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I don’t know if this is staged or not (is videotaping a class the norm now?) but I would think the best move for the prof would be to kick the kid out of the class, not smash his phone.

Reading books by email.

Why read books by email?

Because if you are like us, you spend hours each day reading email but don’t find the time to read books. DailyLit brings books right into your inbox in convenient small messages that take less than 5 minutes to read. This works incredibly well not just on your computer but also on a Treo, Blackberry, Sidekick or whatever the PDA of your choice.

(Thanks Anon)

My fans often wonder how I manage to paint such fine details in my paintings, and now I can’t stand the pressure any longer and will thus expose the among artists well kept secret behind that, namely the cat tail brush – and even how you can manufacture one yourself.

First you grab a cat, then carefully cut off the hairs at the tip of the cat’s tail. Make sure the cut is absolutely straight.

From Ask Men:

Prisons are society’s punishment. While the theory of incarceration remains similar the world over, the methods of enforcement can change drastically. The following is a list of the 10 most notorious jails on earth; they are the worst of the worst and the lowest of the low.

(via Digg)

A service which will send an anonymous email to somebody who is annoying you in some manner.

If you’re using the office microwave, COVER your food! Not only is your food spattering all over the inside of the microwave, but dripping all over the turntable. You alone are turning the microwave into a biohazard. No one wants to have to clean up after you, and your mess makes it impossible for someone to quickly heat their food, without having to first disinfect the inside of the microwave. Who raised you, anyway?

(via Linkfilter)

Jesus really got around.

A Japanese legend claims that Jesus escaped Jerusalem and made his way to Aomori in Japan where he became a rice farmer. Christians say the story is nonsense. However, a monument there known as the Grave of Christ attracts curious visitors from all over the world.

(Thanks Jabberwocky)

Chimps hunting monkeys:

When Jane Goodall first observed wild chimpanzees hunting and eating meat nearly 40 years ago, skeptics suggested that their behavior was aberrant and that the amount of meat eaten was trivial. Today, we know that chimpanzees everywhere eat mainly fruit, but are also predators in their forest ecosystems. In some sites the quantity of meat eaten by a chimpanzee community may approach one ton annually. Recently revealed aspects of predation by chimpanzees, such as its frequency and the use of meat as a political and reproductive tool, have important implications for research on the origins of human behavior. These findings come at a time when many anthropologists argue for scavenging rather than hunting as a way of life for early human ancestors. Research into the hunting ecology of wild chimpanzees may therefore shed new light on the current debate about the origins of human behavior.

I spent most of my weekend migrating from Movable Type to WordPress. Movable Type has been the blogging software behind Cynical-C for the last three years and worked fine for two of them. However after 3 years, 5,747 entries and 12,430 comments, it seemed that Movable Type just wasn’t able to keep up. Posting an entry and commenting took much too long and rebuilding the site when I changed the template was near impossible. Several people recommended WordPress to me so I thought I would give it a try. So far I am quite happy with it and have turned on caching so that they dynamic pages wouldn’t kill my server. I’ll probably have to do some more tweaking but it’s a learning experience so that’s to be expected.

If you are using RSS Feeds with Cyn-C, they may not work anymore. I’ve decided to do the RSS Feed through Feedburner which will still have full content.