the shape …Students say they appreciate AI’s abilit…Academia5 myths about Facebook’s Messenger appReal journalism takes a look at…

Mind Your BlackBerry or Mind Your Manners

“You’ll have half the participants BlackBerrying each other as a submeeting, with a running commentary on the primary meeting,” Mr. Reines said. “BlackBerrys have become like cartoon thought bubbles.” Some professionals admitted that they occasionally sent mocking commentary about the proceedings, but most insisted that they used smartphones for legitimate reasons: responding to deadline requests,…