Howto Track Down A Con-artist

Ken, a former "fed" (of some description) on the group blog Popehat, received a "toner-scam" (a scam whereby someone sends you an invoice for a service you never ordered or received in the hopes that you'll pay it without noticing) … Continue reading →

HOWTO track down a con-artist

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Howto Make A Metapizza Out Of Pizza-flavored Snack Items

Kari Schuster constructed a "pizza" out of pizza-flavored snack-foods harvested from gas-stations and grocery stores. The process stained her fingers orange and clogged her nostrils with the "gentle aroma of fake cheese and tomato." She claims it was delicious.

It occurred to me that up until now I had been limiting myself to pizza only in its natural state. It was obvious what I had to do next — find as many pizza-flavored items as I could and turn them into a pizza.[Editor's note: Sweet Jesus.]

Eat —> I’ve Never Meta-Pizza I Didn’t Like (via Neatorama)

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HOWTO tronify your outfit

Limor "Lady Ada" Fried and Becky "Lady Becky" Stern show you how to solder and sew electroluminescent wire borders to your favorite fabric accouterments and create exciting, tronesque glows: "Tote your Thinkpad and port your Apple in style with our custom TRON-inspired laptop bag tutorial. With a little soldering and sewing skills you can have your own light up satchel, sure to impress geeky friends. So grab your sewing needle and soldering iron and follow along."

HOWTO tronify your outfit

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HOWTO be a Michelangelo of work avoidance

Columbia Business School prof Eric Abrahamson studies "leadership and organizational problem solving" and has identified what he calls the "Michelangelos of work avoidance" -- workers who excel at doing nothing without getting fired. Forbes magazine reports on his research:

One of her skills was spending little time at her desk or anywhere near the department where she supposedly worked, so that her bosses didn't even think about her much. Out of sight, out of mind, you might say. "If people don't think of you, they can't give you work," Abrahamson says. Other ways to accomplish that: Arrive at different, unpredictable times of day. Work from home. Set up your schedule so that you frequently change locations.

Another tactic: Don't empty your voicemail box. That way when people call they'll get the impression you're working so hard you don't even have time to delete messages. This has the added advantage of making it impossible for bosses or colleagues to leave you verbal instructions about work assignments.

If your boss does manage to track you down and try to give you some work, you can strategically deploy a kind of good-natured cluelessness. "The principal here is that you try to give work to a person and come to the conclusion that they can't even understand the instructions," Abrahamson explains. In such a case most bosses will figure it's easier to do the work themselves.

If you perform a specialized function within your office, you can distort the time it takes to get it done. Among June's supposed jobs was keeping time sheets for her department's staff. No one else knew the system she'd set up or how long keeping the data took. Thus she could make a task that took minutes appear to consume hours of toil. People with computer expertise who work among Luddites can easily exploit this tactic.

How To Get Paid To Do Nothing (via Futurismic)

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HOWTO kill paper.li mentions on Twitter

I may be revealing too much of my own OCD-ness here, but when a friend pointed me to these instructions for how to ensure you never see another paper.li "So-and-so's Daily" in your Twitter timeline... I wept with joy.

HOWTO kill paper.li mentions on Twitter

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