Credit Card Scam
Source: Carol Bentley’s blog. Read about a very elaborate credit card scam when they already have all your data, including your card number… except the little PIN code on the reverse of the card. Don’t fall for this trick!
Archive for the 'Asides' Category
The Google-stein
Source: Blog Gigs, Who created the Google-stein? i.e. the frankenstein of the net? - We did, all together. Yes, I remember, too, when G. was just the very new guy a few years ago…
The irate ex-student
Source iknownil: He is right. The students are in debt for many years, the government workers are overpaid and they rarely are up to their tasks, the taxes are high. Very high. I even wanted to comment on his blog but I never do that if the stupid “you …
You are fat because you eat a lot!
Source: Telegrahp Blogs. If it is politically correct to judge those that smoke, drin or use drugs… why is not OK to pick on the obese? - asks by Sally Peck. “Just eat less” is the final common sense message.
Lenin and DiCaprio
Source: English Russia. If you are familiar with Vladimir Ulyanov’s pictures from the period before he became Lenin - you will be shocked by the similarities between the young Lenin and Leonardo (Leninardo?) DiCaprio… See it for yourself!
Green funeral movement
Source: Associated Content - Did you know that the amount of wood from coffins located in a ten-acre cemetery is enough to build 40 houses and that there is enough concrete to build swimming pools for all of them? If you didn’t now you know… and you may even …
Make money surfing the net
AGLOCO: is claiming (promising?) to enable you to own the internet. This is what they say: Advertisers, search providers, and online retailers are paying billions to reach you while you surf. How much of that money are you getting? If they will be successful - you might earn some …
Simplicity vs. complexity in design
Don Norman: Logic and reason are wonderful virtues, but they are irrelevant in describing human behavior. Trying to prove a point through intelligent, reasonable argumentation is what I call the “engineer’s fallacy.” (Also, the economist’s fallacy.”) We have to design for the way people really behave, not as …
Who needs the books?
Jon Swift: This guy deserves his pen name - an excellent article about libraries throwing out the boring classic books. You want some names? - Aristotle, Faulkner, Hemingway, Kerouac, Pasternak, Proust, Bronte, Marlowe, Solzhenitsyn, Harper Lee…
Your computer guilty of global warming
Localcooling.com: Join the fight against global warming! The CO2 emissions from just 15 computers are equivalent in energy terms to the gas consumption used by one car. Save computer power, your money and the environment with a simple application… Sounds crazy but you can check it out!
Prairie Immigration
University of Manitoba: a digitized archive of the prairie immigration experience - you can browse it for hours…
Saddam Hussein is dead
Source CBC: Another dictator disappeared. That’s good. Too many people had to die for it to happen - that’s bad.
