K-State Collegian: dead tree only, plz

The online version of the Kansas State Collegian has become...I don't know what to call it anymore. "Embarrassment" doesn't encompass its awfulness. I was hoping that in moving to College Publisher, the online production would worry less about those ever-challenging aspects of online production (like HTML) and be able to concentrate on just getting a newspaper online. But Jesus.

Today there are two stories on the front page, neither of which can be called "news" -- your headlines are "Students must exercise caution when driving in winter weather" (which is also the subhead) and "Citizens can work to better society by admitting fault, taking responsibility" -- which is a goddamn opinion piece, no less. And that's all. No graphics (though yesterday's front-page graphic was a blown-up thumbnail with a terminal case of the jaggies) at all. It's pretty obvious nobody involved with the online production gives half a shit, which is a shame, considering how much work goes into the dead tree edition.

I don't know what y'all're paying the online guy(s), but it's too much.

Picspam, weekend edition

By my count anw still has 30 minutes of birfday left. Here's hoping it's spent well.

More picspam follow, but of course, be warned: contains cats. (Which is like stamping "Warning: may contain peanuts" on a can of peanuts, I know, still....) ( 43 pics below.... )

Ten seconds?

So apparently there's ten seconds of the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix trailer online.

Yes, this is what it's come to -- the trailers now have trailers.