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Watch out for this software on your machine - Seekmo. When installed, it sits in the windows system tray, claiming to be some kind of search assistant. It is spyware of the most pernicious kind. I had a a problem with my firewall software (McAfee) about a week ago and it disabled briefly (for...

Hi folks, tis my first post on this particular forum; I usually haunt religion and politics. I've a story from my childhood (some 34 years ago, this was) and while I realize memory is a tricky and often faulty thing, I sincerely feel I remember this event accurately. Maybe not. At any rate...

I'm reading "The Ancestor's tale" by Richard Dawkins and (at the moment) I am trying to picture what a concestor is. I have no education in these matters, simply curiosity, so I hope I don't ask a dumb question (in the wrong forum too!) I gather a concestor is a creature from whom's immediate...

Same Newspaper, Two columnists, One week apart: Can you guess which column was written by the M.D. and which was written by the writer whose columns "appear on Wednesdays and Sundays, with a usually lighthearted look at our city, our government and our (or at least HER) family"...

With reference to "FairyTale Revisited" on SWIFT 26 Nov 2004. It mentioned the ease with which children could have transformed a sighting of a dragonfly (such as a specimen of Orthermis Discolor) into a fairy encounter. How is it transformed into a fairy encounter was not specifically...

So much of magic is presentation. The mechanics or "secret" is often a minor thing in comparison to the presentation. This hit home for me last weekend, when I performed a card trick for a friend and his son (a really smart young man who will soon enter his final year of high school). They...

Only in Cleveland... http://www.cleveland.com/cuyahoga/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/105602010129810.xml Two brothers kept their mother's dead body in storage while they cashed her Social Security checks...until one brother got drunk and told the cops he just needed the money until he...