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Thanks a BILLION, Mr. President

Welcome back!I heard an interesting article on the radio this morning. It seems that all those programs that our illustrious President started in an effort to kick-start the economy are now ending and they’re going to leave the economy in worse shape than it was before due to the mammoth price tag associated with those [...]

Congress Proposes a 1% transaction tax

I got an email yesterday that got me really angry. You may have seen it already. It’s one of those that is currently being forwarded all over the country. The email talks about the fact that a bill proposing a 1% tax on any transaction that uses a payment instrument, including any check, cash, credit [...]

The people at buy.com are crazy

Insanity. That’s the only word I can think of to explain it. I have been wanting a good supply of dual layer DVD-R disks to keep on hand for some time. The reason is that with all the old TV shows we buy on DVD there is occasionally one that, for whatever reason, is scratched [...]

USPTO won’t accept upside-down faxes

I still have trouble believing this isn’t somebody’s idea of a joke, but according to this article that a friend showed me, the United States Patent and Trademark Office will not accept a fax that is fed into the sender’s machine upside down. Apparently, it’s too much trouble to either turn the page over or [...]

YouTube Porn Day is a bust

I discovered this morning that a group calling themselves 4chan has declared today “YouTube Porn Day“. apparently, what they’ve been asking their people to do over the last several days is create porn videos with just a little bit of work-safe content and upload them to YouTube. Once uploaded, the owner is supposed to mark [...]

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