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Common Quackery Red Flags

From Sci-ence. The Telltale Quack:

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Elections BC doesn’t want to hear from me

This is what I get when I try to call Elections BC to update my address, so I can vote in the HST Referendum:

Didn’t we see this in an episode of Lost? Are they giving me lottery numbers?

Reading the news … offline

I’ve been playing with Instapaper and some RSS stuff to automatically deliver a daily online newspaper to both my iPad and Kindle.

Kindle:

iPad:

Saucy Buns

Yeah, yeah, Saucy Pam has another recipe on her site. This time it’s for her special Cinnamon Buns. But even if you’re not into that kind of thing, this series of photos is great:

Money for Nothing

“The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has found that OZ FM breached the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ (CAB) Code of Ethics and Equitable Portrayal Code in its broadcast of the song “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits on February 1, 2010. The song contained a word that referred to sexual orientation in a derogatory way, contrary to Clause 2 of the CAB Code of Ethics and Clauses 2, 7 and 9 of the CAB Equitable Portrayal Code.”

From a Metafilter thread: OZFM has been ordered not to play Dire Straits song “Money For Nothing.” In responding to a complaint from a listener, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has agreed that the language in the original lyrics to the song iv inappropriate for public the airwaves.