Interesting posts this week, part 4
August 3rd, 2007 • interesting posts, web
Here are this week’s interesting posts, as judged so by me!
Read/WriteWeb has spent this week talking about ways Yahoo and their new CEO could fix themselves in just 100 days. They’ve touched on a ton of salient points this week but missed the most important one, in my opinion: support. I’ve never dealt with worst customer support in my entire life, from bottom to top it’s just atrocious.
Copyblogger provides a list of lists that are some of the best writing tips I’ve seen in a long time.
A British student is suing a porn distributor for stealing her picture and using it for their DVD cover and DVD label. They call her a liar and say that she was “asking for it” (actual quote!). I guess they didn’t realize that they stole the picture of an underage adolescent and could probably be heavily fined for using child-like images to promote pornography.
Grandfather performs ‘exorcism’, nearly pops a 3 year old’s head off (Extra details: Sky News, Azcentral.com, Fox News)
This must have been “perform an exorcism, win a free trip to jail” week. I have no idea where Christians get off on this. Where did they learn (or get told) that punching and choking are involved in exorcisms? This is what fundamentalism teaches you: nothing.
I don’t expect the whole atrocious emo movement to be big in Sweden — they’re too busy being Satanists and burning down churches and churning out awesome black metal — but he’s recently run across it. I really feel sorry for Martin now. Given he found out about this movement from a magazine called Enthroned (epitomal Belgian black metal powerhouse), I’m surprised it has anything about emo in it at all!
Researchers claim this to be an amazing new discovery. Hasn’t this been known for, what, ever? Every brainy/nerdy/geeky/scholarly student in the last few hundred years has been a testament to this and it’s been common knowledge to everyone but these “researchers” apparently.
I smell a weekend project coming from this one.
Researchers have found Alexandria before it was Alexandria…in Alexandria’s bay by sheer luck.
CAPTION: Britnerine makes a surprise stealth attack on an unwitting crowd. (Thanks Mashable!)