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Fri, November 27. 2009
“ The president is the head of just one of three separately elected federal ‘governments,’ all of which must agree for anything fundamental to happen, especially on the domestic side. That’s no big problem if your agenda is limited to cutting taxes, starting wars, kowtowing to society’s winners, and punishing society’s losers. But if you want to do something large and positive and disturbing to the status quo, the obstacles are huge.
— Hendrik Hertzberg, harpers.org, 11/25/2009 (via axinomancy) (via evangotlib)
Holy jumping george, this is epic. An hour-long mashup of Lynch music/images from his entire oeuvre, streaming on Vimeo, or in individual chunks, or downloadable as an album or a DIVX/DVD.
The more obvious pop interludes are a bit goofy, even if Jackson 5 works fairly well over ‘Falling’, but I’m not gonna lie: that opener with Donna and Nikki Grace crying along to Llorando which then works the blue light into the FWWM final scene gave me goosebumps a bit.
Tue, November 24. 2009
Bring da muthafuckin wet feet.
Case of the purloined term paper; when work is resold
Melinda Rieboldt’s kids were Googling her name for fun when they found it: A college paper she had helped write as part of a group project while pursuing an MBA. It was available on at least five websites that sell research papers to students.
Rieboldt, who graduated last year from the University of Phoenix in Pleasanton, Calif., doesn’t know how the websites got the paper, on the topic of global communications. Nor, she says, do her five co-authors.
“None of us did it,” she says. But they’re not pleased. The course was a lot of work, she says. Now, someone else is “making a profit.”
Rieboldt isn’t the first person to wonder if there isn’t something illegal about that. But with few exceptions, and for a variety of practical and legal reasons, term-paper mills have mostly managed to stay out of legal trouble, says Stetson University School of Law Dean Darby Dickerson. She notes in a Villanova Law Review article that cheating and plagiarism “are as common on college campuses as dirty laundry and beer.”
Seen at USA Today
