Archive for August 3rd, 2004
This week’s edition of Brain Brew Radio is online. (Link is to a Real Player audio stream.)
FTC Unveils New E-mail Address for Deceptive Spam
FTC: “The Federal Trade Commission receives about 300,000 samples of deceptive spam — forwarded by computer users — each day, and stores it in a database. The FTC and its law enforcement partners use the database to generate cases against people who use spam to spread false or misleading information about their products or services. [...]
Today’s Protest Is Tomorrow’s Advertisement
Wired: “New Yorker Joshua Kinberg is a bike messenger of a different stripe. Instead of ferrying legal papers between lawyers, he uses a homemade, wireless, bicycle-mounted dot-matrix printer to spray protest messages in the street.” The printer is made out of five solenoid-triggered spray cans, loaded with washable chalk and mounted on the back of [...]
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2Do Before I Die: If you had 30 minutes to recount your life’s stories, what would you highlight? From small pleasures and eccentric pursuits to lifelong ambitions fulfilled, what stories would you share? 2DO Before I Die collects true stories of things people have already done to inspire the best choices for people’s lists of [...]
