I should be working harder… nothing original, just some clip-art:

I was wandering around the Internet the other day looking for some pertinent information when I came across the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) official website. As with most government websites, this site tasted (if websites’ had flavor) like stale Styrofoam with the usual hodgepodge of ill-conceived site schematics and seemingly random design elements. Their site was uninteresting at best, that is until I came across their mascot for their kids section of the site! (Why a kid would be surfing the FCC’s website out of all the possible places on the Internet is anyone’s guess). Anyway, back to the point… The FCC’s mascot for kids, dubbed “Broadband,” was none other than Doraemon – the ever so lovable cat-like robot from the future! Or a shittier, copycat version of it anyway (huh, that’s funny; Word didn’t pick up ‘shittier’ as incorrect).

Now, I don’t want to completely jump the gun here so I will say this: it is possible that the FCC’s mascot just so happens to resemble Doraemon by sheer coincidence. It is also possible that the FCC had obtained the proper rights in order to copy the Doraemon character and therefore have a legitimate license to copy it. And It could also be said that the designer of “Broadband” simple knew of Doraemon and used it as a base to build the FCC’s mascot… oh wait, that’s practically the definition of plagiarism, never mind.

So yeah, basically what I wanted to say was that the FCC plagiarized Doraemon.

Sources:
Doraemon – Wikipedia and myself (used to watch it as a kid)
FCC – Half way down their front page you’ll see a link to their kid’s zone with “Broadband” or you can go and find him there directly.

Are they serious? Apparently their creativity knows no limits!

I recently step foot in a Toys’R'us (after oh, 15 some odd years) only to find this item on its shelves. I guess some kids really do want crap as a gift. You might as well go out and buy a real dust buster and have them “play” with that.

I don’t think this person quite understood the point of having handicap accessibility… and for all those wondering, no, this isn’t my car nor does it belong to anyone I know.