Author: Brian Forte

so much cooler than common captcha for thwarting comment spam

Peter Ammon, better known on-line as ridiculous_fish, had a problem: Well, they found me. I knew it was only a matter of time. It happens to every blog. Comment spam, and a lot of it. But nobody told me it...

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The new home ownership: rent the house from your bank forever

The ABC reports on a new ‘solution' to the problem of housing affordability: 50-year mortgages. And they're not just coming to Oz. The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, USA has a similar report from Caroline Lynch Pieroni about 40 – 50...

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psalter and story affected by bog

A mediaeval psalter was discovered in a peat bog in the South Midlands of Ireland (which likely means somewhere in County Laois, the southern-most of the four South Midlands counties) on July 20 2006. Cool and interesting as this is,...

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