Archive for February, 2007
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Fraudulent Telephone Tax Refunds, Abusive Roth IRAs Top Off 2007 “Dirty Dozen” Tax Scams
“Taxpayers shouldn’t let their guard down,” IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson said. “Don’t get taken by scam artists making outrageous promises. If you use a tax professional, pick someone who is reputable. Taxpayers should remember they are ultimately responsible for what is on their tax return even if some unscrupulous preparers have steered them in the wrong direction.”
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Five weeeeeeeeird tips for great meetings
You need to interrupt the flow of the meeting regularly. Weird, but useful tips. Some are thought provoking, and some, like, “get rid of the table,” are impractical.
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Fourteen Tips to Reduce eBay Fees : I am a small-time ebay seller, and I have saved a bunch of money by using some of these tips, though I hadn’t read them earlier. Some, like, “Host Your Own Photos”, are really obvious - I wonder why ebay sellers don’t just get a free flickr account or something.
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Ten Leading Open Source Innovators
Includes some companies I have never heard of before. The list is a detailed look at how entrepreneurs are building profitabl businesses around open source products and associated services.
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The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines : Grouped based on the speciality of each search engine. Interesting, but not really useful, until you want to search for that specific bit of info, and you think you need a new search engine.
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Quantum Limit.com: The Top 10 Reasons Why Any Educated Person Should Be Embarrassed For Engaging in Anthropogenic Climate Change Hysteria
lists 10 myths propagated by the movie, “An Inconvenient Truth”. I loved the movie, but I am a rational being, and what is not a fact, is not a fact, regardless of where I find it. So, in the interest of rationality, I thought I’d link to this post. It is written very well, the following made me laugh, “For some reason, Al Gore’s computerized polar bear can’t swim, unlike the real kind, as one might expect of an animal named Ursa Maritimus.”
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Deprived of Words, We Labor On « VeraCity says, “We have their attention for five words.” The article explains how folks don’t have the patience to read anymore, and gives six suggestion for improving on-screen copy and documentation. My favourite is something I learnt to use over time - never use the passive voice - talk directly to the reader
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10 New Uses for Coffee Filters | Life Skills : RealSimple.com
About 100 years ago, a German housewife named Melitta Bentz punctured the bottom of a brass pot, lined it with blotting paper, and — voilà! — made the first coffee filter.
- I didn’t know that! The article lists 10 new uses for your coffee filter - so nice ones in there.
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