What I’m reading online today – if you like what you see, add me to your Delicious network…

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What I’m reading online today – if you like what you see, add me to your Delicious network…

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What I’m reading online today – if you like what you see, add me to your Delicious network…

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Like the common cold, the advance fee fraud (or 419) scammers keep adapting to survive. Here’s a cautionary tale from The Register which seems to involve almost every trick in the scammers’ book

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On the verge of the unveiling, the public art project representing each of Europe’s nations as a pop-out piece from an Airfix kit, turns out to be not quite what the Great and Good were expecting. And everyone, absolutely everyone, has found something to be offended about.

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Just in case lack of daylight hours, extreme weather, worldwide recession, war in the Middle East, the march of government intrusion and Windows Vista’s impasse with your printer are making life hard to bear this grim Monday morning, here’s a bit of steampunk magic.

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This is one that the publisher of the below-mentioned magazine really should have seen coming: the so-called Chinese classical poem illustrating its cover is reputedly an ad for a Macau brothel.

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Something tells me that most of us would be better off not summoning the emergency services for hamster rescue – if we have no personal connection to trade on, that is…

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The moral of this tale? If contemplating breaking and entering – buy a decent belt.

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Football fever and dreams of World Cup glory have gripped Kazakhstan at a time of great national progress and development. Whether that can be translated into sporting success is another matter.

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Well, it looks like the insurance loss adjustor who claimed Steve Fossett may have faked his death made a seriously bad call.

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Here’s something that’s just too good not to share. Mourners at a Shrewsbury graveyard have got a little impatient at being told what they can and cannot put on the graves of loved ones. So they fought back. Do not click on the following link with a mouthful of liquid

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Particle physicists advise: live the next two days as if they were your last, just in case they are. CERN, the giant research laboratory in Switzerland that invented the internet and provided much food for thought for novelist Dan Brown, is about to switch on a new piece of kit that causes black holes.

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Sorry to be so intensely cynical about this. But I’m afraid I agree with the commenter on this Daily Telegraph story who says it looks every bit as much like a Dementor as the Virgin Mary.

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A previously unacknowledged earthquake threat to New York City has been discovered. But wait, there’s more. And it’s even worse news. The Indian Point nuclear power plant, in upstate New York, is sitting right on top of an earthquake hotspot.

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This was never going to end well, was it? Half-expecting something of Alien Autopsy proportions, I was quite disappointed that it fell apart so soon.

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Did the adventurer and explorer Steve Fossett fake his own death? This seems like an incredible question to find posed in a national newspaper, even in August. You feel that an editor would want some pretty decent sources before running a story of this sort, that is potentially so upsetting to the deceased’s loved ones. Yet, here is The Independent running just such a story. And it has some pretty good sources.

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This is one for anyone who has ever felt that a certain film starring Jim Carrey has a particular resonance for them: two Canadian psychiatrists have identified a new syndrome – people who believe their lives are a reality TV show.

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Here’s a cautionary tale about how a life of crime can be turned to the good. This forger of letters by Noel Coward, Dorothy Parker and even Humphrey Bogart has now found success with an original work telling her story.

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Artists Michael Townsend and Adriana Yoto, and six of their friends, noticed an architectural anomaly in the giant shopping mall being built in their town – Providence, Rhode Island, USA. As the project progressed, it became clear that this added up to “750 square feet of underutilized space inside of the mall.”

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