Dec
19
Go Elf Yourself
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Making the rounds is the “Elf Yourself” flash application where you can upload photos of you and three of your closest friends and play elf. The application is addicting. Of course, I chose to humiliate my cats:
If you’re in a “Bah Humbug!” mood this year, try the “Scrooge Yourself” game instead.
Dec
7
How to Tell a Hoax
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We’ve all at some point received an email passed along from some well meaning friend or family member. The nature of the email on the face seems like a good effort to support: helping out a sick child or putting your name on a petition for a good cause. Other times the email is simply a neat story. What’s the common link between these emails? They are all fake.
Before you get caught up in passing along and contributing to the longevity of an email that’s a hoax, here are some pointers to help you determine if an email is true or not.
Many fake emails play on your emotions. “Send this to everyone you know!” is usually a red flag.
The email plays on your emotion. Hoax emails are designed to get you to react emotionally so you don’t stop and think about the legitimacy of the actual message.
The “too cute or neat to be true” message. The facts of the email sounds so fascinating that you can’t resist passing the email along.
Check the urban legends web sites to see if the email has already been reported. The two best Urban Legends sites are: http://urbanlegends.about.com and http://snopes.com
If you can’t find the email on the urban legend sites, I recommend “googling” to email. To do this, go to http://www.google.com and type in the subject of the email plus the words “urban legend”.
Dec
7
Recycling Cell Phones
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Collective Good - Cell Phone Recycling Benefits Society
By James Mosieur
Collective good is broadly defined as ‘all that is good for all people in a given community’. Some organizations claim their product or service adds to the collective good, some preach that the virtues of their operation benefit the collective good. Some have even named their companies after the term hoping in some way to veil their true motivation – making a profit.
To be sure, there are plenty of ways that business can help society. Green businesses, in particular, employ people, add to our GDP, help the environment, and make a profit. These types of operations are truly working for the collective good of their community. Read more
Dec
5
“Gifts” From Charities
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Are you inundated with prayer cards, rosaries and other “gifts” from Catholic charities soliciting donations. If you aren’t sure what to do with them, take the offerings to your local parish and give them to the Religious Education Director. Oftentimes, the parish can give them to the CCD and Confirmation children as prizes and gifts.
Dec
5
SOS Line for Travelers
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If you plan to travel over the holidays, make sure you take note of 1(877)FLYERS6, a free hotline for flyers set up by the Coalition for an Airline Passengers’ Bill of Rights. From Consumerist.com:
They offer a variety of services, like emailing your family or business associates and let them know where you are, offering real-time weather and flight status information, and let you know about hotel or rental options, as well as help you deal with refund situations. If you’re stuck on the tarmac and not being let off the plane, they will pass the info on and try to get media out to the airport.
Seen via Consumerist
Dec
1
Nuns Throwing Snowballs
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December is here!
