“Capital One Made Me Different Loan Offers Depending On Which Browser I Used”
Inexplicable and puzzling. If I didn’t know that it was impossible, I’d say that their webmaster was playing a joke on them.
Archive of posts filed under the Amusing/Interesting/Appalling category.
Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
“Eight Days a Week”
Hyperbole? I would never indulge in it. Not in a million years.
The Definition of Ironic
Our young cousin has apparently had her Yahoo e-mail account hacked. We’ve been getting several spam messages a day purporting to be from her through it. The funniest part is the text auto-appended to the bottom of each spam message: Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com …
“Dress like Carl Sagan, impress potential romantic interests”
I don’t know about Sagan, but I apparently dressed geekily enough to attract self-described “geek groupie” GoddessJ. Fortunately, she’s taught me a little about fashion in the years since we met. 😉
“Decomposing Hamburgergate: Now with 100% more science!”
I thought I’d written about this before, but a search doesn’t turn it up now… there has been a lot of talk in the blogosphere about how McDonald’s food is so unhealthy that even microbes won’t eat it. But as appealing (and health-promoting) as the idea may be, apparently it’s pure rot.
“Genes are left-wing”
Damned genes and their liberal agenda. For political reasons they refuse to justify the conservatives’ assertion that they’re just better than everybody else.
“Ridiculous, constricting clothing — to the rescue!”
(I’m out of the office today, but here’s a bonus post to keep you amused.) A “thrilling tale of how massive Victorian skirts saved a female naturalist from being impaled.” “Thrilling” might be a bit of an overstatement, but it is interesting. Although if “impaled” is taken in an alternate vernacular context, that sentence might …
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“Boffins mount campaign against France’s official kilogramme”
I’ve mentioned the problem before, about three years ago: the platinum/iridium cylinder in France that is the official reference for the kilogram is losing weight, for reasons that currently baffle science. Any reference object is useless if it can’t be relied on to stay the same, so the science community is making a determined effort …
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“Science Tarot Cards”
A delightfully contradictory juxtaposition. GoddessJ is a science wonk who collects Tarot decks, one of these would make a perfect Christmas gift for her.
Weird Telemarketer Spam Call
On the twelfth of October, I received a very odd phone call. When I picked up, an obviously robotic voice said: ATTENTION: BECAUSE YOU ARE A PREFERRED WESTJET CUSTOMER YOU WILL RECEIVE A SPECIAL GIFT. TO ACCEPT PRESS ONE. Um… in the first place, I’m not a preferred WestJet customer. So far as I can …