Archive for May, 2008
NASA to Announce Success of Long Galactic Hunt
Posted by: | CommentsHere’s a little something from the NASA website:
WASHINGTON — NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years. This finding was made by combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with ground-based observations.
Personally can’t wait to see what it is. I just thought I’d share with you. And no, I don’t think it’s planet X.
11:11, coincidence or not?
Posted by: | CommentsI was doing my daily search for scams and hoaxes and came across a new website about 2012. Of course it has everything you expect from that kind of website and it’s web 0.1 as you’d expect. So nothing irregular there except it has a couple of theories I wasn’t necessarily aware about 2012. You know, it’s kind of hard to keep up with all the crap being spread around about 2012. In fact it’s not just something about 2012, but it’s a general thing called 11:11. Apparently, people all over the world are beginning to notice more and more of these 11:11 sightings. It can appear on your alarm clock, microwave and can also be apparently linked with a lot of the numbers involved in 9/11. I personally don’t feel concerned by that as I haven’t noticed anything like that lately. Anyway, just to a quick search of 11:11 on Google and you’re up for a lot of crap.
I would like to take an example from the website I was talking about previously to explain why these 11:11 things are just a bunch of crap. From the website:
Have you ever looked at the clock and saw the exact same time on a repetitive basis?
This may not be a coincidence. If you Google “11:11″ you’ll receive over 124 million results on this increasingly intriguing phenomena.
Interesting numerology trivia: if you do numerology on 12-21-2012, you get the following:
12+21+2012=20452+0+4+5=11
coincidence or not?
God, god, god. Can we please stop using that kind or arguments? I mean, we can figure out other dates that would add up to 11 like this. Why not 13-21-2011 or 12-25-2008? Oh yeah sorry, I know, it has to be related to 2012.
Anyway, I’m just sick of that numerology stuff and remember, it is not a valid argument!
DCS:1 Life Technology: 0
Posted by: | CommentsOh a nice thing happened today on one of my post: two comments suddenly appeared with one minute between each of them on the post about Life Technology’s purple energy shield scam and these comments were actually positives about the product. Something is wrong right? Two positive comments in a row for the biggest scam in history? No way. First of all, here are the two comments:
dylan:
its not a scam trust me ive had 1 for a night it may not do dna repair but i definatly felt better after 1 night of wearing it.rob:
dylan is telling the truth i own one myself and could notice the difrence
Now, one thing the author of these two posts didn’t figure out is that the blog framework I use (Wordpress) actually log the IP address of every comment’s author for security reasons. Guess what? That’s right, the comments were coming from the same ip address meaning it was, as I suspected, the same person posting the two comments. For those of you not familiar with ip addresses, an IP address is a unique address that identifies you have when you access the internet.
Ok, so that was funny but I wasn’t satisfied with my findings. I wanted to check if that IP address was actually a Life Technology employee’s (if they have any) address or just the address of a random person feeling bad because he/she got scammed. So I traced the IP address and found out where it was coming from. Unfortunately, I can’t conclude on whether the comment is from life technology or not because I don’t know where LT is located. I’ve tried to search for a postal address on their website but couldn’t find any. The only information I was able to get is that their ebay store seems to be shipping from the UK. So, if they truly are located in the UK, the comment wasn’t coming from them because the city I’ve identified with the trace was in the US. They could of course have used a fairly simple technique to trick the IP address (By going through a proxy), but I doubt that this person is intelligent enough to do so because he/she didn’t even think about spreading the two comments by a day or two or asking a friend for the other comment.
Anyway, coming from Life Technology or not, somebody’s angry. 
wixist - What’s missing in you life today
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Here’s an interesting social experiment a friend of mine pointed out to me today. It’s quite new and in fact I think it’s not even indexed in Google yet, but it’s definitely interesting. It’s called wixist and the goal if the website is stated as follows:
wixist is a social experiment to find out what’s missing in our lives, in 50 characters. What is it for you? Is it love, sex or would you kill for strawberry Coke if it existed? Would a new feature in Microsoft Excel made your life easier today? That’s what wixist want to know: everything you’re missing in your everyday life and everything you wish existed. It’s plain simple, write it down in the box above and submit it. It’s anonymous and purely done as a social experiment.
I think it’s funny just to see what will come out of this project, so give it a try!