These Bizarre Ripoff ‘News’ Sites Have Turned Plagiarism Into A Business Scammers have cooked up a truly strange scheme to leech traffic from journalists. The fact that there are content mills on the internet that exist solely to rip off the hard work of legitimate reporters and writers while putting forth no effort of their …
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I�ve Got To Fix This!
We have been wanting to solve this mystery for years, and the other day, we finally did, so I thought I’d pass on the solution. It started one day when Steve and I were sending emails to our buddy J. Steve was using Thunderbird, and J and I were using Outlook. For some reason, I …
Sorry. I Don’t Understand
Parents name son ‘Google’ to make him popular, lucky in life How popular is the kid really going to be if nobody can talk to him? “Oh hey Google….crap! I did it again!” Local media in south-western Indonesia’s West Java Province recently reported that the boy’s mother, 27-year-old Ella Karin was too embarrassed to reveal …
TuneIn Might Want Some Of My Money
When last we talked about TuneIn Premium’s disappearing content, I said that when I published that post it was quite likely I was going to end my subscription. Well, I did. My final month ran out about a week ago, and yesterday I got this email from them. We really think you should give TuneIn …
I Don’t Think TuneIn Wants My Money Anymore
When they dropped audiobooks from premium a couple of years ago, I was ultimately ok with it. I wasn’t happy to see them go, but I didn’t listen to them nearly as much as I thought I might. It was nice to know they were there when I wanted them, but I mostly used the …
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We Can Make What?
When Rogers Ignite changed their slogan to…this, we couldn’t figure out what it was saying. Was it we give Mike a mop? We can like Mark? We can go to Mars? We can make a month? We can make a monk? Guaca macca mole? We can make a march? We eventually settled on “We can …
How In the World Do You Shop Online For Clothes?
I’m not just asking for the benefit of blind people like me, I really want to know how someone does it in general without it becoming an enormous pain in the ass. To be clear, I’m not talking about buying things like funny t-shirts or sports hats. I don’t even think I’m talking about underwear, …
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This Is The Nicest Thing Someone Has Said About Us In A While
I didn’t know they made comment spam like this anymore. I have no idea how it made it through the filter, but I’m almost glad it did. It has me weirdly nostalgic for the old days. Hi there, performed everyone read it two times ?? Made use of to accomplish! I was actually searching for …
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Virtual Fireworks
I got word about this and I can’t decide if it’s pretty neat or neat with a touch of creepy. But still, it’s mostly neat. Because we can’t have throngs of humanity smushing into parks and watching the fireworks, the government of Canada decided to put on a virtual display. On July 1, wherever you …
Even When You’re Isolated You’re Still Out In The World, Councillor Hot Mic
Update: If you don’t feel like watching or skimming five hours of meeting for 30 seconds of action, you can watch just the fun part here. So remember the olden days of a few months ago when we all had to do things like deal with people in person and we, at least the functional …
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