iTunes now offers iTunes U, meant to bring into one spot some of the courses, in podcast format, from the country's leading institutions, including MIT. Always wanted to know about quantum physics? That's the place.

This is seriously cool stuff.

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The hugely talented M@ has been quietly keeping a new blog (third time's the charm!) Finally, we can resume reading his precious little pearls of wisdom on das Web. He even made this charming button as a linkback to here:



How terribly sweet.

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Sometimes, you just need a warm blanket a cute picture of a kitten. In that case, Cute Overload is the answer.

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Feel like taking a break? This Wikipedia entry on Internet memes is the authoritative portal to the best time-wasters the interwebs of superhighways have ever produced.

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Cute web site where you can pretend to be Jackson Pollock with just a few clicks of the mouse. That's when you realize he actually had talent, and you don't.

via BoingBoing

UPDATE: Good things my readers do more due-dilligence than me... Turns out the dudes who did the website above blatantly ripped off someone else's work, with the dubious justification:

Please, try to understand the way we work at Neen: we consider all visual/audio material as everybody's property. It's more cool like that.

Fucking lame.

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OK, I think we can now say with a reasonable level of certainty the Brat has Adult ADD. His post on his visit to the NAB convention reminds me of Spongebob getting all spastic with techno music playing and jellyfish dancing the macarena everywhere.

What do you do when your mind is racing faster than your hands? My time at the NAB convention has my head filling with ideas faster than I can write them down in my notebook. As I write down some of my ideas they tend to spawn other ideas or thoughts on expanding the original idea. My friends that have been attending the event with me are also sharing their ideas as well. Of course I am trying to write those thoughts as well. But as I write a thought my mind tends to focus on what I am writing. As a result I have a feeling I am forgetting the ideas that were still waiting for their "download" Any suggestions?

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The Brat makes sweeping comments about how publicly funded research is slow and inefficient; gets a new one rimmed by his commenters (who he did not censor, to his credit).





Puts the "mission statement" of his site into perspective:

The mission of Brat Boy School is to provide the light that will illuminate for others the path that has been forged by the lessons I have learned in life.

PS: It's a slow blog day, so I go for the easy target...

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It appears the Brat forgot to renew his DNS registration. Where are we to get our daily pearls of wisdom?!

By the way, here's what you are redirected to after you post a comment (emphasis mine):

Thank you for commenting. The journal entries are only the start of a discussion and never the final word for any topic. I am extremely appreciative that you have joined this current online conversation. Your comments really are important to me, but is currently being held for moderation. This is to prevent the fringe elements of our society from posting comments that are not intended to further the conversation. These elements float around the internet with the sole purpose to harrass others, solicit their business, or encourage you to become addicted to online porn!

Brat Boy School has taken a stand by not allowing comments from these crazy loons or spammers to ever be posted on this website. Your comment will not be edited or altered (unless you have a potty mouth) and will be posted as soon as it has been moderated. I should point out that if your comment was intended to start some ridiculous blogging war it will be deleted. Blogging is the new media and its purpose is to entertain, inform, and unite users in an online community. Those looking for a fight or to circulate spam can find another community to visit!

Again, thank you for commenting! Perhaps you would consider visiting another section of this webpage or one of our sponsors while you are waiting for your comment to be posted.....

Looks like somebody's got the case of the Mondays. By the way, I think it may be the first time someone says "blogging is the new media" in earnest.

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I saw my first Trucker Bomb today. By the meatpacking district, on my way back home. Yum!

The little Bleached Republican Airhead uses some big words to make yet another deeply fascinating point. He directs his faithful followers to the USCIS Office of Citizenship so they know what's needed to become a legal resident.

Clearly the boy has no idea what it takes to become a citizen. With two Master's it still took a very good law firm 2.5 years to get me a Green Card. I somehow highly doubt meatpacking or migrant farm workers can afford $10,000 legal bills.

By the way, did you know? The former INS is now the Department of Homeland Security. Always makes me feel extra special when I have to send communicate Homeland Security because I'm an alien...

This is just completely retarded.

This little image the French newspaper Liberation uses as a tagline to their dossier on Italy is just hot. WHO are those boys?!

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Our favorite self-absorbed Republican gay blogger is at it again. This time, the theme is illegal immigration. He starts off his post with an intriguing statement:

llegal immigration is an issue that has been ignored for too long. The terrorism of 9/11 should have been the only reminder needed to place a spotlight on the issue.

I must have missed the news when they announced Al Qaeda had operatives in El Salvador and Guatemala.

He then goes on to claim that the reason some lawmakers want to effectively pardon a majority of illegal aliens is because it would be just too hard to enforce the law. He parallels that with the enforcement of copyright laws against the millions of people illegally downloading music. Interesting parallel.

Well, Ethan, the idea of the pardon is two-fold: first, you humanely cannot ask 11 million people, with families, that have been here, in some cases, for decades, to just pick up and go. It would also be non-sensical when you consider the economic contributions illegal immigrants bring to this country. A line cook or farm worker is more likely to be named Jose than Jason. So no, it's not really like the case of the teenager who downloaded the latest Britney Spears song illegally.

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Help me, I can't stop. Today Ethan has a plan. He will answer the myriad emails from his throngs of admirers AND get an ab workout.

Now that the emails have been recovered I am planning on working on them as long as I can today. This is also a day where I really need to focus on my body as well. So here is my plan. If you sent me an email I will answer it [...] Every 20 emails or so I am going to take a break and do an ab routine or some cardio. At this rate I should be able to cross off a few goals of mine for the day!

Some lofty goals, Mr. Reynolds!

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Behold, the wisdom of Ethan.

So the lenten season has started. It is a time of reflection, dedication, and renewal in my opinion. So that had me thinking this morning during my run. Is there anything IN DEPTH you would like to know about me? If so let me know and I will answer them during lent. Just to start off I will answer a simple question that is sort of in depth that is asked fairly often. The question is "If money was no issue what would you like to with your webpage?"

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Being French, I love to hate things. It's fun to make fun, and besides, it's our national sport. Which brings me to the Blog of a kid named Ethan, BratBoySchool.

For starters, it is heavily advertised on other blogs, and we all know how much I love that. The site itself is peppered with mini-shrines to the physical beauty of the boy, who obviously is a model of some sort. Poor thing will have a coronary when he sees his first wrinkle, and take the Ginsu away from him when he discovers a fat deposit! Commenting is restricted to "approved" commenters, which may explain why all the comments seems to be positive. He does love his readers, though, and went so far as to send every one of them, who requested, a Valentine's card. Aw.

Oh, and the kid's a Republican (although he's still in the Independent closet).

His entry today is a fascinating exercise of him comparing himself to Martha Stewart. Not in a joking, light-hearted way, no, he compares himself directly to MS and parallels her recent ordeals with his recent flu. Yes, flu.

I am still following Martha's lead. I've prepared a to-do list, a master plan, and have been setting priorities. This past month has had more setbacks than accomplishments but I know how to get past it.

I have to remind myself that if I stay focused I can accomplish anything I set my mind to! While my to-do list is daunting it is not impossible. [...] You guys definitely are the power that keeps me going even during the rough days.

Many of you know that I have a attracted a handful of people who would love to silence me. They would be overwhelmed with joy if this blog would just disappear.

Easy, Norma Rae/ Anne Frank.

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As an interesting follow-up to my previous post, case in point: Gawker. After sprawling to a blog-empire of a dozen high-traffic blogs, the company struck a content deal with Yahoo, while conspicuously not merging so that it could maintain its "edge" and "independence".

Hm..

Left is the Gawker Media logo before the agreement (thx Google Cache), and right, after the agreement. Surprise surprise, the definitely NSFW Fleshbot got dropped... Not up to someone's corporate standards, I guess?

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Blogs are meant to be personal and devoid of all mercantilism, at least in original intent. If advertisers are interested in your site, it's because the quality of your work has created somewhat of a following and your numbers, your stats, are high. Good for you. Helps pay bills.

What then of "personal" blogs that are put together with some snazzy graphics and logos, and then, immeditalely, advertised on other people's blogs? Am I naive to think that blogs should not advertise themselves but rather be advertised on? The work you put into your site should generate the word of mouth you need to get the magical hit numbers Blogads people want.

Maybe I am indeed naive, but it just seems to me like advertising your own blog is just vulgar. You're creating ads that basically say, proclaim even, "Look at me, my life is so interesting".

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The only person who ever gave me a signed piece of his original artwork and one of the most talented bloggers ever, M@, is back!



This time, he's in loooove and he and his boyfriend are really obnoxious about it. Expect greatness nonetheless.

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...how fucking tired I am of all these gay blogs talking all the time about g-d Brokeback Mountain?!

OMG! Two cute boys kissing on screen!

Get over it.

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