http://www.ethannonsequitur.com thoughts, musings, and the not-so-random Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:29:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en BE WARNED BEFORE USING PAYPAY.COM !!! Within 24 hours of "verifying" a new PayPay account with my bank debit card, I had the following attempted purchases: SCI*SEPHORA.COM -$1.00 WAL-MART -$40.00 BUYPAYMENTS.COM 866840 -$1.00 SCI*SEPHORA.COM -$1.00 WAL-MART -$1,035.40 I am an international traveler, never let my card out of my sight and am very protective of my banking ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/paypay-fraud-debit-card-account-verification-information.html From TED Talks: In Al Gore's brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of "generational mission" -- the kind of feeling that brought forth the ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/al-gore-new-global-warming-slideshow-ted-talks.html I read a lot of ebooks, especially tech stuff, and, happily, most people are savvy enough to publish their ebooks in PDF format. Occasionally, however, someone finds some obscure reason or obsession to publish in CHM, Microsoft's Compiled HTML Help file format. This was made back in the ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/chimp-chm-pdf-exporting-on-a-mac.html Yes..We..Can... Barack Obama inspires me and gives me hope for positive change and leadership. will.i.am's video tribute captures this hope. I've made a Barack Obama "Yes, We Can" facebook application that showcases the video and some helpful links. Click on through and add it to your facebook profile and then ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/yes-we-can-william-barack-obama-8675309.html On June 21st, the final Harry Potter book, Deathly Hallows, will go on sale and millions of copies will go flying off of store shelves. Unfortunately, the smaller local and regional bookstores will not be seeing much of this initial rush. Why? Wal-Mart will be selling the ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/harry-potter-and-the-dark-lord-waldemart.html This past Monday, the world lost la voix d’un ange, the voice of an angel. At two weeks shy of his 24th birthday, Grégory lost his lifelong battle with Cystic Fibrosis while awaiting an organ transplant. He was a kind, gentle and generous soul and we were blessed ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/gregory-lemarchal-1983-2007.html Stressed? Tense? Need a little unwind-time? Maybe you just need to throw some cows at something..... (the preceding message has been brought to you by Monty Python's The Holy Grail, Spamalot and The Knights Who Until Recently Said Ni) http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/fetchez-la-vache-monty-python-spamalot.html If you work on any WordPress blogs/sites that are written in any language that has accented characters and happen to be on DreamHost, you have probably noticed character encoding problems. For instance, the new auto-save feature in WordPress or the Ajax categories add field in the category list, can ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/wordpress-dreamhost-utf8-character-encoding.html My inner geek thinks this is seriously brilliant. We’ll need to rethink a few things… We’ll need to rethink copyright We’ll need to rethink authorship We’ll need to rethink identity We’ll need to rethink ethics We’ll need to rethink aesthetics We’ll need to rethink rhetorics We’ll need to rethink governance We’ll need to rethink privacy We’ll need to rethink commerce We’ll ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/the-machine-is-us-video-michael-wesch.html If you happen to work on MySpace blogs either personally (my seriously needing some attention personal page) or professionally (myspace marketing for clients), you have probably found some serious user issues with the blog editor (not that I would mean to imply that there is anything haphazard, unplanned or completely ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/myspace-blog-advanced-editor-error-in-firefoxmac.html I chopped up the Obama'08 graphic into a new buddy icon for my meebo. A couple of people said they wanted it, so here you go... btw, if you don't use meebo yet, you should check it out.  It lets you use all of your AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), MSN ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/barack-obama-aim-buddy-icon.html As someone who wants to continue to progress in self-actualization and the potential of who (and what) I was created to be, I found the following article to be very insightful, especially as I have found myself surrounded by some incredibly noxious individuals over the past several years. ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/becoming-a-non-toxic-person.html Be sure to go and leave a comment at NCO Financial Systems at CallFerret Phone Number Lookup so that all of the new NCO numbers are available to people as soon as possible. In case you are getting calls from the wonderful people at NCO Financial Systems. You should read ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/nco-financial-systems.html In a recent article on Reuters, the author points out the limitations companies like [tag]Apple[/tag] place on your online [tag]music downloads[/tag]. Issues like limitation to Apple [tag]iPod[/tag]s, multiple computer use rights and CD burning. Before people erroneously get the impression this issue is limited to Apple, there are a few ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/do-you-own-songs-bought-online-well-sort-of.html Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These activities will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law that gives giant corporations more control over the Internet. [tag]Internet providers[/tag] like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress hard to gut [tag]Network Neutrality[/tag], the Internet's First Amendment. Net ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/did-you-pay-your-internet-protection-payola.html Whether it is [tag]tourism[/tag], [tag]language learning[/tag], cooking classes or business, I am amazed at how many [tag]Americans[/tag] and [tag]English-Speaking[/tag] people I meet in [tag]Montpellier[/tag], [tag]France[/tag]. I have, however, found zero quality networking tools or gathering locations for us all. The American Library at l'Université Paul-Valéry is a great ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/americans-and-english-speakers-in-montpellier.html A senior at [tag]Georgia Tech[/tag] is suing the University for the right to be intolerant. I'm always amazed at how much effort certain [tag]Christians[/tag] can expend condemning others and defining new ways to form divisions between people. The excuse most often cited is 'Holiness' and the Greater Morality™. ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/christians-sue-over-tolerance.html After reflecting on the [tag]genocide[/tag] in [tag]Rwanda[/tag], the late Senator Paul Simon said: "If every member of the House and Senate had received 100 letters from people back home saying we have to do something about Rwanda, when the crisis was first developing, then I think the response would have ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/end-the-genocide-in-darfur.html In my pants, my wallet, my bookbag, even my Moleskine, there are little pieces of paper. Written on them is one word, gratitude. To some it may seem simplistic, but I have never been as happy as since I started reminding myself how much that I can be thankful ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/benjamin-franklin-13-virtues-gratitude-in-my-pocket.html Last Thursday, the Senate Budget Committee cut back funds to the President's plan to fight global AIDS and extreme poverty-but we still have a chance to make a difference! Right now, two U.S. Senators are reaching across political divides and asking the Senate to add $566 million to fund critical AIDS, ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/one-campaign-email-santorum-durbin-amendment.html Google Mars is up with some amazing pictures of the Martian landscape from NASA. The pictures are available in three ways: an 'elevation' topographic model, a visual satellite image, or an infrared satellite image. 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It has some cool Web 2.0 stuff (meaning AJAX) and is a lot more customizable than MySpace. It's in beta so there smoothing out the kinks.. Seems to have some mac ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/tagworld-a-rupert-murdoch-free-myspace.html The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time - Jeffrey Sachs http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/currently-reading-the-end-of-poverty.html RENT has finally arrived and I loved it. I've seen RENT on stage several dozen times and I was apprehensive but hopeful for the film treatment of my favourite musical. As I expected, the film critics are split on the movie, but the fan base is loving it and ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/forget-regret-or-life-is-yours-to-miss.html Just back from the midnight premiere and a bit jacked on too much Coke past my bedtime. Quite a bit darker than the previous movies and much more encouraging of a book adaptation, the fourth Harry Potter movie plain rocked. While some of the teenage acting continues to ... http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/harry-potter-and-the-goblet-of-fire-rocks.html