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School of Easy Knocks

School of Easy Knocks

Apple Announces iBooks 2 for the iPad, Aims to Weaken Students’ Backs

by Eric Limer | 1:25 pm, January 19th

As part of an education event in New York City today, Apple announced iBooks 2 for the iPad which will attempt to use tablet technology to make textbooks better and more interesting. Naturally, iBooks isn’t going to be dealing with straight electronic representations of traditional several-pound, text-and-image textbooks. No, iBooks is all about the bells and whistles. Bells and whistles like 3D images, video, and multitouch gestures. No word on whether any of this actually makes reading for class fun.

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School of Easy Knocks

Man Uses Legal Loophole to Buy $300,000 House For a Whopping $16

by Eric Limer | 11:13 am, July 22nd

Kenneth Robinson, now of Flower Mound, Texas, spent a lot of time with his nose in the law books and boy did it ever pay off when he could finally afford the $300,000 house of his dreams — with the $16 he had in his wallet. Now, the extent to which he “owns” it is a little hazy, but he’s certainly on the path to owning it, and without having to spend one more dollar. How’s that? Well, upon discovering an obscure and magical property law, Robinson discovered that if a squatter moves into an abandoned house, they have exclusive negotiation rights with the original owner. The original occupant? Walked away. The original owner? A mortgage company that folded. This perfect storm left Robinson in a position to eventually own the house by, no kidding, calling dibs by filing $16 worth of paperwork.

$16 doesn’t seem like a lot, mainly because it isn’t. Here’s a couple of other ways of putting it that make it seem like even less. (According to my shoddy calculations.)

  • Robinson purchased this house at 99.99466666% off.
  • Talk about pennies on the dollar. Robinson paid .005333333 pennies on the dollar. Or approximately 1 penny on every $187.
  • If he were to take out a 7%, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage out on the house, assuming its value was the $16 paid for it, his monthly payments would be a whopping $0.11.
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Over 200 Students Confess After Professor Uncovers Mass Cheating on Exam

by James Plafke | 2:53 pm, November 18th

University of Central Florida professor Richard Quinn found out a large portion of his students cheated on an exam in his class, which led him to perform a little investigatory work, supposedly discovered who a large portion of the suspects were, and gave the above fourteen minute lecture where he presented the class with two options: Admit they cheated and there won’t be a permanent record of their cheating, or be handed over to the university authorities and suffer the consequences. Not such a difficult choice.

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