Today's Funny Excerpt from the Chronicle of Higher Education

Here's today's laugh - it speaks to me because I see this so often - the quick and honest way to deal with being late on something is to admit it and take the consequences, and sometimes instructors will actually grant you more time...but then, there is always the 'dog' to blame...

Here's the excerpt:

"Corrupted-Files.com, a Web site developed in December as a joke, its owner says, offers unreadable Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files that appear, at first glance, to be legitimate. Students can submit them via e-mail to professors in place of real papers to get a deadline extension without late penalties. For $3.95, the site promises a “completed” assignment file will be sent to the buyer within 12 hours, to be renamed and submitted by the new owner. By the time a professor gives up on the bogus file, in theory, a student will have been able to complete the actual assignment."

For the whole article, see: The Chronicle [daily-html@chronicle.com] for 6/11/09 'The Computer Ate My Homework': How to Detect Fake Techno-Excuses, by Marc Beja.