The Organization that Bob is talking about here totally exists for real. The college I went to had a real Albino squirrel that lived there, named “Thelonius.” I even saw the majestic creature myself a few times. During my stay there, an organization rose up to help spread word about the Thelonius, who was rumored to give good luck on test exams. I’m not making any of this up, by the way, this isn’t a bit or anything.

Since then, I’ve heard Thelonius has passed on, but there is a new Albino Squirrel gracing the campus. I’ve also heard stories of lots of different albino squirrels running around various campuses around the country, granting good luck to test-takers everywhere, and I believe the society exists in several chapters on many campuses.

This storyline is dedicated to Thelonius, rest in peace buddy! And thanks for the A in economics!

Let’s be grateful I had the sense to end this conversation here, as, after the final panel, this conversation devolved into two hooded figures arguing about whether a halfling bard could win in a fight against… well, anything.

I didn’t notice this until after posting the strip, but I intended the two hooded guys to be facing each other, the guy on the right has his back to us… but depending on how you look at it, he could be facing us, because of how I drew the shadows. Obviously I meant this as an intentional optical illusion to challenge and entertain your mind, and it’s totally intentional. I’m just that good.

As I predicted in this story, Twitter is taking over the world and turning everyone into mindless internet zombies. Now I’ve got proof!

Most of my friends use twitter on a casual basis, including myself (plug: here’s my twitter feed) but I do have a few friends that claim to hate it. It seems like for a lot of people, having a strong opinion about social media is important, so the act of hating it, simply because it’s so widespread, is a way of… I don’t know, showing inner strength, or something. It’s also easy to write off social media as a symbol of decadent American consumerism, or a growing sense of entitlement, or a misplaced notion of extreme narcissism. While there’s a case for all of that (I personally think such arguments are overblown, but thats just me) I found this video particularly fascinating:

Now, the end of the video gives a link to the source for all their statistics. I didn’t go through and try to verify them all, but if these numbers are true, then… holy cow. Also, I don’t know how much these numbers are being adjusted for things like spam bots, and the like. Even with all that factored in, this is pretty interesting stuff. Although I think it’s less about “social media” and more about the internet in general. I think social media is one of many important by-products that the internet brings along with it. The idea of being permanently connected to vast sources of user-driven content gives us a change in how society works — social media is but one aspect of that, and I think there will be more such consequences of the internet that haven’t yet shown themselves.

I obviously find this kind of stuff fascinating, but I’m interested to hear what you guys think.