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For all the times I’ve heard the Nokia ringtone in the movie commercials, I didn’t think anyone actually used it as their ringtone. So now, I’m sitting here trying to study and there it goes… Just like in the commercials. It’s amazing how annoying it is in person when you’re trying to get something done. It surpasses the annoyance of the movie version by leaps and bounds. LEAPS AND BOUNDS!

It’s like… I’m in my own commercial. It starts with me sitting here trying to study. Then I talk to the camera like “all I really want to do is study. Your idea of studying is different from my idea of studying.” Then I’m like trying to do the ultimate studying EVER and “If I pass, I’ll be a legend.” Then di-di-doo di di-di-doo di di-di-doo di deeeeeee. NOOOOOOOOO!!

Moral of the story, don’t use the Nokia ringtone… ever.

Apparantely our school president is a child molester. Or, if not that, a professor at Western Michigan University is bored of using examples with fake people. This’ll make ‘em listen up in class, eh? Craig has the official report straight from the guy who heard someone else say it.

( name changed to protect the… innocent )

hot hot atem: my professor just used an example for being charged with crimes, “lets pretend president baily was caught molesting little children in her presidential mansion”
hot hot atem: im pretty sure she is gonna get fired for that one

Isn’t the internet fun?

Link – Wikiversity- Your Free University

For the sake of this entry, “Genuine knowledge” will be defined to mean any attainable knowledge that is respected and valid for use in the workforce, further education, or elsewhere. We’re currently in an age where this knowledge is prohibitively expensive. To make sure the knowledge we gain is valid, we must pay people a lot of money to share their 10-30 years of accredited research and study. How do we know that they’re giving us good information? Well, because we trust that the titles after their name were given because they have proven their usefulness in a given area. Mr. Smith could be anyone, a plumber, a student, we don’t know for sure because the title doesn’t convey enough information. Dr. Smith, PhD, however, tells a completely different story. Somebody, somewhere, (hopefully an accredited institution) claims that “Dr. Smith” has proven to have knowledge in some given area. In fact, he has so much knowledge that the institution (that we hope exists) has staked its reputation of producing knowledgeable people into the world on this one man. If he goes on to get a job and it’s discovered that he doesn’t really know what he’s talking about, that institution will be less respected.

Where does the reputation of an institution come from? Is it something that takes a very long time to build up? Can a new institution sprout up and instantly become well-known and respected if they produce just one class of knowledgeable graduates? What if this happened… soon.

In the future, degrees will be attained without ever leaving home. Everyone will have access to the sum of human knowledge and everyone will be able to contribute to further it. In this flat earth, there are no barriers to learn. In the future, knowledge will be free.

Found this linked from slashdot. It’s some fun stuff. I’d love to have one of these things in my house to impress the ladies (though I’d still have to get the ladies here to see it somehow…) It doesn’t do much other than take pieces of itself and build …itself all over again! But that’s pretty dang sweet if you ask me.

I’m obsessive so I re-encoded the video to a smaller quicktime one that you can just click on and watch.

And if you really want the original one, here’s the link to that. (It even has sound too, somehow quicktime killed that part…)

click it