I have no personal beef with the University of Houston or any of its past or present faculty or students. In fact at one point I had considered attending UH as a student. However, deceptive and unethical tactics such as those uncovered by Texas Watchdog regarding UH’s purchase of the Rice University radio station KTRU [...]
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I know I’m running a bit behind on this one, but this is an egregious enough example of political manipulation and misuse of the term “census” that I feel I need to say my piece about it. Several blogs, including MOMocrats and PRWatch, covered a ruse by the Republican National Committee. The RNC made this [...] This is one of the hardest entries for me to write. But it needs to be said, and I have a tie-in for the Houston locals out there reading this. This story has been mentioned/written about in so many places that I’m going to just make a list for the links rather than stringing it [...] According to a recent CNet article, it seems that Microsoft has been a bit deceptive with their claims that Windows 7 boots faster. The claim is from a company called Iolo Technologies: [Iolo's] lab unit found that a brand-new machine running Windows 7 takes a minute and 34 seconds to become usable, as compared to [...] Better late than never. Credit goes to ReadWriteWeb for being the first place where I read about this recent development. It’s rare I find something a large corporation does that is worthy of praise, but this is one such situation. The official Google blog reveals that, finally, the corporate behemoth has decided it’s time to [...] Recap: In our last episode, I had just revealed how Jason Hoeffer used an offsite Javascript link to fool naive potential customers into thinking he was from the same city they were living in. I continued posing as a potential customer, and clicked the “click here” link that purports to be available for only the [...] On a recent visit to Facebook, I stumbled across an ad which links to a Web site jasongetsrich.com showing a $5000 check from Google, and the opening line “Get paid $5 to $30 for every website link that you post on Google.” The most obvious item I found, however, was that the paragraph after the [...] |
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