Spoof The Number You're Calling From

Heard about this today on my TWIT Podcast. With this card you can actually call someone and spoof the caller ID to show it is coming from any number you choose. Yikes, be careful when you answer your phone.

Also, SpoofCard offers the ability to select a Male or Female voice when making a call. The feature works in real-time and allows the caller to speak in a normal tone while the person on the other end will hear the changed voice.

SpoofCard.com

Scammed on Ebay

In General I Love Ebay and the things I buy off there. I'm disappointed to report that recently I was scammed. I tried to buy a eBay: Wall Street Journal WSJ Subscription -- 6 months (item 6983582352 end time Oct-25-05 16:00:20 PDT)">discount subscription to the WSJ and after 13 weeks it still hasn't show up and the seller is giving me the run around.

Luckily it wasn't a big purchase. Usually I'm pretty savvy about this stuff, and I must admit I was suspicious, but at the time of the purchase, the guy (or girl) had legitimate feedback. Although I was weary of the fact it would take up to 12 weeks to deliver, my thought was that might be some time limit on the amount of time in which I'd have to file a claim. In fact I'm about to find out if that is true.

Anyway, be careful out there in Cyberspace.

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Yep, just as suspected, this guy is a scammer. On eBay you only have to file a dispute within 60 days, and on Paypal it's within 45 days. Unfortunately I used my Bank Account instead of my credit card as the funding source so I got screwed there in terms of dispute options.

So for the record (and I hope the web search engines pickup this scammers name)

Marc Gersen
mgersen@berkeley.edu
ebay ID: mgersen

Is a fraudulent ebay seller.

Burninating 3 Candles!

Another great reason to celebrate the New Year!

Funny Blog Entry from Guy Kawasaki

I don't much care for Guy Kawasaki because he's such a spinster. Usually he's trying to sell crap to people, and they're buying it in addition to anything on backorder. So I give him credit for being one hell of a good salesman, but I think he's usually full of crap.

Well in his blog entry, "The Top Ten Lies of Venture Capitalists", he was actually pretty funny at poking fun at VC's. On some of it he is right on.

The funniest joke I heard about VC's was the one Entrepreneur who wanted to go home with a VC and watch him with his kids, because he didn't think the VC knew how to say "no."

Fun Answers at Yahoo Answers

Is it true that catching a cold has nothing to do with being out in the cold?

See answer.

Robbed at Gunpoint, Barry Harbors 'No Animosities'

I can't believe Washington DC sometimes, and people think SF is nutty? Why is it the only citizens with guns in DC are the criminals? Robbed at Gunpoint, Barry Harbors 'No Animosities'

Wired Magazine's Biggest Discoveries of 2005

Interesting from Wired's Biggest Discoveries of 2005

5. First neuro-cybernaut: Quadriplegic Matt Nagle became the first paralyzed person to control an artificial hand by brain power alone. A "Braingate" chip implanted in Nagle's motor cortex allows him to reach out and grasp objects by thinking about moving his own paralyzed hand. Nagle's neuro-cybernetic interface also allows him to control the lights, TV and a computer. "My mother was scared of what might happen, but what else can they do to me?" Nagle said. "I was in a corner, and I had to come out fighting."