2008 May 30, 10:02'What happened to me (and what happens to thousands of others each month) is known as "cramming." The [FTC] calls this "the practice of placing unauthorized, misleading, or deceptive charges on your
telephone bill...'
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This past
Saturday Sarah and I took the Savor Seattle Tour of various food shops in Pikes Place. Sarah had suggested it at one point and when Jesse and Nicole
brought it up again when they came up to Seattle we decided to go. Surprisingly our tour group consisted of mostly locals. Except for the fish market I hadn't been to see any of the places on the
tour. I particularly enjoyed the chocolate cherries and the tea. Our tour guide Tim was funny and overall I enjoyed the tour and would recommend it. I've made a map of our tour including what free trials we got at each location. Yum!
food tour seattle savor seattle nontechnical 2008 Apr 9, 12:51"Matt Mason's keynote on The Pirate's Dilemma, his book on how to compete with piracy... Mason discusses why piracy can be an opportunity as well as a threat, how pirates innovate outside of the
marketplace and how legitimate businesses can respond."
video via:boingboing matt-mason piracy economics the-pirates-dilemma 2008 Apr 2, 6:29A pillow fight in Pike Place Market. "A group of web-connected friends converge at a specified location in the city and at a designated time produce previously concealed pillows and begin an awesome
fight."
flash-mob seattle washington pike-place-market pillow pillow-fight youtube video humor social via:swannman 2007 Jul 11, 9:54Stats on who uses social networks.
research reference statistics social web 2007 Apr 12, 3:30The FTCs guide to opting out of telemarketing, spam, junk mail including pre approved credit card offers!
junk mail spam optout howto 2007 Mar 30, 3:26Information on reducing phone, email, and physical spam (junk mail & telemarketers). Also has lots of info on other privacy related matters. The sites ugly but I find its easy to navigate and
find the info I want.
privacy security tools junk mail spam 2005 Apr 3, 5:42Surge protector has overzealous marketing
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