Distraction

I know we're all slogging away at the critical reviews, so here's some fun and on-topic links to hopefully inspire...

We have been invaded by screens - by Charlie Brooker of the Guardian

Are too many people wasting their time going to university? - yet another eye-opening discussion facilitated by Your Views, the NZ Herald's very own centre for stereotype-reinforcing, mud-slinging drivel

Here's one of my favourite responses, by kp of New South Wales:

"We would be far better served by having the whole system privatised and having Universities competing to sell their products. Employers would then be able to pick which course would suit their Company and the age of students would go up while an employer decided who he would send to Uni. Pass rate would go up as drunken student problems went down.

Just like democracry being a count of heads, not what is in them, successive Govts have counted the number of students at Uni, not what they are studying or how successful they are afterwards.

I can't see that our lives have been enriched by so many graduates in media studies."

Nice dig at the media studies graduates there!

and finally...

Kimberley Crossman's twitter page - if you've ever wanted to delve into the complex thought processes of the Shortland Street actress who plays naughty school girl Sophie Mackay.

"Learning scripts in bed IS dangerous . . . I have paper cut on my nose (don’t ask) . . . NOT cool Kim! haha"

"Just had to re-pierce my ear!!! OOOUUUCCCHHHHH"