Please find me the guy who bought this

I spend some time traveling for work and end up on airplanes.  The worst part of the trip is the time from when they say stow your electronic devices until we actually reach the gate.  It seems that this part of the trip is longer than any other.   So in that long down time, I tend to read and reread SkyMall magazine.

They have weird stuff in there but the weirdest has to be this thing.

Big Foot the Garden Yeti

Bearman Cartoon: Twit Talks

So I am known (at least by the few of you that read this) as a Hack Cartoonist.  Well now I can add Hack Animator to my list of things.  As some of you have read, I have been working on some things for a new website called TheGloomers.  It has now in a soft launch that any of you can join and talk about things on your mind.  If you do join, make sure to comment and laugh at all my posts so I get lots of credit.

Anyway even before then I started working on my first animation that I thought would work well with the site.  Still working out the details on getting my animated/cartoon stuff shown there but thought I wouldn’t let you wait any longer to see my first effort called Twit Talks.

Be sure to answer the poll question and Tweet (or Twit) all your friends to look at and answer the poll question.  
   

Time Magazine: Facebook Users are More Stupider

A few days ago I lamented about breaking down with the masses and joining Twitter.  About a month ago, I got sick of all my friends sending me invites from their email list to join Facebook and finally did.  I don’t like feeling left out.

But even after joining, I didn’t become addicted.  I’ll check who has added me every so many days but much like Twitter, I don’t have much to say.  If I have something important to say, I tell people (or I write it here).

So now comes an article from Time Magazine that claims the one thing Facebook users share is lower grades.

The study, which will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association on April 16, surveyed 219 undergraduate and graduate students and found that GPAs of Facebook users typically ranged a full grade point lower than those of nonusers — 3.0 to 3.5 for users versus 3.5 to 4.0 for their non-networking peers. It also found that 79% of Facebook members did not believe there was any link between their GPA and their networking habits. (See the 50 best websites of 2008.)

Karpinski says she isn’t surprised by her findings but clarifies that the study does not suggest that Facebook directly causes lower grades, merely that there’s some relationship between the two factors. “Maybe [Facebook users] are just prone to distraction.

Now of course what catches my eye is how stupid are the researchers.  20 million facebook users and their sample size is only 219.    Now let’s say the researchers where just referring to the population of Ohio State University Students (60,000), the would need almost 400 students in their sample to make it more accurate.  But I go off on my statistics rant.

Bearman Cartoon: Top Movies of the Weak

OK…the drought is over.  As promised here is a new cartoon.   Looking at the top of the box office charts, the number one and two movies in the US this past week were the Fast and Furious and Hannah Montana.

What does it say about us?

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