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… but you can’t pay to support WikiLeaks. Wikipedia on the Klan: Today, a large majority of sources consider the Klan to be a “subversive or terrorist organization”. In 1999, the city council of Charleston, South Carolina passed a resolution declaring the Klan to be a terrorist organization… …In April 1997, FBI agents . . . → Read More: Pay for your Ku Klux Klan membership with Visa/Mastercard… If you don’t like being tracked (i.e. having advertisers being informed about which sites you have visited) when you are visiting websites, you can block some 20 or so ad-serving companies doing this (including some big ones, like Google, Yahoo and Akamai). You will still see on-line ads but at least you won’t get . . . → Read More: How to opt out of on-line advertising Accused file-swapper Jammie Thomas-Rasset was yesterday hit with a $1.5 million fine for downloading and distributing tunes by Richard Marx, Journey, Def Leppard, the Goo Goo Dolls, No Doubt, and others. Each of the 24 songs at issue in the case cost her $62,500. Meanwhile, the same offense in Germany might cost you . . . → Read More: Cultural difference
Increasing eBay problem – users don’t rate transactions any more As part of the preparation for moving to Spain in the not-to-distant future, we have been clearing out some of the things we have accumulated over the last 18 years in our present house, that we don’t actually use any more, and selling . . . → Read More: Poor manners on eBay
Interesting facts about the Internet Not only Africa is large (see the previous post), the internet is too. If you have 3-4 minutes, take a look at the slide show above (click on the screenshot to start it). The first internet web browser to be created was Mosaic in 1993, which is . . . → Read More: The Internet is pretty big too…  A lot of the rest of the world could fit in Africa If one thinks about it at all, then one tends to underestimate the size of Africa. In fact it is big enough to fit in most of Europe, the USA, Japan, India and China and then some. The US clothing store Gap Inc. has a new logo. Gap – old (left) and new (right) logos Unfortunately it isn’t well received. In fact there is even a website called crap logo, where you can generate your own logo in Gap’s new style. Perhaps I should give Keys Corner a . . . → Read More: Crap Logo Performed and choreographed by Suzanne Cleary & Peter Harding – perfect coordination and dead-pan expressions throughout. Brilliant! (Via AmyGeek) If you liked that, here is a earlier, more gimmicky, video by the same pair:
Development of the use of the name "John" This is an interesting site if you want to see how common your name was in the past, and is now. It is based on American data, so it’s no good if you want to get the statistics for names in other countries. . . . → Read More: How common is your name?
An egg-cuber from thekitchenstore.com There is no end to the number of unusual gadgets that you can buy for your kitchen. Dark Roasted Blend has a selection, with photos. You can, for example, get a slimline toaster that produces toast with smilies on each piece, a rabbit-shaped mixer or a roll-up microwave cooker. . . . → Read More: Quirky kitchen appliances |
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