Advertising gives weird messages sometimes. The Lipitortm commercial showing the model tripping? The implication is that wearing a size 6 dress causes high cholesterol levels. There’s a Country Crocktm ad which clearly implies there is no need for risky, expensive IVF procedures; just eat the product; you’ll be pregnant in no time. Advertising in different fields may be more useful; here’s a story about the increasing number of projects using distributed computing (got computer? Not using it part of the day?) to solve scientific puzzles. Think SETI or Mersenne Prime numbers. A list of these projects is available here.
Here’s some news about less savory projects: Nigerian cyber-caf?s are cracking down on some of their fraud-happy customers. On a brighter note, perhaps you’ve heard of the dog aboard an abandoned ship? Well, she’s still there at this writing; part of the problem (said quite seriously) is that the dog understands only Mandarin!
thank goodness the cybercafes are cracking down. i’m ever so tired of that scam spam stuff.
Gee, I thought the dog was rescued by now…