Meme-tastic

"Take the nearest book and turn to page 123 and find the fifth sentence, then publish the next four."

OK.

That'd be Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, by a certain Mr B Anderson, which I'm meant to be reading for, oh, that thing that's due in NEXT WEEK.

"Nationalist leaders are thus in a position consciously to deploy civil and military educational systems modelled on official nationalisms..."

Oh GOD. I can't do it. That sentence goes on for nearly a PAGE.

via Dave the Scott.

(Who was reading something much more edifying.)

Internet v Thesis smackdown

The picture really is worth 1000 words.

Via Lifehacker (via 43things).

Cat fight

Possible other names for this blog, based on IMDB search for keywords teen prison break reform school girl:

-Space Rage: Breakout on Prison Planet
-Excessive Torture in a Female Prison Camp+
-Girls Gone Wild: San Quentin#
-Schoolgirl Report Part 3: What Parents Find Unthinkable
-Satans (sic) School for Girls
-Prison Camp Girls, Jailed for Love*

+Hong Kong's seminal Great Escape from Woman's Prison. Directed by Wang Gang - great name for anyone working in this genre, no?
#I made that one up.
*My fave.