A Peculiar Blog

I wonder if it’s really possible to make a significant ammount of money
in online shopping "cash back" programs. The idea is that you join a
program and then shop at their online stores and buy your apple
ipods and such then they give you cash back for your [...]

To people like myself who cut their digital teeth back in the glorious
days of eight bit computers like the Commodore 64, Apple ][e and the
Tandy Color Computer this story will mark the end of an era. It’s
becoming official, PC World has announced that when current supplies of
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I can’t help it. I don’t for the life of me understand why anyone needs Twenty Gigabytes of storage on their, are you ready for this? …CELL PHONE???!?!?!

This is positively mind boggling. What possible reason would a telephone have for needing 20 gigs of mass storage? watch movies? [...]

The first thing this word brings to my mind is a tribe of cannibals in a
jungle someplace dining on neighbors and any unsuspecting strangers that
happen by. Would you believe that in today’s world when people talk
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I can only say two things about this story….

Wisconsin
retailer criticised for anti-war e-mail (Reuters)

Reuters - A [...]

I just read a story that, to say the least, is absolutely heartbreaking.

The Blasphemy
Challenge

Brian "Sapient" is an average-looking 30-year-old [...]

I saw an interesting story today that was one of those ‘get started with
almost nothing and end up a rich guy wearing an absolutely impossibly
green necktie’ kind of things. I had never heard of Belisi.com
[...]

Houston er, Little Rock, we’ve got a problem here. A little matter of the truth.

Arkansas Senate Passes
Grocery Tax Reduction
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - The Arkansas Senate today unanimously endorsed Governor Beebe’s
plan to halve the state’s sales tax on grocery purchases, voting 35-to-nothing for
the largest tax cut in state history.

In this story we see what looks [...]

When I read this story about a Hamas member getting gunned down a few
hours after a truce went into effect between them and their rival, Fatah
I couldn’t help wondering why anyone, Hamas least of all, would be
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In today’s world, it’s a good idea to be prepared for a time when money
as we know it now is not worth enough to be useful. One way to do this
is to invest in precious metals. Rather [...]