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Best campaign ad, ever!
Amazing free application!
Mos def-initely.
This is definately definatly definetly definitely one of the best websites.
More on my plate.
So I am officially blogging for the Orlando Sentinel.
OK, so it’s their neighborhood blog for the UCF area. Hey, it’s still the Sentinel and it’s still pretty cool. So yeah, watch for more words on stuff from me, the eternal blabber-master.
I’m looking to start fires.
I love the Better Business Bureau
I’m in the market for a new camera. I plan on going the high-road and getting a digital-SLR, notable a Canon Digital Rebel XT (not the XTi, I don’t need that much camera.)
In searching and comparing prices I found this site that has killer deals on the camera, lenses and packaged kits that contain all sorts of goodies. Always of the “too good to be true” suspicion I checked out their policy page. It is mired in legalese and snake-oil salesman double-speak that instantly raises red flags to the smart shopper.
Then again, they’re prices are hundreds lower than Amazon.com and Beachcamera.com (another well-known camera site.) So I plod on hoping I can get my camera for cheaper.
One stop at the BBB website and it turned up this:
Nature of BusinessComplaints to the Bureau indicate that this company has a pattern of misleading and deceptive business practices. A majority of consumers report that this firm advertises low cost and new merchandise on its website but receive damaged or refurbished merchandise. In addition consumers are charged shipping insurance fees which change and raise the price of the item. Complaints also indicate that this firm uses high pressures sales tactics when consumers call customer service. Consumers report being pressured to make additional purchases along with their original orders, and if they decline and cancel their orders they are charged an arbitrary cancellation fee. Furthermore, consumers allege customer service representatives gave false shipping dates and tracking numbers.
Customer ExperienceBased on BBB files, this business has an unsatisfactory record with the Bureau, because there is a pattern of complaints, and the business has not corrected the underlying reason for the complaints.
The company's size, volume of business, and number of transactions may have a bearing on the number of complaints received by the BBB. The number of complaints filed against a company may not be as important as the type of complaints, and how the company handled them. The BBB generally does not pass judgment on the validity of complaints filed.
I love the internets!
Sorry fotoconnection, you’re not getting my loot! Back to the great search, though I think I will stick with reliable old Amazon.com.
28 years later…
It is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 2, 4, 7, and 14.
Twenty-eight is the second perfect number. As a perfect number, it is related to the Mersenne prime 7, since 22(23 – 1) = 28. The next perfect number is 496, the previous being 6.
Twenty-eight is a harmonic divisor number, a happy number, a triangular number, a hexagonal number,and a centered nonagonal number. Twenty-eight is the sum of the first five prime numbers, and the sum of the totient function for the first nine integers.
It appears in the Padovan sequence, preceded by the terms 12, 16, 21 (it is the sum of the first two of these).
It is also a Keith number, because it recurs in a Fibonacci-like sequence started from its base 10 digits: 2, 8, 10, 18, 28…
Twenty-eight is the third positive integer with a prime factorization of the form 22q where q is an odd prime.
Twenty-eight is the ninth and last number in early Indian magic square of order 3.
There are twenty-eight convex uniform honeycombs.
The atomic number of nickel.
Oh, and it is also how old I am today. Birthdays are weird.
Don’t wake Cheney!
When Parker Brothers decides to revive Don’t Wake Daddy, this should be the new version. The trick is to have a meeting on important matters of government service without waking ‘The Cheney,’ lest you be peppered in the face with buckshot and water-boarded.
While the president was briefing the cabinet on the wildfires, VP Cheney was caught “meditating.” Right.
Well gee, it seems Cheney likes to meditate a lot.
April 21, 2006
May 12, 2006
July 14, 2007
Crooks & Liars has some video.
Wow, there’s really no excuse for that. I know he is old man and all and being apologetically mean has got to me exhausting, but come on dude, save it for naptime.
Speaking of Dick Cheney, Frontline’s Cheney’s Law is an excellent primer on the long and illustrious career of our most powerful vice-president. It really digs deep. Watch it and be afraid.
Oh I can’t wait for January 2009.
Articles on deck and other miscellany.
I just dropped an article on the SCCC and guns on campus. It should hit the stands on Friday, which of course I will vainly post as well.
Friday I have the privilege of sitting down and doing an interview with ZNet co-editor, Z Magazine founder, activist and writer Michael Albert. Albert is in town for the Oct. 27th anti-war rally and will be speaking to students at UCF on a number of progressive issues. I have to admit that I will be a little starstruck as I used to read Z Magazine on a regular basis and still check out the website once in a while. I must maintain my journalistic integrity however and leave my bias at the door.
Oh, and I most likely have a spring internship at the Lakeland Ledger, a 65,000 circulation daily in Lakeland, FL. Even better this may lead to a summer internship at the Wilmington Star-News in Wilmington, NC, the paper I eventually want to work at. Both are New York Times papers so connections will be made. None of this is in stone yet though, but my fingers are crossed.
Look ma, I’m really doing it! Things are very awesome right now, bring on the news.
Fear of flying.
I don’t really have a fear of flying, in fact I love it, but these landings are ridiculous and I hope I never have to experience something like this. These two airports were runners-up on Foreign Policy’s world’s worst airports list.
Kai Tak International Airport (Hong Kong) – Closed in 1998
Princess Juliana International Airport (St. Maarten)
Yeah, no thanks.
Singapore, Land of Robots and Children
While researching an article on augmented cognition I came across this ad for Singapore:
Now the tagline is “Where great things happen.” What the hell are they trying to tell me here? That giant, transforming, laser-shooting robots attacking while children look apathetically at a Game Gear is a good thing? Those Iron Giant-wannabes aren’t exactly inviting nor do they make me want to visit Singapore. What they do is make me think that Singapore is after my energon and that we might need to keep an eye on them.
Can we say ‘Culture of Fear?’
Burning chili sparks terror fear
Firefighters wearing protective breathing apparatus were called to D'Arblay Street, Soho, after reports of noxious smoke filling the air.Police closed off three roads and evacuated homes following the alert.
Specialist crews broke down the door to the Thai Cottage restaurant at 1900 BST on Monday where they discovered the source - a 9lb pot of chillies.
The restaurant had been preparing Nam Prik Pao, a red-hot Thai dip which uses extra-hot chillies which are deliberately burnt.
Wow, this is truly amazing. Has the world become so scared of itself and reactionary that even spicy food can cause us to call out the HazMat suits? This is about as ridiculous as it gets and if things keep going as they are soon people are going to be afraid to even step out of their front doors. Thanks ‘War on Terrorism’ and knee-jerk reactionary media, you’ve made the world cowards.
Well, it’s a damn good thing that this sort of thing can’t happen here.
Self-assembling chair.
SkyNET can’t be far off.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s fabulous!
Hand-soap.
Creepy much? Soap shaped like baby hands from Vitamin D(esign). For the pederast-Martha Stewart in your family. You know, because it wouldn’t be odd to rub your pink parts with little baby hands.
Via boing boing.