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Friday, January 27, 2006

Insects in your food.

Here's another "Big company treats there customers like crap" story. It turns out that many companies purposefully put dried, powdered beetles in your food. For coloring. Dannon Boysenberry yogurt, Tropicana Ruby Red Grapefruit and Good & Plenty Candy to name a few. They hide these insects in ingredient items listed as "Artificial color", "carmine" and "cochineal". The last two are the new truth in labeling wording. Those would be a red flag (or red beetle) warning to you. Those of you who are vegetarian, allergic or just disgusted, should look for those ingredients. Here is More on this story

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Why is Google profiting from Spyware/Adware?

After trying to help a friend clean off their computer, I realized what the main reason why so many people's computers are infected with this junk: Google and Money. I believe that google is the #1 linker to spyware. Search google for words like "smiles" and you'll find loads of software links on the right, on the paid listing side. Things like "hotbar" and "smiliecentral", which have been deemed adware by some. Once you get these installed, you try to search for "ms antispyware" and find a sponsorlink for "ms spyware" and find a link to "Microsoft antispyware" from spywarecleaner.com... which is probably some pretty serious spyware as well. So, why doesn't Google just ban adware and spyware in their listings and ads? Money I guess. I think we need a real movement to force Google to modify their policy. "Do No Evil"(tm) they say. I call their current policy evil, and I think they should change.

Sunday, January 22, 2006

Dragon Illusion Video

Check out this Cool optical illusion of a dragon. It's just a piece of cut out paper. You can make your own from this template (instructions on the page)

Saturday, January 14, 2006

MySpace Videos

Now you can get some great MySpace Videos and the code to put them on your website. Thousands of weird, funny, cool and educational videos are available to watch. My favorite is Funny Cat Videos, there is one where the cat jumps up and opens a door!

Monday, January 02, 2006

Help your Scrabble(tm) Game.

Want to improve your Scrabble game and learn new words? Try out my new Speed Scrabble Word Game that tests your word forming ability against the computer. My other new game is called Code Word. In that game you have to use words and logic to uncover the computer's word.