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I was so disappointed that I couldn't follow your link. You need to learn how the html for links on a blog post Correctly! Goes! You were probably planning to make some money off every click. Or maybe clicking the link would send someone to a malware site where you'd be able to steal some important information via a virus. I don't know enough about links to know which, but it's a shame that won't be happening. Sad to be you.
And why post anonymously? How can we have a discussion? How can I come to *your* blog and spam your comments about my jewelry in return? Surely that would be a worthy discussion...I'd be thrilled to put a link to my Artfire shop in the comments on every post. I bet with all your spamming you'd get a lot of traffic that I could piggy-back on for profit! Another lost opportunity for collaborative synergy!
You kids today. You just don't know how to spam like they did in the old days.
I think my favorite part of the email below is the convoluted grammar, odd capitalizations and reference to DHS, "The FBI Seattle Division in conjunction with the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Has screened through our various Monitoring Networks and has been confirmed and notified that the transaction you have with the Financial Institution is Legal and you have the Lawful Right to claim your due fund."
Doesn't everyone with an email address know by now that if the email says to contact a "bank" in Nigeria that it's a scam?
Oh, and regardless of the "confidentiality" notice at the end, I'd like to see them try to take action against me for sharing this with you - there were no addresses listed on the email, so the "intended for the addresses (sic) only" bit - kind of hard to enforce...
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NOTICE OF YOUR FUND APPROVAL
Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Seattle Division 1110 Third Avenue Seattle, Washington 98101-2904
Our Ref: FRBN/NY/PA/INV/2009
NOTICE OF YOUR FUND APPROVAL
This is to inform that you are eligible to receive the sum of $7,500,000.00US dollars regarding to an over-due Inheritance/Award payment which was fully endorsed to be paid in your favor.
The FBI Seattle Division in conjunction with the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Has screened through our various Monitoring Networks and has been confirmed and notified that the transaction you have with the Financial Institution is Legal and you have the Lawful Right to claim your due fund.
Note that the reason for not contacting you before now was that firstly, the bank is responsible for the payments and as such proper work has to be done to avoid beneficiaries loosing their money due to false claim by some people you are advised to follow the procedure of the Financial Institution. They have their own legal procedure which we have examined and confirmed legal.
To effect and carry out the directives given, you are advised to contact the Payment Systems of Central Bank of Nigeria:-
Sir. Charles Ferguson International Claims Officer Phone: +234 803 755 5341 Fax: +234 014 563 234 E-Mail: centralbankng@chinaren.com
Note all above information is expected within 24 - 72 Hours that from when you receive this mail, should you not respond means your approval will be turned down and returned to the Government treasury account as unclaimed Funds. Modalities of transfer will be avail to you upon the receipt of this mail.
Yours sincerely, Mr. Richard Blair CC: Federal Bureau of Investigation CC: National Central Bureau of Interpol ******************************
***************************************************************************** DISCLAIMER NOTICE: Information contained in this email is confidential and intended for the addresses only. Any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of this communication without prior permission from the addressee is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, please delete it permanently without copying, disclosing or otherwise using its contents, and notify the sender immediately. *********************************************************************************************************
I should be happy - it's an extra hour of sleep! Did you remember to set your clocks back last night (well, except for you folk in places where it never changed in the first place)? Good thing they do this over the weekend, I bet a lot of people forget and end up getting to places an hour earlier than they should...and who would want to show up an hour early to work on a Monday? ick.
Found this while "wandering around the Beadosphere", by which I mean reading jewelry artist blogs on my Google Reader page. From Lori Anderson's Design Blog:
"The Symphony of Science is a musical project by John Boswell designed to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form. Here you can watch music videos, download songs, read lyrics and find links relating to the messages conveyed by the music."
This video features Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye and is so wonderful - goosebump wonderful...
Have you seen the previous one? Gorgeous, thought provoking...
Billed as "3 hours of geeks and music", the show was 3½ hrs long and definitely had geeks and music in abundance. Also, "special guest" video appearances of Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi (being read by Wil Wheaton), which got a reaction of mixed laughter and applause, and Neil Gaiman, as seen in the opening credits of of a fictitious sitcom video clip (he's seen at 33 seconds in) who may have gotten the loudest applause that night for being in a 5 second shot in a video. Neil does add a lot of cool to anything he's seen in. The sitcom, which "...was canceled during the first commercial break of the first episode, and was ordered destroyed by then-ABC President Grant Tinker..." starred Jonathan Coulton (also not in attendance last night).
We spent nearly two hours on the freeway/city traffic to get to San Francisco last night to see w00tstock v1.0. Normally a 45 min to 1 hr drive, but traffic was slowed down considerably by rain, often very hard rain. Some of the delay was also due to me not giving the DH good directions and having to take a very long detour. Nonetheless, we did arrive before the show started and got fairly good seats even though they were in the very last row - it wasn't that big a venue, fortunately.
The majority of the w00tstock v1.0 audience, as far as I could judge, was male (rough guess, 60% maybe more), iPhone carrying, mathematical or ironic tee-shirt wearing, late 20's to late 30's people. As a 50-something female in a Jones New York blouse and sweater, with a rather old Motorola Razr, should I have felt more out of place? Nah, I had a great time, got most of the jokes and references, and occasionally laughed very hard. We got home really late, so I wasn't able to write this when everything was fresh in my mind, so these are just some general impressions.
The house lights dimmed and Wil Wheaton came out in his official Department of Geek Affairs tee-shirt. We were welcomed, told that the show was under a Creative Commons license (warm laugh from audience) and warned that the show is "in beta". My first clue, before even being told, was that Wil was reading from a folded sheet of paper. I didn't mind that one bit, nor the other little flubs and goofs - it was kind of like being a special guest to a dress rehearsal. Someday, when a more polished w00tstock is on tour, well, I can say "I was there for the first one" :-)
Paul and Storm performed some sets throughout the evening, but because I had seen them open for Jonathan Coulton, I'd heard the songs before - maybe not the Frogger one, although I don't recall. Then came Molly Lewis, who plays the ukulele, and Kid Beyond, whose first piece I missed while taking a break outside for a bit, but I got back in time for the end of his set, which featured two Muppet mashup videos and his commentary - which were quite funny.
The last guest was Adam Savage, who did a slideshow of his 100 Wishes which I found touching, sometimes funny and generally pretty cool.
We got home pretty late, nearly 1 am, which, especially this morning, made me wish the show had been on a Friday or Saturday night - maybe w00tstock 2010... As I write this, the second San Francisco show is about to start. There's one more show scheduled, down in L.A., tomorrow.
You can see some (fabulous) pictures of the stars of the show over at Laughing Squid.
In this picture on calixtonpix's Flickr site you can see the side of the audience where the DH & I were sitting, but we were in the row just behind the ones you can see at the very bottom and didn't make the shot. Note all the glowing iPhone screens...
In the Terry Pratchett book Making Money, Moist Von Lipwig learns about the secret in the basement. If you have not read Making Money and you do not want to read a bit of a spoiler, please skip this entire post. Here's a video of a kitten instead. If you don't mind the tiny spoiler, scroll past the kitten video and read on.
I had no idea that there was a realGlooper (you *are* a Discworld fan, right?)...wow! I found out about MONIAC (or Phillips Hydraulic Computer) because I just was introduced to 2D Goggles - a web comic about Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage via BoingBoing.
Source: Wikimedia Commons "This is a faithful photographic reproduction of an original two-dimensional work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired"
Source: Wikimedia Commons: "A scan or photograph of a page from The Illustrated London News Newspaper by unknown staff artist Permission: Published in 1871, copyright expired 70 years after publication, 1941. This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired"
Here are two videos of the MONIAC at work:
Of course playing around with MONIAC doesn't actually make the world economy change, like Glooper did...or does it? I may have just invented a new world economic meltdown conspiracy theory.
On August 19, 2006 my significant other of 15 years and I were married. Many couples who have been together as long or longer do not have the same privilege as my husband and I. Isn't it about time that changed?
The White Knot is the symbol for support of Marriage Equality—the right for any loving couple regardless of gender to be married under the civil laws of the state and the country. Everyone should have the right to tie the knot.
Marriage Equality is a vital civil right denied to most same-sex couples except in that handful of states where it has finally been recognized. It is vital because marriage is about committed couples—all committed couples—who want to make a lifelong promise to take care of and be responsible for each other. This can only strengthen family and society. This is why Marriage Equality is important to everyone.
It's not just about the word Marriage. Denying committed couples the security and legal protections of marriage hurts them. It's just plain wrong to make it harder for them to take care of and be responsible for each other. The institution of civil marriage offers equal protection under the law when it comes to taxes, health care and decision-making, employment benefits, and perhaps most importantly, raising healthy and happy children.
So I ask you to join me today in showing your support for Marriage Equality and equal rights under the law for everyone. Wear a White Knot every day. Tell people why you are wearing it. And if you can, hand out White Knots to those around you.
For more information, go to www.whiteknot.org. There you can find out how to get White Knots, make your own, get more information about the issues, and even donate to help spread the word.
Dawno is an 'empty nest' mom who loves crafts and is currently addicted to beading. She sells her work at Art Fire and ToldYa! She hopes to sell her jewelry and uniquely fashioned necklace badge lanyards at a few Science Fiction conventions this year, too.
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