“Can Science Beat the Doomsday Hype?”
Short answer: not bloody likely. At least not in my lifetime.
Archive of entries posted by Head Geek
“Why the mainstream media is dying”
It’s hard to believe that this is the kind of organization that broke the Watergate scandal, among many others in years past. Sad. (Of course, it’s nothing I haven’t talked about before.)
“Feds: Top e-tailers profit from billion-dollar Web scam”
It just goes to show that no matter who you’re dealing with, or how trustworthy you think they are, it’s always a good idea to count your change. (In other words: “in God we trust. All others pay cash.”) 😉
“College students arrested for not paying tip”
The practice of putting a mandatory tip on the bill for a large party has been fairly standard for as long as I’ve been going to restaurants. But bumping this mandatory “gratuity” up to eighteen percent, as was done here and as I experienced myself a couple days ago, is ridiculous — I give servers …
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“Security firm chokes sprawling spam botnet”
The last paragraph is particularly heartening: FireEye researchers said the key to dismantling the giant ring was a coordinated effort that worked in multiple directions all at once so that bot herders didn’t have a chance to counteract. “As it turns out, no matter how many fallback mechanisms are in place, if they aren’t all …
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“Worst Finder Ever”
And to think that I thought that I was the only person with this problem…
The All-Knowing Spam Javalin…
Complete text of a spam I recently received: Get an omnipotent porksword! Omnipotent porksword?! Running out of synonyms, guys? 😀
“Natural Super Glue Found on Asparagus Spears”
Now there’s a food that’ll really stick to your ribs! 😉
“Real calculators modeled after desktop calculators”
And I thought it was supposed to be the other way around.
Phone Gripes
Why is it, pray tell, that every time we get a new phone number, we also somehow inherit one place that insists on calling it repeatedly, telling us that we owe them money? When we moved into this house eight years ago, we got two telephone numbers (a home line and a business line). We …