McAfee SiteAdvisor – Phishing Quiz

McAfee SiteAdvisor – Phishing Quiz
Interesting little quiz designed to demonstrate how phishing attacks and false web sites can steal your online identification, and potentially gain access to your financial accounts.

The Cat Who . . . ?

I saw the story yesterday about the cat in the old folks home that predicts when people are about to die. Then there’s this take from another blogger (h/t Instapundit).
The Speculist: Cat Who Predicts(?) Death
Yeah, poignant. Not to go all Occam’s Razor or anything, but has it occurred to anyone to ask whether this [...]

If this is true, it’s better than the astronaut lady

Man crosses U.S. to violently settle Internet feud | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
ELM MOTT, Texas — A Navy man who got mad when someone mocked him as a “nerd” over the Internet climbed into his car and drove 1,300 miles from Virginia to Texas to teach the other guy a lesson.As he made his [...]

Things I No Longer Believe

A post at the Evangelical Outpost adds to a list of 5 things that Rod Dreher wrote that he no longer believes. Dreher’s list is steeped in his typical self-centered irrationality. In contrast Joe Carter has some stark beliefs, that if true, would change our politics and foreign relations significantly going forward. As he says, [...]

Analysts==Fortune Tellers

With a similar level of accuracy. I posted a while back on the success of the iPhone, with analysts projecting that Apple sold approximately 500,000 the first weekend. Apple has released their quarterly figures and it turns out that was a bit of an overstatement. According to this post from MacWorld, Apple sold about 270,000 [...]

Should the Astros trade the Magic Wandy?

This post at MLB Trade Rumors suggests that the Mariners might be interested in Wandy Rodriguez. Other than the possibility of trading Lidge, this might be one of the toughest questions Tim Purpura faces at the trading deadline this year. Wandy is having the best year of his career and even though his ERA and [...]