Splatterpunk...
Posted by spooneybarger Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:02:00 GMT
thanks to C for this….
But she is...
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:19:00 GMT
Janella Spears doesn’t think she’s a sucker or an easy mark.Besides her work as a nursing administrator, Spears – no relation to the well-known pop star – also teaches CPR and is a reverend who has married many couples. She also communicates with lightning-fast sign language with her hearing-impaired husband.
So how did this otherwise lucid, intelligent woman end up sending nearly half a million dollars to a bunch of con artists running what has to be one of the best-known Internet scams in the world?
Spears fell victim to the “Nigerian scam,” which is familiar to almost anyone who has ever had an e-mail account.
wait, wait…. my favorite part…
When Spears began to doubt the scam, she got letters from the President of Nigeria, FBI Director Mueller, and President Bush. Terrorists could get the money if she did not help, Bush’s letter said. Spears continued to send funds. All the letters were fake, of course.
MTV, how i love thee...
Posted by spooneybarger Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:01:00 GMT
MTV’s new video hosting site is apparently bleeping out the names of file sharing sites in Weird Al Yankovic’s famous 2006 song “Don’t Download This Song.” The opening verse to the song goes as follows: Once in a while maybe you will feel the urge To break international copyright law By downloading MP3s from file-sharing sites Like Morpheus or Grokster or Limewire or KaZaA Yet, in that new MTV version, the last line is “Like BLEEP or BLEEP or BLEEP or BLEEP” rather than naming the four file sharing programs
Murder! Not so bloody Murder!
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:41:00 GMT
A 43-year-old Japanese piano teacher’s sudden divorce from her online husband in a virtual game world made her so angry that she logged on and killed his digital persona, police said Thursday.
Eternal Sunshine
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:57:00 GMT
It sounds like science fiction, by scientists say it might one day be possible to erase undesirable memories from the brain, selectively and safely.Using a complex genetic approach, U.S. and Chinese researchers believe they have done just that in mice, but the feat is far from being tested on humans.
Study co-author Joe Z. Tsien, co-director of the Brain & Behavior Discovery Institute at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, says the “work reveals a molecular mechanism of how [memory deletion] can be done quickly and without doing damage to brain cells.”
The finding is published in the Oct. 23 issue of Neuron.
All hail the mighty county judge...
Posted by spooneybarger Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:49:00 GMT
this is so messed up, so lacking in an understanding of the internet or basic law that well, yeah… i have nothing more to say…
worried industry people:
http://www.gambling911.com/gambling-news/online-gambling-sector-awaits-kentucky-decision-092508.html”
crazed official press release:
http://governor.ky.gov/pressrelease.htm?PostingGUID={6930A5AD-8BF6-499C-A4DB-70A3544BFF7D}
Chinese invent time machine...
Posted by spooneybarger Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:47:00 GMT
use it to send press releases back in time…
A news story describing a successful launch of China’s long-awaited space mission and including detailed dialogue between astronauts launched on the Internet Thursday, hours before the rocket had even left the ground.
Stop abusing my statistics!
Posted by spooneybarger Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:25:00 GMT
Three hundred dollars’ worth of meals later, the young researchers had their data back from Guelph: 2 of the 4 restaurants and 6 of the 10 grocery stores had sold mislabeled fish.
The results of Ms. Strauss and Ms. Stoeckle’s research are being published in Pacific Fishing magazine, a publication for commercial fishermen. The sample size is too small to serve as an indictment of all New York fishmongers and restaurateurs, but the results are unlikely to be a mere statistical fluke.
Really? How exactly is that unlikely to be mere statistical fluke given a sample size of 4 restaurants and 10 grocery stores.
O wait, how about we also get into sampling methodology…
Nah,
really, if you are going to make a statistics statement or use statistics to back something up, you should have at least a basic understanding. Other than that, its an interesting article…
Power - wirelessly...
Posted by spooneybarger Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:41:00 GMT
Sweet, go check out Intel’s demonstration of wirelessly powering a lightbulb.
Delayed reaction...
Posted by spooneybarger Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:45:00 GMT
The Knights Templar are demanding that the Vatican give them back their good name and, possibly, billions in assets into the bargain, 700 years after the order was brutally suppressed by a joint venture between the Pope and the King of France. If the Holy See doesn’t comply, the warrior knights, renowned for liberating the Holy Land, will deploy that most fearsome of weapons: a laborious court case through the creaking Spanish legal system.
for adults only...
Posted by spooneybarger Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:41:00 GMT
yeah, yeah, like the wee youngins won’t watch…
Read more...numbers without numbers
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:07:00 GMT
but if true would be interesting. not that there is any way to tell… read the whole thing and ye shall understand… so sayeth the spooneybarger…
Small-town people of modest means and limited education are not fixated on cultural issues. Rather, it is affluent, college-educated people living in cities and suburbs who are most exercised by guns and religion. In contemporary American politics, social issues are the opiate of the elites.
one day son, your ass will make a fine revenue stream....
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:01:00 GMT
at first i was going to make fun of joe biden, then this comment ( one of a couple by the user ) caught my eye…
Simply legalize and regulate child pornography. That would protect children from being forced into it (like any of them REALLY are who are over 4 years of age), and would make a good revenue stream for some of these families.Also, they aren’t going to be able to find these ‘illegal files’ if they do something as SIMPLE as zip them and password them, etc.
Even with monitoring software… you can’t see what is in a file if it is passworded with a 50 digit/letter password made up of letters, numbers and characters like &.
'bout time
Posted by spooneybarger Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:12:00 GMT
A federal jury today convicted the former mayor of Newark, Sharpe James, of fraud for conspiring to sell city-owned properties to a former girlfriend, who quickly flipped them and earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits. The former girlfriend of Mr. James, Tamika Riley, was also found guilty. Under federal guidelines both could face about seven or eight years in prison.
Yes, I'm obsessed...
Posted by spooneybarger Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:57:00 GMT
Although we often think of evolution in grand terms — a lineage of fish turning into frogs, or monkeys becoming apes — the technical definition is more humdrum. It’s simply a change in the frequencies of different versions of a gene in a population over time.