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 found similar services at StopTheJunkMail and Greendimes.
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 emoticons sometimes. This is my favorite: \^_^/ yay!.
Ciao!
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 a hard time understanding where they come from.
Before I tell you where the video and the forum thread is at, let me ask you to take the morality quiz at yourmorals.org. The quiz will probably be more accurate before you see the video and start thinking about it too much. Go ahead, take it. I’ll wait.