Friday items: lists of mistakes, or at least distractions

Hello and welcome to both the end of the week and the end of the month (unless, of course, you're reading this well after I've posted it, in which case you're welcome anyway).

The aftermath of a recycle bin fire. I didn't start the fire.

Here are a few interesting things from recent times.

• This Cat and Girl comic about Skeeball. The punchline is that work and fun are an inviolable dichotomy.
• CV's of failures and anti-resumes. There's an NPR story about the concept but I think it speaks for itself (I didn't listen to the story so I don't know if they employ the term "curriculum mortem" or something like it). Maybe it's the career equivalent of negative data. Here are some examples.
  • Johannes Haushofer
  • Sara Rywe (a good student example)
  • Sam Lord
  • Monica Byrne (an author's example - don't miss the exhaustive data table)

It's difficult to find good examples of this but I have to assume it's because people don't like making their failures public knowledge.

• The Oh No Ross and Carrie podcast has been doing a full, er, rundown on Scientology. The organization is odd but seems quite tame in comparison to Ross and Carrie's other research subjects, like the PIHOP. I mean, they've been to some strange places, but Scientology just seems very expensive.