Monthly Archives: May 2007

Stopping junk postal mail: Are these ripoffs?

By docwhat | Published: 2007-05-29
My mother, who has a lot of friends that send her hoaxes, email chain letters and other forms of internet tomfoolery on a regular basis, got an email from 41 Pounds. 41 Pounds claims that they will stop your US Postal junk mail if you give them money. I took a quick look around and [...]
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Emoticon Styles (JP vs. US)

By docwhat | Published: 2007-05-25
I found this interesting article about Americans and Japanese read faces differently. To cut the article short, they explain that Japanese culture seems to read the eyes for emotional cues while American culture seems to read the mouth. Quick comparison of emoticons:  US JP  :-) ^_^  x-) >_<  :-( ;_; Interesting. I like the JP [...]
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Morality

By docwhat | Published: 2007-05-24
I ran across an interesting forum post on the Richard Dawkins website. It points to a morality quiz and a video of Jonathan Haidt talking about a way of thinking about morality that he has developed that helps him understand how different people (specifically conservatives) think about morality and why someone who is liberal has [...]
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