Thursday, June 30, 2005
University of Virginia graduate students were caught cheating by finding answers online and sharing it with other students.
Some of the students may now face investigations by the institution's honor committee.
(Chair of the economics department David) Mills said that he expects that one or two students might decide not to return after the summer, rather than face an investigation and possibly the ensuing trial from the honor committee and expulsion if convicted. He said he did not expect a mass exodus from the program. But Steven Stern, director of graduate studies in the economics department, said he expected the attrition rate to be "on the high side." Still, he said there will be no shortage of teaching assistants next year, as there are plenty of graduate students looking to make extra money.
11:57:00 AM
Metropolis, Ill., seems to busy itself with Superman-related items, including a newspaper named the Planet and a 15-foot bronze statue.
Images of Superman grace the water tower and billboards, pointing the way to downtown. A phone booth in the business district is just for show -- it doesn't have a phone.
11:17:00 AM
Billy Corgan interviews with the Onion's A.V. Club, but the interview took place before Corgan's pitch to reunited the Smashing Pumpkins.
11:10:00 AM
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
The Philadelphia Inquirer looks into the recent spate of sex columnists on college newspapers.
(Ursinus College sophomore Lane) Taylor, 18, is one of a growing number of college-age 'sexperts' writing regular opinion and advice columns on any and all issues related to undergraduates and sex, from traditional treatises on the art of the first date, foreplay, phone sex, oral sex, and long-distance relationships to more eccentric exposes on nudism, funny fetishes, using food in sexual activities, and even the difficulty of opening bras with front clasps. Since the student newspaper sex column was pioneered in 1997 in a regular feature called "Sex on Tuesdays" in the Daily Californian at the University of California-Berkeley, such fare has become as common on campuses nationwide as Livestrong bracelets and cell-phone text messaging.
11:44:00 AM
Slave Labor Graphics has announced a 20% off sale through the end of June. (I better hurry!)
Their store is here.
10:29:00 AM
More dinosaur comics! This time it's over at The Pulse, where Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards: A Tale of Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and the Gilded Age of Palentology is discussed.
Ottaviani introduced us to his three leads. "O.C. Marsh, an heir to the Peabody fortune, is the first scientist we meet. A bizarre sight on a midnight train ride causes him to strike up a conversation with one of the book's many guest stars, and introduces Marsh in all his self-importance."
"We meet the second scientist, Edward Drinker Cope -- and don't you wish people had names like that nowadays?! -- in his Philadelphia home, where he's a bit riled up about Marsh's latest appearance in the newspapers," continued Ottaviani. "Cope and Marsh are still friendly at this point, so he quickly moves on to work with our third character, the artist Charles R. Knight."
Ottaviani added, "Knight is astounded by what he sees in Cope's house, and agrees to work with him to do a realistic depiction of an amazing dinosaur Cope has discovered. The results are an artistic success, but sow the seeds for the feud between Cope and Marsh that carries through the rest of the book." Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards is available to order through PREVIEWS now, the ordering code is JUNE05 2984. The book will retail for $22.95. G.T. Labs and Big Time Attic.
10:13:00 AM
There's a Napoleon Dynamite sestina over at McSweeney's.
9:56:00 AM
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Icv2 has info on IDW's launch of the Transformers, including a 99-cent issue #0. The book is slated for an October release.
There will be a Cartoon Network anime cartoon series soon as well as a live-action movie for 2006.
10:04:00 AM
This New York Times article has this sentence in it in the third graf:
"And even their extinction - once proof of thuggish inadequacy - is now a sign of mere victimhood: they were apparently wiped out in a mass extinction caused by a comet hitting the earth." (Emphasis mine.)
Except a comet is this:
: a celestial body that consists of a fuzzy head usually surrounding a bright nucleus, that has a usually highly eccentric orbit, and that often when in the part of its orbit near the sun develops a long tail which points away from the sun (Merriam-Webster) The word the Times should have used is meteor:
1 : an atmospheric phenomenon (as lightning or a snowfall) (Merriam-Webster) In outer space, it's a comet. Once it punctures Earth's atmosphere, if you will, it becomes a meteor. Once it crashes into the ground, however, it's a meteorite.
9:57:00 AM
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Dark Horse has a War of the Worlds ecomic.
8:57:00 AM
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Comic Book Galaxy has a review of Ojo.
2:16:00 PM
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Digital Webbing Presents #24 will feature the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Newsarama reports.
"The story focuses on Raphael -- he's on his way to deliver a mysterious package," Ed Dukeshire, owner and publisher of DWP explained. "Time is running out as everyone is counting on him, but then he's ambushed and outnumbered by Foot Soldiers." I'll check that out. Meanwhile, there's previews of previous Digital Webbing Presents over here, so I'll definitely have to check this title out, perhaps even monthly.
9:55:00 AM
It's ...
Drug cocktail to beat breast cancer
... time ...
Wyeth in 1997 withdrew its diet-drug cocktail fen-phen after researchers linked it to heart and lung problems in some users.
... to ...
Since last December, Ariq has been put indefinitely on a three-drug cocktail - up from his previous two-drug prescription - to better suppress viral attacks which can hit without warning. ... ban ...
The strategy consisted of a multi-drug cocktail. ... this.
Drunk on drugs, that's all I can think of. Mixture is just as potent and can adapt to "mix" in heds.
9:31:00 AM
Saturday, June 18, 2005
Read some of Silver and the Periodic Forces here.
9:38:00 AM
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Gas today: $2.28.
11:24:00 AM
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Action Philosophers sounds good. I'm going to have to check it out.
Creator Ryan Dunlavey talks about it at Comicon -- and about the all-sex special.
(Via NeilAlien; picture via Comicon.)
3:50:00 PM
Everything? What a contest! I don't think I'd have enough time to read it all, but I'd make room somehow. Enter by June 30.
2:34:00 PM
Flight will go to Ballantine Books, Newsarama reports.
2:02:00 PM
Friday, June 10, 2005
Drawn & Quarterly has a sale. No word on when it ends.
There's a few I'd check out.
9:47:00 PM
Thursday, June 09, 2005
It looks as if the Watchmen movie won't be happening. What a sad, sad day.
(Via Hit & Run.)
10:17:00 AM
Monday, June 06, 2005
There's a 10-page preview of Smoke #1 by Alex de Campi and Igor Kordey from IDW.
10:07:00 AM
A Three Kingdoms Movie? It's more than just fiction. John Woo will direct.
10:06:00 AM
Thursday, June 02, 2005
A Must Read: James Mann's 1992 Atlantic Monthly piece detailing why Mark Felt is Deep Throat.
6:17:00 PM
Bob Woodward has some deep background on Deep Throat.
10:12:00 AM
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