Ramblings & ephemera
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From John Cloud’s “Why Girls Have BFFs and Boys Hang Out in Packs” (TIME: 17 July 2009):
For the better part of the past half-century, feminists, their opponents and armies of academics have debated the differences between men and women. Only in the past few years have scientists been able to [...]
Posted on July 19th, 2009 by Scott Granneman
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From “List of confidence tricks” (Wikipedia: 3 July 2009):
Get-rich-quick schemes
Get-rich-quick schemes are extremely varied. For example, fake franchises, real estate “sure things”, get-rich-quick books, wealth-building seminars, self-help gurus, sure-fire inventions, useless products, chain letters, fortune tellers, quack doctors, miracle pharmaceuticals, Nigerian money scams, charms and talismans are all used to separate the mark from his [...]
Posted on July 5th, 2009 by Scott Granneman
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From Robert Graham’s “PHPBB Password Analysis” (Dark Reading: 6 February 2009):
A popular Website, phpbb.com, was recently hacked. The hacker published approximately 20,000 user passwords from the site. …
This incident is similar to one two years ago when MySpace was hacked, revealing about 30,000 passwords. …
The striking different between the two incidents is that the phpbb [...]
Posted on March 10th, 2009 by Scott Granneman
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From Richard Ben Cramer’s “What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?” (Esquire: June 1986):
Few men try for best ever, and Ted Williams is one of those. There’s a story about him I think of now. This is not about baseball but fishing. He meant to be the best there, too. One day he says [...]
Posted on December 1st, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Daniel A. Nathan’s “The Big Fix” (Legal Affairs: March/April 2004):
THE BLACK SOX SCANDAL was the sports crime of the 20th century. In a complicated and poorly conceived and executed conspiracy, several prominent Chicago White Sox ballplayers teamed up with gamblers to lose the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. …
Of those artfully deceitful [...]
Posted on June 1st, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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A conversation Denise & I had sometime in July 2003:
Scott: Hey, did you hear about that baseball player hitting that mascot dressed as a sausage?
Denise: Yeah!
Scott: That poor polish sausage.
Denise: Yeah.
Scott: From what I read, he didn’t mean to hurt her. He just tapped her. I mean, those costumes are pretty top-heavy.
Denise: Sure … [...]
Posted on November 22nd, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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