RIP Denis Twitchett and Doris Muscatine.
Month / March 2006
Plagiarism: Cracking Down on the Hard Cases
Plagiarism has found a slimy new instigator in the form of a ten year old Dutch girl. This evil little urchin, whose four ventricles beat of anthracite, a girl who only smiled once in her decade on this earth (just after pushing her babysitter fell down a stair well), handed back prize money from a children’s poetry competition just after eagle-eyed readers noticed that she had lifted the work of children’s author Francine Oomen.
An Amsterdam court ordered the girl to wear a bright red P around her neck until the age of 18. But until the P is forged by the great Amsterdam blacksmith, her parents are taking away her weekly allowance for the next two months.
I say, lock her into a dungeon for eight years and throw away the key.
Something Revealing Apple’s True Vulgarity in a Nutshell
Introducing the iGoatse.
I May Be an Internet Fiend, But There ARE Limits, People. Browsing Over Carousing? You’ve Gotta Be Shitting Me.
Carolyn Kellogg on SXSW: “As a group of us finished lunch, we realized we had an hour to kill before the next session. ‘Where should we go for a beer?’ I asked, standing up. They looked at me blankly. One checked his watch (it was 2:15 p.m.). ‘Come on, it’s SXSW!’ I urged, not realizing I was barking up the wrong network cable. Everyone demurred, preferring to get back to the conference hall, they said, to get connected to the Internet again.”