I've been hearing about the so-called "ancient aliens" for most of my life. I have to admit that I was very curious about them as a young man, but gave it little thought when I grew-up. Somehow, it didn't seem very logical that aliens would even bother to come here when we were relatively primitive and give us all kinds of help, but not to return when we really might have needed them during the years of the Cold War when the United States and its allies were on the brink of nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
Not to mention those times in human history when we faced devastating epidemics like bubonic plague, smallpox, influenza and others which threatened to wipe-out our entire species.
The History Channel has often been one of my favorites because I've always liked to learn new things. Unfortunately, they have often given airtime to pseudoscience as if it were on par with real science and this is the case with their recent "documentary" on aliens who supposedly came to Earth during ancient times.
Lacking the time to do an in-depth debunking of this documentary myself, I found some one who has done a recent set of videos debunking the documentary on YouTube.
SuperSoylent has a channel on YouTube where he posts videos debunking pseudoscience claims of all kinds and he posted these two videos today. Please check out his channel and subscribe if you have an account there.
If you own or are thinking about buying books, tapes, DVDs any of the crap marketed by the evangelists of the Ancient Alien hoax, it could save you a lot of time and money to watch both of these videos in their entirety.
Duane Browning
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Recycle Soap Slivers
I've seen numerous articles on recycling soap slivers. I have to admit that there are a lot of ideas out there that would never have occurred to me, but I believe that many of them are too time-consuming or are just inadvisable.
The idea of making soap-on-a-rope or placing slivers into a fabric pouch in order to continue using them may see like an economical way to get the most of your old slivers. But, the pouch itself could turn into a breeding ground for bacteria which manage to survive long enough to develop immunity to the anti-baterials in the soaps. It's better to just use them up as quickly as possible.
Another idea is to meltdown old slivers and make a new bar out of them. While this may attract people in the Do It Yourself crowd, I doubt if most people have this kind of patience or want to stockpile slivers until they have enough to make a whole bar.
Two ways that I have found to get the most of my slivers are quick, easy and really don't require much effort.
First, you can use them to help keep your toilet bowl clean:
The idea of making soap-on-a-rope or placing slivers into a fabric pouch in order to continue using them may see like an economical way to get the most of your old slivers. But, the pouch itself could turn into a breeding ground for bacteria which manage to survive long enough to develop immunity to the anti-baterials in the soaps. It's better to just use them up as quickly as possible.
Another idea is to meltdown old slivers and make a new bar out of them. While this may attract people in the Do It Yourself crowd, I doubt if most people have this kind of patience or want to stockpile slivers until they have enough to make a whole bar.
Two ways that I have found to get the most of my slivers are quick, easy and really don't require much effort.
First, you can use them to help keep your toilet bowl clean:
- put the sliver in a place where it can dry-out completely;
- take your sliver of soap and break it into very small pieces, about the size of a fingernail clipping;
- place the pieces in your toilet tank shortly before you go to bed that night or just as you are about the leave the house for the day, this will allow the time for the pieces to begin to dissolve in the water;
- when you get home, flush the toilet and the incoming water will be cloudy with dissolved soap and you simply take your toilet brush and scrub the inside of your bowl.
The beauty of this idea is that you're not using caustic chemicals to clean and disinfect your toilet bowl. If your soap already is anti-bacterial, that part is taken care of for you. Plus, you're not spending the extra money to buy toilet cleaners.
A second idea is to use your old slivers to make an extra bottle of cleaner:
- put the sliver in a place where it can dry-out completely;
- once dry, break it into very small pieces or you can use a mortar and pestle (or some other tool, like a spoon) to powderize it;
- place the pieces into an old soap bottle or any other type of bottle that has a spout;
- add water, shake the bottle to mix the pieces so they will dissolve and not clump-together;
- set the bottle aside for the soap to dissolve
I like this way better, since I can use it for all sorts of things, from cleaning my toilet bowl to trash cans.
Duane Browning
Duane Browning
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Filing Complaints With Domain Registrants
As of today, these are the page views for my posts about GIFT50.COM and GETMY100.COM
That's a lot of pageviews for posts that aren't very old. I have more views for my post about GIFT50 than for all my other blogposts combined. While I have GoogleAds and I have made a little bit of money from the ads on those posts, I've decided that this can't go on forever. There has been no noticeable decrease in pageviews for these posts, despite my inclusion of contact information on where people can file complaints.
So, let's get started in filing complaints against them with the companies they bought their websites from in the first place.
GIFT50.COM is owned by the same person who owns MONEY500.COM, MONEY600.COM, LAPTOP55.COM and over 100 other domains.
Given that over 2000 people read my original blogpost on this guy, I think Namecheap might have cancelled his website if they had received that many complaints in the two months since I posted it.
GETMY100.COM is registered by Domains By Proxy, Inc and this service is for people who don't want others to know who owns the website. However, Domains By Proxy does have its own website where you can file complaints.
Simply go to https://www.domainsbyproxy.com/Default.aspx and click "File A Claim". Mention that you received the message via cellphone text, so there are no email headers to forward to them.
Duane Browning
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So, let's get started in filing complaints against them with the companies they bought their websites from in the first place.
GIFT50.COM is owned by the same person who owns MONEY500.COM, MONEY600.COM, LAPTOP55.COM and over 100 other domains.
Registration Service Provided By: Namecheap.comIf you want to file complaints against this guy, send your email to support@namecheap.com. Tell them that you received the message via text message on your cellphone and include the complete text message that you received. If you received more than one text message, tell them that too and also mention if you have to pay for any texts you receive on your cellphone plan.
Contact: support@namecheap.com
Visit: http://namecheap.com
Domain name: gift50.com
Registrant Contact:
Nick Brown ()
Fax:
244 5th avenue
ste 282j
new york, NY 10001
US
Administrative Contact:
Nick Brown ()
+1.6463388558
Fax: +1.5555555555
244 5th avenue
ste 282j
new york, NY 10001
US
Technical Contact:
Nick Brown ()
+1.6463388558
Fax: +1.5555555555
244 5th avenue
ste 282j
new york, NY 10001
US
Status: Locked
Name Servers:
dns1.name-services.com
dns2.name-services.com
dns3.name-services.com
dns4.name-services.com
dns5.name-services.com
Creation date: 02 Feb 2011 22:33:00
Expiration date: 02 Feb 2012 17:33:00
Given that over 2000 people read my original blogpost on this guy, I think Namecheap might have cancelled his website if they had received that many complaints in the two months since I posted it.
GETMY100.COM is registered by Domains By Proxy, Inc and this service is for people who don't want others to know who owns the website. However, Domains By Proxy does have its own website where you can file complaints.
Simply go to https://www.domainsbyproxy.com/Default.aspx and click "File A Claim". Mention that you received the message via cellphone text, so there are no email headers to forward to them.
Duane Browning
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