Suggestion/question about post deletions
A member today made 15 posts, of which 13 or 14 contained only the words "100 true" (presumably intended as an abbreviated form of "100% true") with or without "quoting" ... [read more]
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11 11 Earth's magnetic field re-explained by new evidence ...
"Earth's magnetic field shields the life on our planet's surface from cosmic rays. It is generated by turbulent motions of liquid iron in Earth's core. Iron is a metal, which ... [read more]
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4 4 Amazon: first physical store to open
Interesting: the Wall Street Journal reported today that Amazon plans soon to open its first physical store, in Manhattan. Report: Amazon to open retail store in NYC Amazon.com plans to ... [read more]
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29 29 "About as much use as a chocolate teapot ..."
Over here, this is a very common idiom for something being completely useless. But maybe no more: experts were challenged to prove the sarcastic phrase "as useful as a chocolate ... [read more]
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154 154 Gun instructor accidentally killed by 9-yr-old girl with Uzi
Is it ok, now, for people to be teaching nine-year-old children to use an "Uzi"? Arizona gun instructor accidentally shot and killed by nine-year-old girl with Uzi | World news ... [read more]
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9 9 Fully functional organ grown from laboratory-created cells ...
... I'll say that again: at Edinburgh University, a fully functional organ has, for the first time ever, been grown from laboratory-created cells. This is a rather bigger story than ... [read more]
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4 4 Comparative reviews of hosted autoresponder services
It's rather common for people to ask questions about the relative merits and disadvantages of various different hosted autoresponder services. These are basically "review discussions". At the moment, some of ... [read more]
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3 3 "Share" button may share your browsing history, too
"One in 18 of the world's top 100,000 websites track users without their consent using a previously undetected cookie-like tracking mechanism embedded in 'share' buttons. The researchers traced 95 percent ... [read more]
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10 10 Hot Air Balloon Lands on the Moon
It's a really enormous balloon, too. Hot air balloon lands on the moon | All Perfectly Timed (there are some other good photos among those, also).
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9 9 The Guardian Monthly Self-Publishing Prize
This was announced today ... "The Guardian is set to become the first national newspaper to champion self-publishing on a regular basis with the launch of a new monthly prize ... [read more]
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2 2 People are being sued over fake reviews
Ok, they're not actually book reviews. But there are some interesting general comments here about reviews. Real reviews have a greater prevalence of nouns and adjectives; fakes rely more heavily ... [read more]
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2 2 Self-publishing: an interesting pair of blog posts
Very topically, right in the middle of the "awards season", here are the nominations for this year's SFWA "Nebula Award" (i.e. for the books published during 2013): Announcing the 2013 ... [read more]
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21 21 Over 150 authors sold 100,000+ KDP books in 2013
Source: Over 150 KDP Authors Each Sold More than 100,000 Thousand Books in 2013 | The Passive Voice | Writers, Writing, Self-Publishing, Disruptive Innovation and the Universe (a good blog, ... [read more]
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3 3 Book-writing is a spectator combat-sport ...
... in Peru, apparently: Peru makes book writing into a spectator sport and invites aspiring writers into combat | Public Radio International "It's a twist on Lucha Libre, Mexico's version ... [read more]
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19 19 Have to be 21 to buy cigarettes(?) ...
NYC to raise minimum age for buying cigarettes from 18 to 21 - CBS News "Smokers younger than 21 in the nation's biggest city will soon be barred from buying ... [read more]
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28 28 Warrior Racing Combination ...
Here you are: don't accuse me of never posting any good sporting news ... In the 1.50 race at Ayr (that's up in Scotland), Arc Warrior opened at 100/1, shortened ... [read more]
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9 9 Scientists used "wired microbes" to make electricity from sewage
Engineers at Stanford University have devised a new way to generate electricity from sewage using naturally-occurring "wired microbes" as mini power plants, producing electricity as they digest plant and animal ... [read more]
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4 4 Traditional herbal arthritis/inflammation "remedy" proven carcinogenic
This is because of something called aristolochic acid, found in a genus of plants called "Aristolochia" which includes a plant called "birthwort" from which these unlicensed, unregulated herbal remedies are ... [read more]
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19 19 "Reporting" spambots suggestion ...
Now that there are once again "spambots" posting in the forum every day, please would the forum reduce from its current length the time-delay imposed between reporting posts? If wanting ... [read more]
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4 4 The Most Romantic Singers
Interestingly, surprisingly(?), it turns out the most romantic singers are actually male bats. Whoda thunk? Male bats appear to be the sexy singers of the animal world: they have learned ... [read more]
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9 9 Tiny, long-lasting, efficient, environmentally friendly batteries?
Batteries can be made of wood, these days, and the components in the battery tested by scientists at the University of Maryland are a thousand times thinner than a piece ... [read more]
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4 4 Harvesting electricity directly from plants
Researchers at the University of Georgia are now developing a new technology that makes it possible to use plants to generate electricity. Plants are the undisputed champions of solar power. ... [read more]
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22 22 Evolutionary consequences of infidelity
Is extra-pair mating the key to sexual dimorphism? For unpaired males, the offspring produced by extra-pair matings are essential. "In this case extra-pair matings actually reduce the differences between males ... [read more]
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37 37 Newest major health hazard: triangular flapjacks
You just couldn't make it up: BBC News - Canvey Island school bans triangle shaped flapjacks If it had been published next week, on April 1st, I'd be looking at ... [read more]
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32 32 Dietary salt may trigger autoimmune diseases(?) ...
... note: I said "trigger", NOT "cause". New work from the Broad Institute's Klarman Cell Observatory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University, MIT, and Yale University expands the understanding of ... [read more]
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46 46 Do we risk our own privacy with "likes"?
Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science shows that intimate personal attributes can be predicted with high levels of accuracy from "traces" left by Facebook Likes. ... [read more]
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6 6 Brain-to-brain interface allows information-sharing/puzzle-solving
Researchers have electronically linked the brains of pairs of rats for the first time, enabling them to communicate directly to solve simple behavioral puzzles. A further test of this work ... [read more]
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17 17 Unchecked antibiotic use in animals may affect global human health
The increasing production and use of antibiotics, about half of which is used in animal production, is mirrored by the growing number of antibiotic resistance genes, or ARGs, effectively reducing ... [read more]
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19 19 Paralyzed man uses thoughts only to control robot
"Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC describe in PLoS ONE how an electrode array sitting on top of the brain enabled a 30-year-old paralyzed man ... [read more]
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1 1 Suggestions & Questions?
I'm wondering whether it might be an idea for this section of the forum to be for both suggestions and questions? This thought occurs partly because at the moment the ... [read more]
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159 159 NaNoWriMo (November 2012) - Who's In?
I talked myself out of it, last year. I just signed up for this year. Who's in? National Novel Writing Month
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9 9 The Best Salesletter Ever Written?
This is from as long ago as 2006, but tell me, honestly: can any of us match this masterpiece (or do I mean mantelpiece)? The Best Sales Letter Ever Written? ... [read more]
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11 11 When 45 minutes have passed ...
Just for anyone who (like myself, apparently ) has nothing better to do, today ... You have two long fuses, of different lengths, and a lighter. Each fuse contains a ... [read more]
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6 6 EZA Recent Resource-Box Changes Reversed
This is from an Ezine Articles email (yesterday) ... For now, the Resource Box changes made last week were reverted a few hours ago. We'll study the data and look ... [read more]
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122 122 Talking of EZA (and who isn't, these days?) ...
A friend of mine from another forum registered with EZA as a new author a couple of months ago, and subscribed to the email advice series they send out to ... [read more]
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60 60 P.M. Requests for Reviews/Testimonials - Clarification Sought, Please
This has been discussed before, both specifically and tangentially, but continues to be a problem for me. I'd really be grateful for some "moderation input" on this subject, please, Paul ... [read more]
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17 17 The musical octopus
A guy walks into a bar with an octopus. He sits the octopus down on a stool and tells everyone there that this is a very talented animal. "He can ... [read more]
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52 52 Clickbank/Payoneer News
I haven't seen this mentioned here yet, and thought that Clickbank affiliates and vendors, especially those who live outside the US, might be interested in this news about Clickbank payments ... [read more]
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3 3 Not April Fools After All ...
So, it turns out that not every bizarre news story reported today is an April Fool's story after all, and here are 10 stories that could have been April Fools ... [read more]
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316 316 Why do you care about EZA approval times?
I know EZA approval times are slower than usual at the moment. I know they've had a particularly bad couple of weeks (for reasons we all understand), have a lot ... [read more]
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5 5 "Outsourcers"
Call me a wombat ... But why is it that almost everyone here discussing or referring to the subject, describes the workers to whom a job is outsourced as "outsourcers"? ... [read more]
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27 27 English as the official language of Europe
The European Union Commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications (rather than German, which was the other possibility). As ... [read more]
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55 55 Four Aces
Shuffle a standard deck of 52 playing cards well, and then deal cards off the top, one at a time, turning each one face-up. If you do this 10,000,000 times, ... [read more]
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11 11 Felicity's tennis match
To try to encourage Felicity's possible professional career in tennis, her older brother offers her a special prize if she can win two consecutive sets out of a three-set series ... [read more]
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111 111 It wasn't me, I promise
Moderators: please excuse a rather unusual post which I think more people will see here than in "Off-topic", and I respectfully submit that it isn't really off-topic anyway. Over the ... [read more]
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19 19 The Greatest Event of 2010?
Coming up on 8th June, get your telescopes ready.
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41 41 Writing autoresponder messages ...
It's a question for affiliate marketers, really. What proportion of your working time, overall, do you spend on writing the autoresponder messages that go out to the people on your ... [read more]
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7 7 Banana Slug
I'm slightly surprised not to have seen this long-tailed search engine mentioned here. I'm not sure how relevant it is to internet marketing, really, but you can certainly have some ... [read more]
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13 13 Clickbank Marketplace Categories
Looks like there are new marketplace categories coming up next month. Let's hope it makes doing searches a bit easier?
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38 38 Question for Clickbank Affiliates
I'm not (yet) a CB affiliate but am just looking through the stock to see which items I might be well placed to promote via a pre-selling blog page or ... [read more]
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9 9 "eBook Pro 6.0" question
Have any warriors used "eBook Pro 6.0" e-book publishing software/system, with or without its associated Mailloop 6.0 e-mail automation software? Can anyone either recommend it or warn me off it, ... [read more]