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Top 10 Things You Never Want to Hear at Work

TCM31DaysTheme.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) Traffic light camera scam steals your identity. Traffic light cameras are annoying at the best of times, but while some people manage to escape the fines, most of us simply pay up without thinking about it or questioning whether the charge is valid.

Traffic light camera scam steals your identity

Tricky scammers are taking advantage of that lazy human tendency, making a handful of money and stealing identities in the process. Scare tacticsThe scam is simple. A no-good type picks your phone number at random and, once you answer, tells you that you have an overdue red light camera fine. The only way to avoid a significant late fee, a court case, or even jail time is to pay the bill right then and there over the phone.

The Summer Sun Celebration Needs You! Summer Movie Scorecard 2011. Lord Of The Flies. Fafhrd And The Gray Mouser. 10-targets-home-thieves-consumerrep: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance. As a teenager, Jessica Wilson rebelled against her parents.

10-targets-home-thieves-consumerrep: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

She refused to tweet. Parents are always looking for ways to position their children for success, from piano lessons to Mandarin immersion. In the Wilson household, that means encouraging the kids to express themselves on the Internet. Unlike parents who struggle to limit kids' computer use, Fred and Joanne Wilson want their kids to be comfortable with the latest in technology. The parents and kids publish a combined nine blogs. 20 Absurd Design Fails. Sometimes you’re driving down the street or walking up and down the isles of a department store and catch something designed so absurdly that the only possible explanation must be that the designer was pulling one over on us. From straws in cups that resemble a particular part of the male anatomy, to awkwardly phrased item names that brand you a pedophile and ad campaigns that make it look like there’s a bus driving around that sexually assaults its passengers, to a sink that sure looks like a toilet, to a very perverted Donald Duck, these unfortunately (or intentionally?)

Designed products, names, room layouts and ad campaigns sure make it seem like designers either don’t know what they’re doing, or are devious practical jokers. Slender Man. Those of you that are planning to share your 'stories' or 'opinions' on Slender Man will be banned permanently! Your circumstances do not matter in this scenario. Slender Man has already been proven by the original creator to actually be A FABRICATION CREATED FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT AND ENJOYMENT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

The apparent sightings are completely PHOTOSHOPPED and the videos scattered across the Internet are STRETCHES OF THE TRUTH. Any mention of Slender Man on this site willreceivesevere punishment and consequences. Once again, Slender Man was purely created as a FICTITIOUS CREATURE WITH NO REALISTIC SENSE. To hear the theory and story according to a team of Paranormal Investigators, please go to their website and their designated page. 5 Reasons Internet Access in America is a Disaster. Right now, I'm typing this column from a friend's shed.

5 Reasons Internet Access in America is a Disaster

At 1:30 a.m. -- it's 100 degrees inside. There is no bathroom. It smells like oil and gasoline from the lawnmower behind me. Why? Because Internet access in a large part of America is kind of fucked. THE PWOT HAPPINESS GENERATOR. I was reading through the Cheer Up Dave Thread and decided to do an article, a "cheer up anybody who reads it" thing.

THE PWOT HAPPINESS GENERATOR

I've been assembling little nuggets, little encouraging facts about the world, but thought I would open it up to you for entries. Entries will come in three categories. THIS THREAD WILL CONSIST OF NOTHING BUT ENTRIES: 1. Encouraging REAL news stories or facts. 2. 5 Reasons Life Actually Does Get Better. In the last year you've probably heard "It gets better" used as a motto to encourage gay teens who've been the victims of bullying.

5 Reasons Life Actually Does Get Better

This is not a rebuttal of that, because I am not an asshole. What I do want to do is expand that message to everyone that age, whether you have a bully problem or not. Online Freedom. Absolute Write Water Cooler - Calendar. Welcome to the AbsoluteWrite Water Cooler!

Absolute Write Water Cooler - Calendar

Please read The Newbie Guide To Absolute Write A publisher or agency using Google ads to solicit your novel probably isn't anyone you want to write for. @import url( Custom Search. The Onion - America's Finest News Source. 6 Children's Toys With Unintentional Penises from You're Doing It Wrong. 'I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel' Transcription by me (I didn't understand some parts quite well.

'I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel'

If you complete them, I'll be glad) :) The Girl: Do you believe in God, do you believe in the belief of Gods? Terry Pratchett: Hallelujah! That's gonna be quite an interesting one in recent month as you see if you followed the news. Do you mean do I believe in Jehovah? American Civil Liberties Union. Interview Without A Vampire: Bloodlines’ B Mitsoda. By Jim Rossignol on April 6th, 2009 at 7:30 am.

Interview Without A Vampire: Bloodlines’ B Mitsoda

Forever Young, The Tragedy Of Bloodlines. By Jim Rossignol on February 11th, 2009 at 11:54 am.

Forever Young, The Tragedy Of Bloodlines

5 Reasons The Internet Could Die At Any Moment. The Internet was originally invented to be a communication network that could survive a nuclear war. Ironically, the monster that grew from that idea known as the World Wide Web is actually very, very fragile. They didn't anticipate what the Internet would become--because they weren't fucking insane--and as a result, the whole operation now sits on a rather shaky foundation. #5. The Internet is a Series of Cables, and Cables Can be Cut. A List Of Fallacious Arguments.

Attacking the person instead of attacking his argument. For example, "Von Daniken's books about ancient astronauts are worthless because he is a convicted forger and embezzler. " (Which is true, but that's not why they're worthless.) Another example is this syllogism, which alludes to Alan Turing's homosexuality: Turing thinks machines think. Turing lies with men. The Oldest Trees on the Planet. Trees are some of the longest-lived organisms on the planet. At least 50 trees have been around for more than a millenium, but there may be countless other ancient trees that haven’t been discovered yet.

Trees can live such a long time for several reasons. Yautja Encyclopedia. Welcome to the revamped Yautja Encyclopedia! Please email comments. The Yautja are an extraterrestrial tribal species from the other side of the Milky Way galaxy and have been coming to Earth to Hunt for centuries, maybe longer - although Dr. The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts. William Cronon - The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature. The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature by William Cronon (William Cronon, ed., Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1995, 69-90; links to printer-friendly texts available at bottom of this page) Multiple Choice Games.

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