Web Monitor
16:26 UK time, Tuesday, 16 June 2009
A celebration of the riches of the web.
Web Monitor couldn't make decisions on what to put in the post today. Luckily, a new website is coming to the rescue. If you have an interesting link, send it by commenting in the box to the right of this page.
• an exquisite horror. He argues that the newest pop princess is actually pretending to be stupid, but instead is playing with the idea of femininity unseen since the days of Madonna's pointy bra. This one, he says is "a savvy media manipulator engaged in an elaborate, Warholian pop-art project".
• If you have problems making decisions, there's now a website to tackle that. asks tick box questions from whether you live in the suburbs or city to if you like bumper cars and based on that helps you make decisions on things like what you should watch on TV or where you can go on holiday. Web Monitor should watch Peep Show (and likes bumper cars).
• on a new campaign to fight diseases of the wealthy in developing countries. They say noncommunicable diseases that afflict the wealthy such as strokes and cardiovascular diseases now account for 44% of all premature deaths.
• Megan at the blog that the answer to global warming may be overpopulation. The reasoning behind the research from scientists at Cal-Tec is that if there are more people, more nitrogen is produced which in turn would cool the planet. The only problem is that for the plan to work, once overpopulation has saved the world, we'd have to start killing ourselves off.
• A writer of M*A*S*H, Ken Levin, is opening himself up to questions, any questions you have about writing a sitcom in his website . He says on his website that he's conducting this survey to find out what people around the world most want to know about writing television situation comedies, then he's going to conduct a 'teleseminar'.
• Uh, oh Web Monitor feels like it's been told off by the teacher. A few weeks ago we linked to a . Now the that lecturers are seeing more and more corrupt files replacing the old 'dog ate my homework' excuse. Inside Higher Ed state their agenda behind reporting on this site:
"Despite all the sentiments expressed about helping students avoid cheating, Corrupted-Files.com indicates on the top of the Web site that it would prefer not to be too well known, lest professors suspect. "Keep this site a secret!" the site says. In the interest of professors who may have noticed an uptick in the number of corrupt files they have received, we're sorry we can't oblige."
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