Classic Failures of Humankind

First of all, some news. Happening Now is now on YouTube under the name Alternative Paths. This channel will be used to deliver a unique perspective on, well, just about all the topics that stand out right now. So go ahead and subscribe to receive future movie clip updates.

I have posted the most classic failures clip on our channel to get the ball rolling. In this post I have included some of the best ones from Fail Blog that were not in the clip.

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Mortgages and Home Refinancing Info

Some great mortgage information from around the net, including Home Refinance for Beginners - Learning the Basics, a well-written overview on learning the terms used in home refinancing to make the most of it. New Home Constructions Slow Down comments on how rising oil prices and other factors are impacting on the housing construction rates.

Some great mortgage information from around the net

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iPhone Tips and Tricks

This week we will look at some of the best blogs around the web for iPhone tips and tricks.

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Fuel Prices on the Rise - Mitigate Your Spending

The Dwacon Blog offers some tips for saving on fuel prices:

  • Only Buy Gas in the Early Morning
  • Fill up slower than usual
  • Fill Up When Your Tank Is ½ Full
  • More tips at the blog and below …

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Get Paid $10.00 Right Now

Looking for a method to earn some extra cash online? Here are three sites I have stumbled across in the last week that offer payment for taking part in offers, games, and surveys.

IndexDollars will pay you $5.00 just for signing up and taking no further action - this amount could be more than doubled after participating in their game and survey offers.

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Notorious Scams Online

There has been a rise in scam e-mails in the last couple of months so I decided to post on the recent news about scams occuring online. Phishing Scam: Apple Store is an article discussing a recent scam targetting Apple users.

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The Sexiest Online Innovations

In the recent decade web technologies and data mining tools have bridged the information sharing gap like nothing before - but soon we might just see a lot more information being tracked, processed, and presented both online and offline.

… with GPS, WiFI and iphone like devices it isnt hard to imagine one day walking into a bar and being able to scroll through the profiles of everyone who comes within certain proximity to you … a post titled 7 Very-Likely Visions Of Social Networking’s Future: Is This Web 3.0? puts forward.

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How come blogs keep asking me to use Feeds and Social Bookmarks?

There seems to be more and more division occuring between technical and non-technical internet users, so I have decided to write up a post about the reason blogs will ask their readers to add posts to social bookmarks and to subscribe to their FeedBurner RSS Feeds.

What is an RSS Feed? is a great article that was just posted at The SolidWorks Geek. Latest RSS Feed To Bring Update Closer for You is another article that explores the benefits of using RSS to read blogs, and Billy Chia cites this YouTube clip explaining RSS in plain terms:

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I absolutely did not deserve that!

I got an e-mail with this link earlier of a real advertisment for a Law Firm (found at TVs worst adverts). I found it amusing that this would air on TV so I decided to post it up with a few other odd and entertaining adverts that have been shown on TV in various countries.

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Caught Red-Handed On Cloud 9

Smoke and mirrors means -Not real, lacking substance, to create an illusion-, Dutch writes in his blog, Dutch’s English Language Oddity Clearing House. This blog -investigates the phrases, idioms, slogans and sayings that may have influenced your life- (the slogan).

In this post I will share with some of the sayings people take for granted that Dutch explores on his site.

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