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Wednesday’s links are sexy, sugar-addled and shocked.
Professional Plagiarist: Some college students pay people to do all their coursework. One such writer speaks out on the causes of such pay-for-play cheating, and how it’s propelling incompetent students to graduation. (Chronicle of Higher Education, via Kottke)
Brainy Beefcake: Not satisfied with People‘s Sexiest Man Alive cover? Check out Salon’s Men on Top list, the thinking girl (or guy)’s list of hot, smart, entertaining men. (Salon)
Tech Rage: Ever get annoyed that your iPhone gets terrible reception? Don’t attack it with a hammer, because these guys already did it. Just look at their amazing photographs instead. (BuzzFeed)
Bakery Brawl: Look out, cake: Pie is making a serious play for the Fashionable Dessert prize. And just in time for Thanksgiving. (New York Times)
Funny Flick: The language is not safe for work, but this red-band trailer for medieval comedy Your Highness features James Franco, Danny McBride, Natalie Portman and Zooey Deschanel, and is hilarious. (The Daily What)
Fab Photos: The Beatles are now on iTunes, which probably doesn’t change how you were already listening to them. But look at some cool archived band photos! (LIFE)
Elsewhere on TIME.com: Suffering from royal-wedding fever? Get your fix with pictures of British royal weddings through history.
Must-See: Either Taylor Swift is a great actress, or she forgets every single past award she has won. Either way, she’s perfect at acting shocked every time she picks up a trophy. (FourFour)
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