LEGACY POST: Scott’s Take

BMW Rocks

Yesterday BMW announced that it was going to be making two new films to come out in the fall. If your not aware, BMWFilms.com came out last year with a bunch of short movies that were made by BMW, about BMWs. They are, in my opinion, some VERY cool films. “The Hire Series made international waves last year, when it featured films directed by John Frankenheimer (“Ronin,” “Grand Prix,” “The Manchurian Candidate”), Ang Lee (Oscar and Golden Globe winner “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “Sense and Sensibility,” “Eat Drink Man Woman”), Wong Kar-Wai (“In the Mood for Love,” “Happy Together,” “Chung King Express”), Guy Ritchie (“Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” “Snatch”) and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (“Amores Perros”). The films were brilliantly cast with strong supporting characters played by: Mickey Rourke (“The Pledge”), Tomas Milian (“Traffic”), Adriana Lima (Guess model) and Madonna (actress/recording artist).” These are definitely worth the watch if you’ve got a fast internet connection.

turnitin.com

Turnitin.com scares me. Because of turnitin.com, the first thing that I think when I sit down to write a paper is, “Dang it, now I have to write it myself!” Well, that not necessarily a bad thing, but the stories that I’ve been seeing about students getting kicked out of the their universities because they were plagiarizing, and turnitin.com caught it, have been a little scary. I was led to believe that turnitin.com was all knowing, but apparently it’s pretty dumb. For my report on Oppenheimer, it didn’t pick up on any of my quotes from scholarly journals or books. The couple of things that it did get were really stupid. So, know I know, I have nothing to fear from turnitin.com, at least until they get a larger database. This is what my report from turnitin looked like. This is what one their samples looked like.