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Homeless bloggers

Digg recently brought a lot of attention to this blog, run by Kevin Barbieux—a homeless man with a laptop. I thought that, in light of the huge amount of misinformation and poor assumptions about homelessness and people suffering from it, it was worth adding to my blogroll.

I also added Norsehorse to the blogroll. Kevin pointed his site out as another blog run by a homeless man, who is described as “an advocate for the mentally ill homeless.” IMO, this combines homelessness with yet another thing that suffers from very poor general knowledge and false assumptions.

How to cheat good

I thought this collection of tongue-in-cheek guides to successfully cheating on university English papers was hilarious.

I think my favorite quote may be:

As a corollary here, try not to plagiarize the teacher. You will be less likely to suffer her ire, since it will amuse her and her colleagues to no end, but you are more likely to be caught. Steal her ideas and rephrase them in your own prose, because there is nothing teachers like more than knowing that students can write well but have no original ideas.

I found this post from Bruce Schneier‘s June 15 Crypto-Gram computer security newsletter.