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An open letter: Dear Mr. Cumberbatch, I’m really, really sorry.
Sorry on a very personal level, because a person’s name is the icon and the symbol by which they are known all their lives, and it deserves to be respected. A certain man once had a dream that his...
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Please support our HeadFunder campaign!
I’ve written about the Academy of Greatness before. We have begun a HeadFunder campaign to raise the necessary funds to take the establishment of this unique school to the next level. Why Another...
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A repetitive Phishing Scam: Apple ID
Your Apple ID was just used to purchase TuneIn Radio Pro $3.99 Your receipt No.226816512 Your Apple ID was just used to purchase TuneIn Radio Pro from the App Store on a computer or device that had...
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Why you *never* click embedded links in your email
See that link to “Capital One” there in the body of the email? It will actually take you to an entirely different website that just looks like it’s from Capital One. Congratulations, you’ve just...
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“I’d rather get a root canal than do [X].”
I remember hearing this phrase many times when I was growing up, and always wondered why it was held up as an example of something to be feared. Then I had one. The procedure was not really that horrid...
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The Original “Glasses for the Lazy”
This image has been propagated all over the net by various content aggregators whom I will not mention here; I saw it in a collection of interesting tidbits shared with me by my good wife. At the New...
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The Garbage Disposer in 1951
Having mentioned the Kiplinger Magazine in my previous post, I happened across this article in the same issue, and found it a fascinating look back to the year of my birth, six years after the end of...
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I love the people of Chamula. *Belch*
Now, aside from several trips to the barrios of Tijuana to help build houses for Project Mercy, I’ve never been south of the border. So I can’t say I know the people of Chamula, a small town in the...
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Your Bank of America Account is Under Review. Right.
Well, since I don’t have one, that would be a Neat Trick. But here’s the email: From: Bank Of America <dugginp@pitt.k12.nc.us> Date:12/08/2014 1:39 PM (GMT-07:00) To: Subject: Your Bank Of...
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McDonnel’s Drive In, 1935
Not Mickey D’s, this was long before that concern was a gleam in Ray Kroc’s eye. Had to make a few edits when I found some updated information about the first photo. “Eat in Car” early drive-in at...
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Eating the Cowboy’s Best Friend
Original Caption: Women line up outside a butcher shop to buy meat in North Cheam, Surrey, England, on April 17, 1942 during World War II. (AP Photo) World War II brought rationing and deprivations on...
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Ersatzkaffee
I can’t drink coffee any longer, and haven’t since 1969. I used to consume it by the gallon, or by the thimbleful when I lived in Naples, Italy – lots and lots of thimbles. Back when “uno normale” cost...
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Consoles weren’t always so bad, come sit by the fire children and let me tell...
This lovely bit of writing by /u/OneYearSteakDay over at reddit really resonated with me, because I lived through it from the other side of the age barrier. I have reposted it here with the author’s...
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Is this the future of vending?
An article at The Telegraph talks about a new kind of vending machine that is starting to be seen: The world’s first vending machine with facial recognition technology has been unveiled, and it could...
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Another “Domain Registration” Scam
Here’s some junk email that showed up this morning: ATTENTION: IMPORTANT NOTICE Domain SEO Service Registration Corp. Order#: 780438 Date: 12/14/2014 EXPIRATION NOTICE DOMAIN: [redacted] Notification...
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The Next “Miracle Weight Loss Herb”– Caralluma Fimbriata
According to Wikipedia, caralluma ascendens, another name for caralluma fimbriata, is an edible form of cactus used throughout the Indian subcontinent as an appetite suppressant, or so-called “famine...
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Phishing: Watch the URL’s
Had this in my email this morning: Well, it looks official enough, and I don’t even see any major grammatical errors or the kind of Nigerian English that usually function as a dead giveaway for a scam....
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Taking the High Road with a Scammer
Photo: Alamy If you follow my blog, you’ll know it has become somewhat of a warning beacon against scams and frauds, which little crusade began after my own mother was scammed by cross-border...
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Don’t Help the Scammers
There’s an old joke circulating out there that occasionally crops up in people’s inboxes: You have just received the [Amish/Polish/Aggie, etc.] Virus! Because we don't know how to program computers,...
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How to get your senators’ and representatives’ attention on any issue without...
Seen at reddit: Protip from a former Senate intern, with thanks to /u/SomeKindOfMutant. This is worth sharing, since most of us are not among the 1% who have access to government: An email to your...
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