Entries from June 2005
The Americans who support our troops, are the silent majority. We are not "organized" to reflect who we are, or to reflect what our opinions are. Many Americans, like yourself, would like to start a grassroots movement using the membership of the Special Operations Association, and Special Forces Associations, and all their friends, simply to recognize that Americans support our troops. We need to inform the local VFW’s and American Legion, our local press, local TV, and continue carrying the message to the national levels as we start to get this going. Our idea of showing our solidarity and support for our troops is starting Friday, and continuing on each and every Friday, until this is over, that every RED - blooded American who supports our young men and women, WEAR SOMETHING RED.
Discovered via
Fark, of course.
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Categories: Fark · Politics
Here’s an
article that might just make all you single, newly single, and hopelessly bachelorfied men out there feel more than a little bit better. Old but still relevant.
Many women, mostly married, deserve our respect and admiration. Admired because some of the men these women choose to stay with are workaholics, alcoholics, debt-a-holics, online porn addicts or generally lousy people. As a side note, why any man who has a wife who is nice looking, not a nag and gives him the ‘rule of his castle’ (or lets him think he’s the king…) would even contemplate intercourse with another woman or waste time perusing porn is stupefying.
Actual quotes from humans on this article:
- I love this article.
- This article should win an award.
Choose wisely.
Categories: POW - The blog
Data-brokers like ChoicePoint and Acxiom suck so bad that in a recent Privacy Activism study, they were found to have inaccuracies in one hundred percent of the reports in the sample, including incorrectly identifying subjects’ sex and even incorrectly describing several participants as officers of companies.
This is important, though:
The small sample size of this study (eleven participants) means that care must be taken in projecting these results to the overall population.
Eleven people. Seems reliable.
Tell you what, still, though, personal experience says that you really, really have to be careful about what goofy data you have out there. At this moment there is a credit report out there with my name on it that says that I had an American Express card in 1972 and a GM car loan in 1974. I think I was still watching
this show at the time. Get thee to
Annual Credit Report and check your stuff at some point. A very safe prediction is that YOU have something wrong on your report, especially if you haven’t looked in a while.
Categories: Finance
PC World’s got a random roundup of stuff you can do using the Interweb, like anonymously tell your boss he has bad breath, count down the seconds until your machine-predicted final reckoning, become the next Howard Stern or create your own reality TV show.
Here’s a little entry of something I absolutely didn’t know:
You say your ISP doesn’t offer a Web interface for your e-mail inbox? Don’t fret. With
Mail2Web you can access any POP3 or IMAP4 account, read and respond to messages, and attach up to 10MB of files from any Web-connected computer. And don’t worry, your mail will still be there ready to download when you get back to the office.
The internet is cool.
Categories: Lifehacks
