The folks at Games Radar decided to reshoot the title sequence for the movie The Naked Gun using clips from Grand Theft Auto IV.
And in the spirit of the current political season, the makers of Saints Row 2 [coming later this year] offers the following clip that compares and contrasts their product with GTA IV. Mmm...sewage trucks.
So, I received a Spanish languange campaign flyer in the mail today from the Santa Ana (CA) Unified School District encouraging me to vote "sí en la Proposición G." Let us, for a moment, overlook the fact that I do not habla Español. I do, however, habla basic math. Heck, I even passed college calculus (albeit on my sixth attempt). So you can imagine my surprise when I saw the following image on the flyer:
Notice something strange? Here, let me zoom in for you.
From what I can gather, Proposición G proposes to repeal the Pythagorean theorem in Santa Ana.
Heck, how could anyone oppose that?
Thank you for contacting BeachBoard Services. We regret to inform you that are unable to restore your Fall 1980 courses to BeachBoard because the University did not use BeachBoard that semester. In fact, neither the personal computer (introduced in 1981), nor the modern web browser (introduced in 1993), nor the Blackboard software (introduced in 1997) that powers BeachBoard (introduced in 2000) existed in 1980.
If you would like to see the grades that you received from the courses you took 28 years ago ...
For the past five years I have been a daily reader of Drew Curtis' Fark.com,
a community website ... allowing users to comment on a daily batch of news articles and other items from various websites. Links are submitted by Fark members, which are then approved for posting on the main page ("greenlit") by administrators. All links, approved or not, have threads associated with them where users can comment on the link. (Source: Wikipedia)
In addition to posting links to various weird and interesting news articles and websites, Fark members write pithy, one- or two-sentence summaries that are often more interesting—and significantly funnier—than the links themselves. To see what I mean, check out http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3301587 to see the winners of Fark’s 2007 headline of the year award.
A few of my favorites:
Videos like the following make me thankful that the Internet exists.
As an alumnus of the University of Alabama, I did not think it was possible for me to hate the song "Rocky Top" any more than I already do.
I was wrong.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Sunday, December 16, was a bad day to be a school administrator. First, a student at Big Springs [Pennsylvania] High School reported that he had received two hours of detention for using Mozilla Firefox instead of Microsoft Internet Explorer. The student even posted an image of his detention slip complete with the school's telephone number, address, and the names of the school's administrators [click the image to enlarge]:
The story made it to the front pages of Digg and Slashdot ... and the high school's email servers and switchboard quickly experienced the wrath of many angry netizens. [See "Slashdot effect."] There was only one problem: the story was a hoax. In response to the deluge of angry messages, the high school's principal announced that
The uploaded letter was an altered version of a detention letter sent to a student. ... The Big Spring School District does have confirmation that the discipline letter was altered. ... The reports, blogs and other sources on the Internet indicating that a Big Spring student was assigned detention for using the Firefox internet browser instead of Internet Explorer are untrue and were based on the fake letter. Detention is assigned in our schools after appropriate warnings are given. If students continue to engage in non-academic activities or fail to follow a teacher’s directive during class time, discipline can and will be assigned.
You can read the principal's full press release at http://www.bigspring.k12.pa.us/news.php?action=view_article&article_id=2130
Later that night, another administrator a little further up the road was also visited by the ghost of bad publicity. On the finale of the CBS television show Survivor China, contestant Denise Martin announced that her school district demoted her from lunch lady to janitor following her return from China. Survivor producer Mark Burnett was so moved by Martin's story that he offered Martin $50,000 to "help get her life back."
What Martin neglected to mention is that, prior to leaving to tape the show in China, she had sought and received a promotion from cafeteria employee to full-time custodian. According to a statement from the superintendent of schools,
This promotion came with additional benefits and a higher salary. Following her leave, she then returned to this same position. ... Regretfully, the Douglas Public School District was inaccurately portrayed as failing to be accommodating to an employee during what the District viewed as a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity. This is far from the case. On the contrary, we granted all requests made by Mrs. Martin so that she could participate in the “Survivor” series. Since Mrs. Martin was on an approved leave, her position was held open for her, and she returned to this same position upon her return from China.
You can read the complete press release or, better still, check out the CBS News video in which Martin answers to Nancy Lane, the superintendent of Douglas Public Schools [Massachusetts].
I don't know if I want to live in a world where you cannot trust a high school student or lunch lady/janitor.
