Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Scambusting Through Internet: Reverse Image Search

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Image via Wikipedia When a photo arrives with a description, how do you know if it's really the item / event being illustrated? You us...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Fake Profiles in Online Services

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Fake Profiles are all over the Internet . It is almost expected if that half the profiles online are fakes. Facebook? Fake. Match.com? Almos...
Sunday, March 6, 2011

Proof that China is an Oligarchy, not a Communist Nation

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Someone did a tally of the National People's Congress , which has 2987 members. Taking the richest 70 people out of that group... Gues...

Stupid SEO Hacks: Mixing Languages

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Some websites try to hack Google by mixing languages. They put in content labelled as one language / encoding, but mix in content of another...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

Who Goes to Sushi Restaurant to NOT Eat Rice?

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Image via Wikipedia A self-proclaimed diabetic that's lawsuit -happy, that's who. A man paid for "all-you-can-eat sushi buff...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Shark Fin Ban is Much Ado About Nothing (and may even be racist)

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Image via Wikipedia Just today, there's news that a couple state reps want to ban "shark fins" in California . Assemblyman Pau...
Saturday, February 5, 2011

Here's my version of the Crap Detector...

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Cover of Ernest Hemingway The term crap detector was probably coined by Ernest Hemmingway , in an interview with The Atlantic magazine. Th...