JJ Ramirez

1. The Let-Me-Tell-You-Every-Detail-of-My-Day Bore
2. The Self-Promoter
3. The Friend-Padder
4. The Town Crier
5. The TMI-er
6. The Bad Grammarian
7. The Sympathy-Baiter
8. The Lurker
9. The Crank
10. The Paparazzo
11. The Maddening Obscurist
12. The Chronic Inviter

North Korea’s craptacular website… designed with tables *shudders*

“Over the 12-year span, the report found 99 studies in which there were quantitative comparisons of online and classroom performance for the same courses. The analysis for the Department of Education found that, on average, students doing some or all of the course online would rank in the 59th percentile in tested performance, compared with the average classroom student scoring in the 50th percentile. That is a modest but statistically meaningful difference.”

They were most likely trying to spruce the place up because it looked dusty and boring. Should have replaced Babylon with a Six Flags America Babylonian Adventure, perhaps?

Human rights campaigner Natalia Estemirova was kidnapped and murdered this week in Chechnya, and a human rights group blames Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov for her death. Estemirova was seized from her home in Grozny, and her body was found Wednesday in the neighboring region of Ingushetia.