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I am up early and doing a post. Why? Because I woke up at 4AM to read two readings that were due today in class. And after finishing the first one, I realized that I had no idea what I had just read. So I had to read it again. And after reading it again, I still managed to retain absolutely nothing or learn anything from the reading [note: this is for Global Issues in Design and Visuality]. By the way, visuality isn’t even a word and someone has yet to tell me what it means. This is my second class with the term ‘visuality’ in its title.

Anyway, so I’m up and giving up reading. I don’t know what I’m gonna do about this class because so far I’m really not understanding any of it. I know the gist of the class is supposed to be about design in modernity, but so far, I’m getting no sense of that in any of the lectures or recitations. Sigh. I’m blowing steam, I know (and getting nowhere). This class is kicking me hard in the rear. And with the upcoming presentation and project due next week, I know that I’ll be in for something incredibly rough. I don’t even want to crack open next week’s reading yet. I’m scared that I’ll be even more lost than I already am.

What a beautiful but heartbreaking music video. [via]

The video above reminds me of the one below that I’ve posted before:

I echo these sentiments exactly.

Since I just did it, why don’t you do it too? Test your internet connection speed.

Check out Wikipedia’s list of unusual articles (it’s lengthy).

This page is for Wikipedians to list articles that seem a bit unusual. These articles are valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, but are somewhat odd, whimsical, or something you wouldn’t expect to find in Encyclopædia Britannica.

Even more lengthy however is Wikipedia’s archived list of “bad jokes and other deleted nonsense”. Yeah, I didn’t make that list name up at all. This page even has its own acronym: BJAODN. Heh, that’s funny.

OMG. This is so horrible!

Microsoft sent this tape to retailers to explain the benefits of Windows 386. Boring until the 7 minute mark when the production is taken over by crack-smoking monkeys.

Hahahaha, oh my gosh. Hahaha, I can’t stop laughing! I have no words for this… [via]

Remember when I said that How To Cheat At Everything was my kind of book? Well, I’ve changed my mind. I took a peek at its insides and it’s definitely a book I don’t want to read or buy. It was just a bit too boring to me. Yeah, definitely don’t like that.

One book that I always see that I do want to buy is Aftermath, the photo collection of Joel Meyerowitz from the aftermath of the terror attacks on September 11, 2001. Amazon.com sells the book for $43.50 while most other retail outlets have it at regular retail price — $75. So Amazon.com may be your best bet if you want to get the book too.

Ha! This is the alley next to my church.

Oh goodness. Now GM is in the hot seat with their Superbowl robot ad that depicts a robot on the brink of suicide because it isn’t perfect. Read the following:

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention has called on General Motors to pull a TV spot in its “Obsessed with quality” campaign that depicts a GM factory robot that dreams it gets laid off and eventually kills itself.

In addition to pulling the ad from TV, the foundation has also asked GM to remove it from all digital platforms and restrict sites such as YouTube from posting the commercial.

Well, as of right now, YouTube still has it up online…so at least that much is good. Some people are offended too easily. That, or they read too deeply into some things.

Ok, so since I can’t keep my mind off of how screwed I am for this morning’s class (see top portion of this post), I am spending the remaining morning time updating. Great. Just great!