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Kindle 3rd Generation Review: Dislikes
This continues the review of the 3rd generation Kindle. Today, the dislikes. Read the likes here. Dislikes Having to buy a cover is silly, and a too-obvious attempt at nickel…
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Kindle 3rd Generation Review: Likes
Thanks to the generosity of M. Anonymous, I have a Kindle 3rd generation. M. Anonymous donated the Kindle, and wondered in an email whether I would be a crusty old…
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Top 10 Women’s Fashion Rules
As requested by Victoria, and several other non-male readers, here is the companion article to Top 10 Men's Fashion Rules. If you are, like most readers here, male, forward this…
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Scam Targets Anti-Apartheid Environmentalists Concerned About Climate Change
The headline boomed "CLIMATE CHANGE AWARENESS FUND ($900.000.00)". Even better, it was sent from the Nelson Mandela Foundation (nmf.unfccc12@att.net). Subject: Climate Change Awareness Fund. The opening line is a teaser,…
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Certain Oral Activities Linked To Intercourse Onset, New Research Suggests
I am thinking of changing the name of this blog to "New Research Suggests", for these three words begin most press releases announcing dubious "scientific" results. Whoever first thought of…
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A Depressing Day, With Some Hope
The election is over and, in large measure, the populace once more voted to continue voting itself funds taken from "other" people. Oh, sure, in some areas like Florida, the…
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Alcohol More Harmful Than Heroin Or Cocaine?
Belly up to the bar, boys. Have a snort! Reach into that pile of needles and raise them high. I'd like to propose a toast to Professors David Nutt [sic],…
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How Much Math Do We Really Need?
That title was lifted from a Washington Post essay by G.V. Ramanathan, a professor emeritus of mathematics, statistics and computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For my…