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What do languages *sound like*?
Having occupied myself with languages for most of my life, both professionally and by avocation, I’ve had the chance to learn a handful, encounter many, and speak with people about them all over the...
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From INTERPOL? No, I don’t think so.
Another scam email from Benin. These boys are busy. Subject: FROM THE DESK OF MR. MICHAEL DEEN International Police Interpol USA From: INTERPOL POLICE <interpolgeneralofpoliceforce@gmail.com> To:...
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An especially convincing Phishing scam
Here’s the email that came to me yesterday: Notice that it appears to come from “Paypal.com,” However, the original sender was 23.249.163.109 (if even that’s not spoofed) which is in Buffalo, NY...
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RTFM, and never trust the dealer.
Eight years. Eight years of frustration could have been avoided had I simply taken the trouble to read my 2007 Prius’ Owner’s Manual when I bought the thing. Now, I love my Prius. I hope it lasts...
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If Senators spoke at home they way they do in Congress
With thanks to the beloved Gluyas Williams. 1920. Not much has changed in the last 100 years or so… The Old Wolf has spoken.
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The Punt Gun – otherwise known as “dynamite fishing for waterfowl”
Matthew Quigley would probably have messed his pants had he been able to see this. Such a contraption seems to put his Sharp’s Buffalo Gun to shame, although it was designed for an entirely different...
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D’Agostino Brothers
Just a bit of random history about a New York icon, D’Agostino grocery stores. From New York Magazine, 1973 Vol. 6, No. 23 We had one right next door to our apartment building entrance on 85th street...
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The case against lead
“Mad as a hatter,” went the expression. Alice’s tea party featured “The Mad Hatter,” whose felting work involved prolonged exposure to mercury vapors, resulting in tremors, pathological shyness and...
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Another INTERPOL Threat
Another scam from Benin. NEVER RESPOND TO SILLY EMAILS LIKE THIS. If you are contacted out of the blue by someone who wants you to wire money by Western Union to anywhere in the world, it’s a SCAM....
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Do it yourself: Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
About 15 years ago I bought this Braun shaver, and it served me well for at least 15 years. The rechargeable batteries finally wore out, and I wondered if it would be worth trying to replace them...
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Please do not share from these 10 Websites or Facebook Pages
This is a condensation of an excellent article from DawnsBrain. I’ve summarized the ten here for easy consumption, but her complete article is worth a read. ☛ TL;DR – these websites promote...
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The Charmander Conspiracy
Take one Pokemon, one impaired dude (no judgment, mate, seriously – we all do silly stuff now and then), and a community of delightfuly batshit-crazy redditors, and you have an explosion of recursive,...
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Johnny Cash – Strawberry Cake
Saw this image float by in a collection of so-called “rare photographs,” and wondered about the back story. The Internet, of course, has its own answer for everything: But that’s not the real story....
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Stacia A. Hylton, what are you going to do now?
This is Stacia A. Hylton, Directorn of the US Marshals Service. This is a disgraceful scumbag, identified as a US Marshal, ripping a smartphone away from a woman who was recording police about 15...
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Malware download from “eBay GMBH” (German Ebay)
Clearly not from the German version of eBay, but posting this here just in case anyone gets the same email and Googles for it. Rechnung für [redacted] noch offen: Nummer 19879661 Sent By: Inkasso Ebay...
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“Boom?”
And therein lies a tale. The above photo, found at reddit, illustrates he beginning of the construction of the Empire State Building in 1930. The top half of the image shows steam shovels carving away...
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Dear Congress: In case you forgot, reproductive freedom is the law.
In January of 2015, Washington DC approved D.C. ACT 20-593, effectively modifying the Human Rights Act of 1977 to ensure that people could not be discriminated against for their use of reproductive...
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Phishing: Watch those URLs
Today in my Yahoo! mail account: If you click that “Sign In” link, you get taken to “http://www.oficinadentalpr.com/includes/drpbx/db/%5Bobfuscated%5D.php” which is apparently a dental office...
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Music: Chilling passages
If this were one of the notorious clickbait websites, the title of the article would be “Five Musical Passages That Will Give You an Orgasm!” But I have an elemental aversion to clickbait, so I’ll just...
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