Very interesting design you've got there on your website, Mr. Brainiac. How coincidental that it looks just like one of the most astounding brilliant and captivating blog sites ever created. I dare you to look and see for yourself: www.utterwonder.com

Tell us Mr. Ken "Brainiac" Jennings - how has this happened? Mind you, that site design is over 2 years old. Are you smart but not so creative? Do you aspire to be just like C. Monks? Do you like donuts? Do you write fan letters to Star Jones? I think not, but if you do it's probably not to the same bordering-on-creepy level of C. Monks. But you see, that is where the creative genius comes from.

Get a little crazy, Ken Jennings. Find your passion and let it flourish - whether it's a healthy obsession or something that could potentially get you arrested. Let it flow through your veins, and then you will find the creativity you have been searching for, and so desperately need. And then get yourself a more original website design.

4. Respect intellectual property law in your posts here. Excerpts from copyrighted material should meet guidelines of "fair use." For example, don't post a copyrighted article in its entirety without permission; post a link instead.

Does this refer to blog designs? Because you totally ripped off C. Monks. Mr. Monks doesn't have much Mr. Jennings, he isn't a multi-millionaire, he isn't the god of all things trivial, he has never even met Trebek. However, he does have the best fair to middling blog this country has to offer. He makes a difference in the lives of tens of people everyday (excluding weekends and holidays). I only ask that you credit this man, and his web designer with the inspiration that allowed you to be a jeopardy champion. I ask you Mr. Jennings, where would you be without Mr. C. Monks?

yours(with a heavy heart)
-Cale

The obvious thing we have in common is our love for cmonks at www.utterwonder.com - your website looks just like his! Beware, Mr. Jennings! cmonks has a plethora of somewhat rabid and loyal readers. Don't hassle the C!

Does CMonks pay royalties to McSweeney's for his web design? Because the layout sorta looks like theirs, with the text running down the center and all. I think CMonks should blossom like a flower and find his own way. Or be like a butterfly. Or whatever bad metaphor will reach you mouth-breathers from his site.

BTW, I've never heard of CMonks until now, so he apparently is not that well known.

If you think that C.Monks created the drawing on his home page by himself, steel yourself for some disappointment. His "two year-old blog design" is actually a 150-year-old drawing. A wee bit disingenous, isn't it?

The image on Utter Wonder is actually directly copied from Gustav Scheve's 1855 work on phrenology, that most scientific of sciences. And while Ken just used the idea of mapping the human brain for the site (Brain... Brainiac... hey, relevance! Cool!), C.Monks copied Scheve's drawing, lock, stock, and barrel to use as decoration. Don't you think it's a little hypocritical for losing your minds with anger when two blogs are similar, but being completely okay with direct plagiarism?

Though, you all are to be commended for obeying orders well and coming over here to stir the pot.

MFalk, are you related to PFalk? Cuz, like, I'm a fan of Colombo. Like cmonk, PFalk is pure genius.

Drama Queen wrote:

MFalk, are you related to PFalk? Cuz, like, I'm a fan of Colombo. Like cmonk, PFalk is pure genius.

No, but when I was young I imagined him coming over and reading me S. Morgenstern novels when I was sick.

That's a low blow, MFalk. '' You know as well as anybody that C Monks can't render a true phrenological map of his brain because he lost half his skull in an embarrassing beach/exotic dance accident while on vacation in Acadia National Park when he was 13. That's why he has to use Gustav Scheve's map instead. Besides, most historians now agree that it was Gustav's half-brother, Tremaine, that created the first phrenological map (See Jeopardy episode #2445). At least get your facts straight before you level an attack.

Molly, I thought we made a pact never to discuss cmonks "unfortunate" accident. You know how sensitive he is.

The blatent disregard for an outstanding idea which has been around for FOUR years makes me very angry. You would think that someone as *smart* and rich as you would have people scouring the internet for already used ideas, which are portrayed much better I might add at other sites such as *ahem* www.utterwonder.com. Ken, your head doesn't even look real. You are such a poser. And maybe cmonks' image is copied from some lame ass phrenology book from 18-whatever, but before he came along, the idea was never digitalized. So there.

MFalk wrote:

If you think that C.Monks created the drawing on his home page by himself, steel yourself for some disappointment. His "two year-old blog design" is actually a 150-year-old drawing. A wee bit disingenous, isn't it?

The image on Utter Wonder is actually directly copied from Gustav Scheve's 1855 work on phrenology, that most scientific of sciences. And while Ken just used the idea of mapping the human brain for the site (Brain... Brainiac... hey, relevance! Cool!), C.Monks copied Scheve's drawing, lock, stock, and barrel to use as decoration. Don't you think it's a little hypocritical for losing your minds with anger when two blogs are similar, but being completely okay with direct plagiarism?

Also steel yourself for the shocking truth that CMonks copied Scheve's brilliant, ahead-of-its-time concept to have different parts of the brain change to pastel colors when one positions a "computer cursor" over prominent text links... lock, stock, and barrel. Also, the way he stole the 150-year old idea about placing a little "fig." number with a random digit next to it near said diagram. I do believe our little friend CMonks has been, how you say, served?

SPerry wrote:

BTW, I've never heard of CMonks until now, so he apparently is not that well known.

But it's perfectly okay for celebrities to steal ideas from non-celebrities and pass them off as their own. Really, who'll notice?

mollyb wrote:

That's a low blow, MFalk. '' You know as well as anybody that C Monks can't render a true phrenological map of his brain because he lost half his skull in an embarrassing beach/exotic dance accident while on vacation in Acadia National Park when he was 13.

You're right, I'd forgotten. How insensitive of me, and my sincerest apologies to C.Monks and whichever cranial bones he still can find. And to any other 13-year-olds who have experienced that insidious plague to our nation, beach/exotic dance accidents,

MFalk. Hello. My name is Indigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

KingWorld wrote:

Also steel yourself for the shocking truth that CMonks copied Scheve's brilliant, ahead-of-its-time concept to have different parts of the brain change to pastel colors when one positions a "computer cursor" over prominent text links... lock, stock, and barrel. Also, the way he stole the 150-year old idea about placing a little "fig." number with a random digit next to it near said diagram. I do believe our little friend CMonks has been, how you say, served?

I don't think this is relevant. It's still someone else's drawing. Javascript and pastel colors don't change the fact that it's someone else's drawing. Until you can refute that claim, or show C.Monks properly citing his source, I still say it's plagiarism.

SPerry wrote:

BTW, I've never heard of CMonks until now, so he apparently is not that well known.

KingWorld wrote:

But it's perfectly okay for celebrities to steal ideas from non-celebrities and pass them off as their own. Really, who'll notice?

I think SPerry's point was that it's unlikely Ken had ever heard of CMonks until your kind visit, either. Just because two people had a similar idea doesn't mean one stole it from the other; both are essentially based on the same thing from history. Ask Newton and Leibniz.



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Drama Queen wrote:

MFalk. Hello. My name is Indigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

I knew that having six fingers on my right hand was going to be a problem someday. And not just for finding a pair of gloves that fits, either.

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I think SPerry's point was that it's unlikely Ken had ever heard of CMonks until your kind visit, either. Just because two people had a similar idea doesn't mean one stole it from the other-- essentially when both are based on the same thing from history. Ask Newton and Leibniz.

Thanks for solving that mystery Mfalk! Everyone, we can go home now! It's a co-inky-dink! Don't we all feel sheepish now! Thanks to you Mfalk. We'll remember next time not to mess with a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Yo, I'm on your side, Columbo. I think appropriating a 150-year old drawing by a dead dude with no apparent estate to actively protect any sort of copyright is far, far worse than blatantly reappropriating a 2-year-old graphic design concept off the internet. CMonks is a bad, bad man who will do anything to be a superstar. And I mean, Ken is totally looking in the opposite direction on the front page, so it's totally original.

And I'm not stupid, I know my history. I know that the whole Newton-Leibniz thing is all the more remarkable because they both had access to Google, but neither of them once typed in "calculus." Amazing.

Our new friends remind me of, when back on the days that USENET still mattered, some random fan of the show "Earth 2" would drop into a random newsgroups and tell everyone how stupid everyone was for not liking this brilliant show. I bet several of these posters watched and enjoyed Earth 2.

Earth 2? Was that the series where people suddenly disappeared into the earth? Oh man, that ruled!

cmir1974 wrote:

Thanks for solving that mystery Mfalk! Everyone, we can go home now! It's a co-inky-dink! Don't we all feel sheepish now! Thanks to you Mfalk. We'll remember next time not to mess with a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Thanks for the sarcasm. It really brightened my day.

You go ahead and believe whatever you want to believe, and I'll believe whatever I want to believe. Such is free will. But you seem to believe that the people at Random House thought "What graphics should we make for Ken's website? Teddy bears? Flames? Pudu deer? Burritos? Hey, let's just rip off these brain pictures I found on this one guy's personal blog!". I find that implausible, to say the least. That's all I'm saying.

MFalk, you ARE the brood squad!

All I'm saying is Ken Jennings is a copy cat and C. Monks rules. That's all. No argument there. There should be nothing further to say really.

What's with this "Luke" SPerry guy?
"I've never heard of him so he can't be popular."
Well, Luke I didn't realize that you were the authority on what is well known and what isn't. Perhaps if you got out of your shell more, stopped torturing poor defenseless animals and listened to the gospel that is C Monks you might actually learn something.
You're living in a dream world man! And [i]that[/i] is why nobody likes you. That and the breath thing.

Lisa, autographed Star Jones letters? Dang! I mis-read. I thought this was for doughnuts! Oh well, never mind SPerry and MFalk. I'll leave you to KJ's droll, dry blog.

Earth 2 rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!