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What universities should know

This is so true! from XKCD

The lure of procrastination

Phd Comics from the amazing mind and pen of Jorge Cham

in Academialand

A new brilliant adventure has begun in the Piled Higher & Deeper comic by Jorge Cham. Its called Cecilia in Thesisland: this is actually part two. The adventure begins here…

Danish Tourist Board Remix

Straight from BoingBoing but way to good to ignore Carsten sez, “My friend, artist Camilla Brodersen created a wonderful, freely-redistributable rehash of an old Danish tourist poster, highlighting the new situation after the new police powers, as demonstrated in the heavy-handed clampdown on protesters at the recent climate change summit in Copenhagen. My friend Amila [...]

Fear of flying

from the incredible Bizarro by Piraro

Its dead already!

An absolutely brilliant cartoon from BrownSharpie. Wonderful, it made my day!

Flickr down, the world mourns

Okay so maybe we aren’t mourning but we sure miss flickr. The amazing picture site Flickr recently passed 4 000 000 000 images. But today is unwell and is not available online. Here is news from the flickr blog post: Here thar be dragons… 10:05 AM PDT: We’re still here working on getting things up and [...]

The lunacy of security

Its been said before and it needs to be said again and again and again. But few will say it better than XKCD

Olympics threaten photographer

In what is an incredible attempt at Copyfraud and general corporate bullying the nasty International Olympic Committee once again attempts to use its power of intimidation to stamp on an individual photographer (via BoingBoing). On August 12, 2008 Richard Giles posted the photo Beijing Olympics Water Cube below onto his flickr account under a Creative [...]

Confusing apple

The Australian supermarket chain Woolworths applied for a trademark in August last year. Woolworths’ new logo is a  stylised “W” with a leaf on top, but apparently Apple thinks different (sorry bad pun, couldn’t resist). Apple has decided that it will challenge Woolworths trademark application (via Techgeek). Apple claims that the similarities could potentially confuse [...]

Vacation as relaxation?

PhD Comics by Jorge Cham