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Global Nerding, Mindblindness and the Autistic Planet!
2011-12-27 20:55:00 An Interview With AMD’s Charlie Boswell Every family has Christmas Traditions, how they start is often unclear, but whatever it is does become part of the festive season. For some inexplicable reason I have one. How it started is long long lost in the annals of time. But every Christmas Season I seem to do an ... More About: Planet , Global
Culinary Adventures ? Scotch Eggs
2011-12-27 02:43:00 Back in the 70’s a staple in the average British Pub was eggs. Of course the average English Pub was not your Denny’s 3am adventure. The pub was into beer not fine dining, if you wanted that, well there was a ‘Fish N Chip’ shop not far away. There tended to be only three ways of ... More About: Eggs , Adventures , Op-Ed
Firm Documents Increase In Holiday Cyber Fraud
2011-12-25 06:54:00 iovation is the leader in device reputation technology. They work to prevent all types of fraud and abuse on the Internet, including account takeovers, which occurs when your existing bank or credit card accounts are infiltrated and money is siphoned out. iovation also helps prevent new account fraud, which refers to financial identity theft in ... More About: Holiday , Fraud , Cyber
Protect From Holiday Phishing Shipping Scams
2011-12-25 06:53:00 A common holiday shipping phishing scam is a phony notice from UPS, saying you have a package and need to fill out an attached form to get it delivered. The form may ask for personal or financial details that will go straight into the hands of the cyberscammer. Often the email asks to download a ... More About: Holiday , Phishing , Scams , Shipping
Need A Last Minute Christmas Present?
2011-12-24 23:53:00 The clock is ticking, Santa is already traveling, but through the wonders of the internet, it is still possible to send that last minute present. An item popped into my inbox an hour ago. And I just have to share it There are people that are just very hard to buy for. They either ... More About: Christmas , Humor , Present
The Birth Of Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Luke 2:1-20
2011-12-24 22:10:00 While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people... More About: Jesus , Jesus Christ , Christ , Birth
New Yorker Cartoon Exposes Bias & Not Historical Realities
2011-12-24 15:32:00 It has been observed that often a picture is worth a thousand words. By this, it is meant that often a witty image can more quickly convey an idea than a written exposition. Another truism nearly as classic insists that the only thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn anything from history. A prime ... More About: Cartoon , Bias , Historical , Op-Ed
Book Review: ?Shock Wave: A Virgil Flowers Novel? by John Sandford
2011-12-23 21:26:00 Virgil Flowers returns in SHOCK WAVE and the read is a good one. This is the fifth novel of the series and this time he is chasing a bomber. Virgil is based in Mankato, Minnesota and therefore routinely covers the southern part of the state for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. He also goes ... More About: Entertainment , Shock , Book Review , Book Reviews
The Leiden university rankings
2011-12-23 13:17:00 You can see them for yourself here. You will note that the top rankings are overwhelmingly dominated by American universities. Leiden university ranks other universities in the following way: The Leiden Ranking 2011/2012 is based on publications in Thomson Reuters? Web of Science database in the period 2005-2009. Only publications in the sciences and ... More About: University
Marketers (and Criminals) Buzz About Mobile Tuesday
2011-12-23 06:21:00 Fresh off the most successful Cyber Monday, which turned into a Cyber Week or even a Cyber Month, spanning from mid-November into December, marketers and advertisers are now positioning themselves for a 2012 Mobile Tuesday. Forbes reports, ?Consumers are going mobile in large numbers, and the 2011 holiday season proved it. IBM Coremetrics recently reported that consumers increased ... More About: Buzz
Feast of the 7 Phishes 2011
2011-12-23 06:21:00 Every year at the Siciliano household, we have a holiday tradition based on the Italian Feast of the Seven Fishes, which is, as you probably guessed, a meal consisting entirely of fish. There?s lobster, mussels, clams, scallops, shrimp, smelt, and cod, all either fried or cooked in red sauce, spicy sauce, or white sauce. This ...
How the Mediterranean diet can add 3 years to your life? even if you don?t
2011-12-23 05:49:00 A load of old cobblers here. Difficult to know where to start but I was amused to read in the journal abstract (also below) that they got their results by using “a refined version of the modified Mediterranean diet index”. First you modify your index then you refine it to get the results ... More About: Life , Diet , Years
A Merry Christmas To All Of Our Readers
2011-12-23 00:29:00 Jan and I want to wish all of our readers a very Merry Christmas . 2011 has been an interesting year, I do hope that everyone has enjoyed reading our articles as much as Jan, myself, and all of our writers have enjoyed creating them. The title A Merry Christmas To All Our Readers is hardly original. ... More About: Op-Ed
2011 WWE Year in Review
2011-12-22 21:43:00 Drama. Intrigue. Excitement. These are just some of the words that reflect and describe the kind of year that WWE fans witnessed and enjoyed. The matches were spectacular, and there were many memorable moments. This was also a year where the company pushed several young talents, who were thrust into the spotlight, and it began ... More About: Entertainment , Review
Where is Internet Banking safety in India heading?
2011-12-22 09:34:00 Recently, a security specialist in Bangalore released a video in which he demonstrated how the Internet Banking System of ICICI Bank was vulnerable to a virus attack. The Bank immediately moved to send an email notice to the security consultant requesting removal of the content failing which a legal action was threatened. The action of the Bank ... More About: India , Safety
Debunking Myths about Gender and Mathematics Performance?
2011-12-22 06:16:00 There is an amusing paper in the forthcoming JANUARY 2012 NOTICES OF THE AMS (American Mathematical Society) which purports to show that it is only oppression of women by society which causes females not to do well in mathematics. The paper was of course zealous to rule out genetic differences but that does ... More About: Mathematics , Performance , Gender , Myths
How Much Fraud On Record-Breaking Cyber Monday?
2011-12-21 14:43:00 The Washington Post reports that this holiday season, Cyber Monday expanded into an entire week of record-breaking online shopping. From Sunday, November 27 through Saturday, December 3, consumers spent nearly $6 billion over the Internet, a 15% increase over the same week in 2010. During the first 32 days of the November-December holiday season, online ... More About: Fraud , Record
Proprietary Hardware And Systems
2011-12-20 22:22:00 I am irked by this trend. If I buy something, it should be up to me to determine its destiny. If I want to change an iPad into an IheatingPad thats my business. If I want to download music from iTunes and play it on my Comodore 64, that shoould be my right. If I ... More About: Hardware , Systems , Op-Ed
4 Tips to Prevent Auction Holiday Fraud
2011-12-20 09:18:00 Auction fraud refers to fraudulent transactions that take place through auction and classifieds websites. Either a product advertised may be misrepresented by the seller or the items sold are never delivered at all. This holiday season, as you seek out hard-to-find gifts and look for the best prices, keep in mind that not everyone out there ... More About: Holiday , Fraud , Auction , Tips
U.S. official Victor Ashe calls for keeping a radio facility capable of rea
2011-12-20 08:45:00 BBGWatch.com - December 20, 2011 - Victor Ashe, a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), has called for keeping open the radio broadcasting facility on U.S. territory that is capable of transmitting shortwave radio programs to China. Some Obama Administration officials want to shut down the last remaining U.S.?based international broadcast station located ... More About: Radio , Calls
Christmas, And What It Means
2011-12-20 02:23:00 Maybe I am just old and grumpy, maybe I am just narrow minded. But Christmas is Christmas! That thing dropping pine needles on the floor is a Christmas Tree, not a Holiday Tree. I mean no disrespect to anyone, but to me it is Christmas. I really don’t care what you care to call it. ... More About: Op-Ed
Leftist Factions Co-opt Rather Than Abolish Holidays
2011-12-20 01:13:00 For about the past two decades, those to the left side of the sociopolitical spectrum have made such a fuss over their hostility towards traditional American holidays and celebrations that the arising disputations have themselves become an anticipated aspect of the close of each year. It was claimed such festivities promote values so vile that ... More About: Holidays , Op-Ed
FBI Releases Crime Stats For 2011
2011-12-19 23:49:00 The subject of crime is one that always interests me. Wearing my journalist hat I tend to look at specific crimes rather than the bigger picture. Sometimes it is better to step back, to lose the focus on people like Casey Anthony, or Conrad Murray and take in the the whole forest not just a ... More About: Crime , Stats
Amber Alert Issued For 20 Month Old Girl Taken in Humble Texas
2011-12-19 21:08:00 According to the police a 20 month old girl, Savannah Scheideler was taken by her biological father, Gregory Vincent Daniels from the Chuck E. Cheese in Humble Texas , Sunday around 7:05 p.m. An Amber alert was issued this morning according to the Harris County District Attorney?s Office. The child is described as a white female that ... More About: Girl , Alert
Like Mao Said, Real Estate isn?t a Dinner Party
2011-12-19 03:43:00 Ho ho ho! On December 21st, the National Association of Real tors (NAR) will gift the nation with the true number of existing home sales between 2007 and 2010. The NAR’s inflated numbers were flagged earlier this year by CoreLogic, a California based data firm. When confronted, the NAR grumped they’d look into it. Sounding more ... More About: Party , Estate , Real Estate , Dinner
Coming Soon: Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
2011-12-17 21:09:00 I spend a fair amount of time talking to people connected with the movie world. They tend to be larger than life, and always entertaining. There seems to be little rhyme or reason as to how a movie comes into being, or what subject it might be about. Next March the poor unsuspecting world is ... More About: Fishing , Yemen
Orwell was Right - Big Brother Is Alive And Well
2011-12-17 19:19:00 It was around the mid 60’s that that I had to face the right of passage for virtually every school kid, reading George Orwell’s 1984. It was a gloomy picture that Orwell painted. Personal freedom had been eroded, people were mere slaves to the will of the privileged few. Unfortunately Orwell did to an extent write ... More About: Big Brother , Op-Ed
De mortuis nil nisi bonum?
2011-12-17 07:15:00 I am afraid I am going to disregard that bit of Roman wisdom. The recently deceased Christopher Hitchens has been rather eulogized in the press and elsewhere so I think the other side needs to be put. His virulent outpouring of hate towards Christians deprives him of any right to respect in my view. ...
Human rights advocate Reggie Littlejohn welcomes attempt by Christian Bale
2011-12-17 01:15:00 The president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers Reggie Littlejohn, who is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB), said that Christian Bale is a hero for trying to visit Chinese human rights advocate Chen Guangcheng who is kept under house arrest in China. Women?s Rights Without Frontiers is ... More About: Human , Human Rights , Christian Bale
DVD Review: Crossing Borders
More articles from this author:2011-12-15 23:40:00 A Film By Arnd Wachter The world is a very diverse place. There are great discoveries to be made, but few people take the effort. Foreign lands, foreign cultures, and foreign languages just seem to hinder the process. It is easier to stay within the boundaries of Disneyland than travel to some far flung country. Disney ... More About: Reviews , Movie Reviews , Review 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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