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RE:Scam

Re:scam can take on multiple personas, imitating real human tendencies with humor and grammatical errors, and can engage with infinite scammers all at once, meaning it can continue any email conversation for as long as possible. Re:scam will now turn the tables on the scammers by wasting their time, and ultimately damage the profits for scammers...

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The Most Popular Halloween Candy Sold Online In Every State

Americans will spend roughly $2.7 billion on Halloween candy this year. And an online candy retailer has crunched the numbers to figure out the most popular candy in every state.

Five Generations of Making Soy Sauce the Traditional Way

Fire And Smoke! Two Sites To Help You Keep Up With The Data

Here is a great site to help you keep up with all the fires burning in the Northwest!

Here is a link to check on the resulting bad air quality!

Do You Know What A Snipe Is?

How movie theaters nudged film-goers out of their seats with short clips designed around the hard sell.

Compression Decompressedor, Making Things Smaller: A Visual Introduction

Compression is everywhere. It's used to more efficiently store data on hard drives, send TV signals, transmit web pages like this one, stream Netflix videos, package up video games for distribution, the list is endless. Almost no significant area of modern computing exists that doesn't make use of compression technologies.

So what is it?

Whether you've been using desktop compression software for years, or never thought about it at all, this article will try to explain a little of what goes on under the hood when you squash a file or stream a video. We'll look into the answers to the big questions, and probably raise more new ones along the way.

What does it mean to compress something?

How can you make something smaller than it already is?

How do you practically go about doing that?

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4 Obnoxious Old People Behaviors (Explained By Science)

If Energy Drink Ads Were Honest - Honest Ads

If The Lottery Was Honest - Honest Ads

Why Credit Cards Are A Scam - Honest Ads

How Mickey Mouse Destroyed the Public Domain

The Real Reason Car Dealerships Are the Worst

The Weird Reason We Think Vitamins Are Good for Us (They're Not)

The Real Reason Hospitals Are So Expensive

How does caffeine keep us awake?

Why do people join cults?

The Biggest Movie From the Year You Were Born

Your birthday gifts you a Zodiac sign, a generation, a gemstone, a Chinese animal avatar, a spiritual celebrity twin born the same day, or just your own personal holiday to tide you over until the next national day off. But why stop there? Your entire birth year deserves a symbolic movie, too, the BIGGEST film from a 12-month window that surely says something about where you've come from, and who you've become.

Which movie you'll cling to depends on your metrics. "Biggest" could mean the blockbuster that topped the box office during the year you were born. Or maybe "biggest" has cultural value -- prestige doesn't get much bigger than winning Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Or maybe you're a little more thoughtful and need a recommendation. We've got you covered in all three departments. Whether you're 10 or 100 -- seriously, we're not ageist -- everyone deserves a movie they can stream on a whim and call their own. Here are yours!

Here's What Those Little Dots Are On The Edges Of Your Car Windows

Recently, while looking at the vibrant lights of Hong Kong through a bus window, I noticed for the eleven-millionth time those little dots and that black band running along the edge of the glass. “What are these?” I wondered. So when I got home, I called up a major automotive glass manufacturer to find out.

Reboot Your Kindle Once In a While

Is your Kindle feeling sluggish? Does it seems like it takes a little longer to change the page then it used to? That doesn’t mean there’s some technical problem. It means it’s time to reboot it.