December 28th, 2008
I really should have blogged about this yesterday. However there are so many great people blogging on it already that I really do not want to add to the noise. Keep an eye on my Recently Read section to the right for some of the articles I find very good. You may also visit Yourish or The Muqata just to name a couple of blogs presenting honest reporting. I do want to caution all my readers to view anything in the mainstream news with scepticism. Even Fox News had a very slanted piece earlier today.
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December 10th, 2008
This is an official call to action. Monster Cable, the maker of over priced av cables, has an insane policy to sue any company with Monster in their name. In the past they have sued such sites as monster.com. This is completely ludicrous as trademark protection is designed to prevent customer confusion and only applies in the companies specific segment. Obviously customers are not going to think that monster.com is related to Monster Cables as they are two completely different segments.
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September 2nd, 2008
Even amidst the hateful speech and actions, Israel continues to uphold one of the core beliefs of Judaism, and practices Gimilut Chasadim around the world (even for Iran). View full post for video.
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July 19th, 2008
The other day I read an article on Consumerist about Target scanning drivers licenses when buying alcohol. This got me currious about what was encoded on the bar code and magnetic strip of my Louisiana drivers license. The magnetic strip proved to be pretty benign, it had the license number, name, and address, all pretty standard stuff. However when I checked the bar code I was shocked to find out that my social security number was encoded in it.
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