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• So You Want to Be an Internet Marketer

  
  Internet Marketing Solutions — Authority: 491
  Except youre not sure exactly what an Internet Marketer does. There arent any college degrees, certificates, or programs for Internet marketing. Its mostly an on the go learning experience that takes place at a fast pace. When the world wide web changes you have to change with it. Internet marketing is more ...
  6 hours ago

• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
  2 days ago

• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
  4 days ago

• The Guardian: ‘Brits harvest organs’.

  
  ModernityBlog — Authority: 434
  Yes, that is a sensationalist title and although the Guardian did not use it, it might have, had Brits been Israelis. In another example of dodgy journalism coming out of the Guardian, they originally chose to run a by-line of “Israel admits harvesting Palestinian organs.”. It was subsequently changed, but ...
  5 days ago

• Civic agencies pulled up for shoddy work

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) Ahead of Commonwealth Games, the Delhi High Court Monday pulled up the civic agencies over poor sanitation in the capital.Referring to a Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) report which alleged that sanitation in the capital was going from bad to worse, Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Ajit ...
  5 days ago

• Infosys chief, promoters in trouble over Bangalore airpot

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Bangalore, Dec 21 (IANS) A Karnataka legislature committee Monday recommended appropriate action against Infosys chairman N.R. Narayana Murthy and promoters of the Bengaluru international airport - Larson & Toubro (L&T), Siemens and Zurich - for the shoddy work.A report of the 21-member joint house committee, ...
  5 days ago

• Chiefs Defense Hits Historic Low in Loss to Cleveland

  
  Arrowhead Addict | A Kansas City Chiefs Sports Blog — Authority: 477
  In a game that featured a lot of big plays, some of them record breaking, the Kansas City Chiefs fell to the Cleveland Browns 34 to 41 Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium.There are lot of story lines and talking points to discuss when reviewing the Chief’s latest embarrassment but none more glaring than the abysmal ...
  5 days ago

• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
  6 days ago

• Korea Times stops being in English, stops being about Korea.

  
  Brian in Jeollanam-do — Authority: 551
  Ill take a more serious look at the Korea Times and their recent, um . . . yeah, a little later, but theres this today . South Korea is not an exception in that one gets spam emails every day, including cheap Viagra. After all, the nation has a huge market for the erectile dysfunction medicine with the market ...
  1 week ago

• FCC Opposes Fake Steve Jobs’ AT&T DDoS – Urged Public to Use “Common Sense”

  
  remove the labels | Gadgets and Life — Authority: 136
  Fake Steve Jobs (journalist Dan Lyons) recently proposed that iPhone users earlier today at 3PM EST begin gobbling up as much bandwidth as possible – in protest of AT&T’s shoddy 3G network performance. AT&T has since called the joke “ irresponsible and pointless ,” and now even the FCC has chimed in ...
  1 week ago

• Special Investigations Team Sought in Orissa Violence

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 140
  Acquittals increasingly surpass convictions due to shoddy or corrupt police investigators.NEW DELHI, December 7 (CDN) — Christian leaders in India have called for a special investigations team to counter the shoddy or corrupt police investigations into anti-Christian violence in Orissa state in August-September ...
  1 week ago

• How Many Scientists Fabricate And Falsify Research?

  
  Telic Thoughts — Authority: 425
  From The Article: "A pooled weighted average of 1.97% (N = 7, 95%CI: 0.86–4.45) of scientists admitted to have fabricated, falsified or modified data or results at least once –a serious form of misconduct by any standard– and up to 33.7% admitted other questionable research practices. " "… up to one ...
  1 week ago

• Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
  1 week ago

• Palin on Climategate and Copenhagen

  
  Telic Thoughts — Authority: 425
  Sarah Palin wrote an article appearing in The Washington Post titled Copenhagens political science. Quoting: With the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. The revelation of appalling actions by so-called ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Central Issue

  
  Telic Thoughts — Authority: 425
  "The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998." -Phil Jones, Former Director of the Climatic Research Unit No, Professor Jones. No. The true scientific community (scientists, using the scientific method) are keenly interested in following the ...
  2 weeks ago

• RCMP watchdog slams officers over Dziekanski case

  
  RCMP Watch — Authority: 129
  (CTV.ca News Staff) – Four RCMP officers who came upon an agitated Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver International Airport failed to respond appropriately and their use of a Taser against him was “premature and inappropriate,” says the head of the RCMP’s independent watchdog.Paul Kennedy, chairman of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Desecrating an Icon

  
  Telic Thoughts — Authority: 425
  Wesley J. Smith wrote The New Inquisition: Ideology’s Corruption of Science. He quotes from a WSJ editorial: As anonymous reviewers of choice for certain journals, Mr. Mann & Co. had considerable power to enforce the consensus, but it was not absolute, as they discovered in 2003. Mr. Mann noted in a March ...
  2 weeks ago

• BBC Confirms AJStrata’s Take Shoddy CRU Code

  
  The Strata-Sphere — Authority: 642
  Those of us whose profession’s include development of quality, safe code could tell right off that the CRU code leaked to the public was itself a hack job of incompetence. I mentioned the difference between sound code and ‘PhD level’ code here and here . The best insight into the mess is the HARRY_READ_ME ...
  2 weeks ago

• Korean champion weightlifter wants tall man, big fucking deal.

  
  Brian in Jeollanam-do — Authority: 551
  Looks like the Korea Times is trying to start shit by focusing on some comments made by Jang Miran (장미란), an Olympic gold medalist and multiple world record holder. Here are four out of the six paragraphs in a Korea Times article today: Jang, who is a single, currently doesnt have a boyfriend. She ...
  2 weeks ago

• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
  3 weeks ago

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