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vAntiques Roadshow dealer is convicted for making bogus appraisals of items. It turns out that some of the appraisals were staged. Wow! If you can't even trust the Antiques Roadshow, who can you trust?
Categories: Entertainment
Posted by Alex on Sat Jul 13, 2002
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Dispute continues over the ancient skull whose discovery was announced Wednesday. Now critics are saying it's the skull of a gorilla, not a man.
Categories: Science
Posted by Alex on Sat Jul 13, 2002
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Apparently Chinese fans love the new Harry Potter novel: Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-To-Dragon. I can't wait for it to come out in English.
Categories: Literature/Language
Posted by Alex on Fri Jul 12, 2002
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The Russians bring us the Museum of Car Theft.
Categories: Law/Police/Crime
Posted by Alex on Fri Jul 12, 2002
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Very cool new crop circle found near Stonehenge.
Categories: Crop Circles
Posted by Alex on Fri Jul 12, 2002
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I once read a science fiction story that theorized that we never die. We just grow more improbable. Whenever we face a life/death moment, there is always a probability, however remote, that we could survive. In one universe we might die, but in an alternative universe somewhere that branches off from our reality the remote probability that we survive is followed. It was a neat theory for a science fiction story. This site has found a way to make money from a very similar idea. Just before you die, they promise, you will be sucked into the future by time travellers. You guarantee this by putting $10 now into their time travel mutual fund. Over 500 years that $10 will turn into millions of dollars, thanks to the miracle of compound interest. This will pay for the expense of sucking you into that future world. Somehow I doubt that they intend to keep any money given to them in a mutual fund for 500 years. But at least they give you a certificate in exchange for your cash.
Categories: Business/Finance, Future/Time, Websites
Posted by Alex on Fri Jul 12, 2002
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Fascinating update and background from the Guardian on Barry Minkow, famous in the '80s for his ZZZZ Best carpet-cleaning scam which he perpetrated when he was only 20. Served 7 and 1/2 years. I wonder if anyone from Enron will serve even a fraction of that time?
Categories: Con Artists
Posted by Alex on Fri Jul 12, 2002
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Truth and paranoid fiction becoming blurred in the modern world (Editorial from the Daily Pennsylvanian).
Categories: Conspiracy Theories
Posted by Alex on Fri Jul 12, 2002
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They're making a movie about the fraudulent career of Stephen Glass of the New Republic. It'll star Darth Vader as Stephen Glass.
Categories: Journalism
Posted by Alex on Fri Jul 12, 2002
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Be careful when you address the Imperial Highness in Japan. Amusing reference to possible verbal misunderstanding, from Japan Today.
Categories: Literature/Language
Posted by Alex on Thu Jul 11, 2002
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