Reasons to be suspicious of surprise inheritances and magic money-cleansing chemicals
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
Going for the burn…
Botheration’s Quote of the Week cuts through smug anti-intellectualism to a stark nugget of truth about the condition of English cricket…
Entropa: The best public art installation in the world, ever
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.
Apposite
At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which we lose our ownership of it – Yukio Mishima
The conversations geeks have
How CSS has the cure for cancer, the solution to war in the Middle East, and fixes for any other social ills you care to name…
What I'm reading: 12/01/2009
What I’m reading online today – if you like what you see, add me to your Delicious network…
"Vigilers are people who take care"
The story of a group of people in Boston, in the US, who faced the closure of their Catholic parish church and began a pretty much spontaneous vigil to ensure the local archdiocese isn’t able to shut it for good and sell off the land. What’s so interesting about this is the positive effect that this adversity has produced.
