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The clean coal fantasy
I’m continually amazed at just how often you can hear the term “clean coal” (“carbon sequestration”, “carbon capture and store”) come out of the political arena. I don’t think I can recall another as...
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Fake powerband scam? Power balance is Snake oil in bracelet form.
There’s apparently some unauthorised snake-oil sales going on in relation to the rather too profitable “rubber bands with holograms” industry. Power balance bands: Not endorsed by Harry Potter as yet,...
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How to spot a fake power balance bracelet
Looks like my previous post on the fake power balance bracelet scam is getting some google hits as worried consumers wonder whether they’ve been ripped off. So in this post I’ll tell you definitively...
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Power balance admits misleading and deceptive conduct
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has spanked my old buddies Power balance in a release today: Powerbalance officially admits it is a scam. Background: Powerbalance and the...
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Roshan Abraham invented time travel (or stole a tutorial on webMethods I wrote)
So I’m of two minds on this situation: I wrote a tutorial back in 2004 while teaching a course on an integration platform called webMethods entitled “Crash course on webMethods integration server“. It...
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Urine powered generator? They’re taking the piss!
Saw this pop up on reddit – Four teenagers in Africa invent a Urine powered generator and a BBC article with a picture but no description. Students with their Urine powered generator at Maker Faire...
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