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Scientists find loopholes in the second law of thermodynamics. True believers in the possibility of a perpetual motion machine will love this.
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Categories: Free Energy Posted by Alex on Fri Jul 19, 2002 |
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Bogus coupons circulating through e-mail are causing a headache for Starbucks.
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Categories: Email Hoaxes Posted by Alex on Fri Jul 19, 2002 |
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On the subject of Digital Buddies (see below) here's a website where your online digital buddy can be a member of an LA street gang. His name is Pirate. Ask him whatever you want. You even get to see him type his reply.
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Categories: Technology, Websites Posted by Alex on Fri Jul 19, 2002 |
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Digital Buddies are fake friends who will sell you products online. They chat and make jokes, but they're just computer programs. From the LA Times (requires reg.).
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Categories: Technology Posted by Alex on Fri Jul 19, 2002 |
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For more info about the Nigerian Bank Scam, check out Douglas Cruickshank's article in Salon from August 2001 in which he delved into the strange, seductive poetry of the Bank Scam missives. David Emery also had a piece about them in SF Gate in March 2002, while Ian Kaplan has collected many examples of the scam. Finally, the Embassy of Nigeria actually has a statement on its website from the Central Bank of Nigeria warning people about the swindle.
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Categories: Con Artists, Email Hoaxes Posted by Alex on Fri Jul 19, 2002 |
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Wired also had a good article yesterday about the Nigerian Bank Scam, in which they interviewed a Nigerian student who actually used to compose the letters that were sent out to potential victims. The student says that the letters were purposefully designed to read like offbeat soap operas.
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Categories: Con Artists, Email Hoaxes Posted by Alex on Fri Jul 19, 2002 |
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Wired has an article today about crop circles, in anticipation of M. Night Shyamalan's movie Signs coming out next month.
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Categories: Crop Circles, Entertainment Posted by Alex on Fri Jul 19, 2002 |
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Normally I don't like to mention bomb hoaxes, since giving them any attention only plays into the hoaxer's hand, but this case seems to be an exception. A man, while clearing out his closet, threw out a fake bomb that he had once created for a marketing project in college. The next day his building was evacuated when someone saw it lying in the dumpster. Full story at the NY Times (reg. required).
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Categories: Law/Police/Crime Posted by Alex on Thu Jul 18, 2002 |
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The Natural History Museum in London is opening an exhibit on "Dino-Birds: The Feathered Dinosaurs of China." It will include the archaeopteryx, the oldest known fossil of a bird, which was accused of being a fake back in the 1980s. I wonder if it will also include the Piltdown Chicken fossil which fooled National Geographic two years ago?
The Museum of Forgery: a nomadic institution dedicated to the aesthetics of forgery.
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