Job Interview With The Devil – What Would You Do?

On August 31, 2010, in Neurotica, by Wilfried F. Voss

Apply for a job. Any job. It doesn’t matter. Just make sure the devil will like the job description, and I am sure, once he approves, you will get it. If not, don’t complain to me. Please address your concerns to… you know who…

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Charlie Brooker: Rightwingers Are Brilliant At Creating Snappy-But-Misleading Nicknames

On August 31, 2010, in Lifestyle, Neurotica, Political Comments, by Wilfried F. Voss

I bring all this up because I’ve been thinking some more about the “Ground Zero mosque” debate. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about the horrible brilliance of the opponents’ endlessly parroted, emotionally charged phrase “Ground Zero mosque”, used to describe something which – at the risk of regurgitating last week’s column – isn’t at Ground Zero and isn’t a mosque.

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Bristol Palin Coming to ‘Dancing With The Trash’

On August 31, 2010, in Lifestyle, Neurotica, by Wilfried F. Voss

Is your name on the casting list for the US show Dancing with the Stars? If yes, you are on the way into D-level prominence. Whoever joins the spectacle has nothing to loose.

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Can you really be happy for somebody else?

On August 16, 2010, in Annabelle Charbit, Guest Writers, Lifestyle, Neurotica, by Annabelle Charbit

This page examines whether we can really be happy for another person, particularly when their achievement strikes a blow at our own sense of self worth.

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Internet Search Engines – Meet 44 Year Old ELIZA

On July 17, 2010, in Neurotica, Technology, by Wilfried F. Voss

Looking at attributes like identification of keywords, discovery of minimal context, choice of appropriate transformations, generations of responses in the absence of keywords… Isn’t that exactly what we are looking for in a search engine?

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Anakin Skywalker Suffering From Borderline Personality Disorder?

On June 10, 2010, in Lifestyle, Neurotica, by Wilfried F. Voss

Thanks to the work of French researchers, we now have a detailed diagnosis of the mental health challenges faced by Star Wars’ (evidently misunderstood) arch baddie Darth Vader.

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The Curse Of Revealing A Scam

On June 10, 2010, in Blogging, Making Money from Home, Neurotica, Scammers, by Wilfried F. Voss

The success of my blog is based mainly on my reporting about the current Internet scam, may it be the Kelly Richards scheme, FastNetLearning.Com, or the Weight Loss (Acai Berry Diet) scam. More and more people find my website and try to cancel the scam services I report about. Yes, they contact me to cancel their service!

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We Are Interested To Increase Traffic To Your Website

On May 15, 2010, in Blogging, Neurotica, Scammers, by Wilfried F. Voss

Just recently I read an article in one of the online newspapers about companies in India offering their service to circumvent captcha-enabled comment or contact forms. They hire human beings to log on to websites and manually enter their customers’ message. I believe, that my website – like many, many others – is now a target of such services.

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Top 10 Reasons Why I love Twitter

On April 27, 2010, in Blogging, Neurotica, Technology, by Wilfried F. Voss

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with Twitter is uselessness. – Originally by George Bernard Shaw; twisted by Wilfried F. Voss

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What The Heck Is Ploughshares?

On April 27, 2010, in Neurotica, Writing & Publishing, by Wilfried F. Voss

If it takes several minutes of educated guessing to find out what Ploughshares possibly represents, you have lost a potential subscriber, and the free Ploughshares tote bag won’t convince them, either. Yes, I could log on to the Internet and get more information, but, honestly, why should I? You already wasted enough of my time.

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