| Start: | Oct 14, '10 7:00p |
| End: | Oct 15, '10 |
I hope some of you will do as I do also, and make a point of visiting unusual web sites of no interest to you just to make it harder for the companies above to "profile" us as individuals.
After all, its the smart gopher or mole who doesn't come out of the same burrow in the ground twice. And it does no harm.
Off to visit some off-the-wall sites. See y'all later!
"Simplify, simplify, simplify."--Henry David Thoreau "Walden Pond"
I may poodle off to Ancient Rome, where I will try not to be tempted by anything. I may make off with a pair of Gladiator freebie sandals though. :-/
ReplyDeleteDang, I didn't know about this and had my daughter pick some stuff up from the grocery store for me today. Yes, it could have waited, but I honestly didn't know.
ReplyDeleteNext time you want to do this, please post it a day or 2 early. I normally only shop once a month, then I run out of money, but there are some things I grab occasionally (mostly books) during the month.
lol I went to a site called "webebananas.com" today. Is that unusual or weird enough?
ReplyDeleteAn excellent move on your part, Cassandra. Since you have developed connections to that lady in Ancient Rome, you're already right at home where consumer profiling is a thing of the distant future.
ReplyDeleteI've always wondered how great it would be to go back in time and find treasures of writing on scrolls or Greco-Roman art looking brand spanking new, or just plain old sandals.
Might be lucrative if brought back to the modern world and if one found the right buyer, but, even if the museum curators told the buyers the stuff were fakes and not worth a penny, I could keep them as great conversation starters.
"This is a nice little previously lost ode of Horace, don't you think?" :-)
Sorry for not getting the notice out earlier, Jacquie. I'll do better next year.
ReplyDeleteI think shopping for food is just fine any day, and buying books is always all right--especially if you find a nice well-thumbed volume of something you've always wanted in the second-hand shops.
It works for me. I just visited some macrame sites and looked into planning a trip to Armenia. I'm taking your lead and heading for webebananas,.com now!
ReplyDeleteThis is excellent Doug may I recommend both http://www.bagnboxman.co.uk/acatalog/raffia.html and http://www.stuffed-animals.com/ .......both of which I have been contentedly browsing all evening.
ReplyDeleteI am anticipating interesting predictive targeting over the next 24 hours
Fascinating sites, AA. I am resisting the temptation to order one of those cute stuffed black-footed penguins right now. (I saving my money for that trip to a landlocked former Soviet Republic I've always promised the missus.)
ReplyDelete<----taking my knowledge of Latin and ancient customs and jumping in the time-machine....
ReplyDeleteGood grief! I've started a trend!
ReplyDeleteNot the one I intended, but still....
I strongly encourage everyone to buy from Amazon. Shop to you drop baby. My family needs to continue to eat and they ship their packages with my bread and butter.
ReplyDeleteAll viewpoints are welcome, Fred. I forgot about the hard-working folks in the mail and shipping industry.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it wiser to use shipping tape for packaging rather than something slippery like butter?
Butter is bio degradable. We must be environmentally friendly
ReplyDeleteOK, you're the expert. And very "green" too.
ReplyDeleteI m not sure about that
ReplyDeleteDepends on where the butter comes from. The cows may have been fed with palm kernels from plantations where deforestation is rife and orangutans are being killed.
ReplyDeleteDon't watch the video if you have a weak stomach
http://www.fonterra-secrets.com/?fb#
How horrible! You mean they can't raise cows on grass or hay--they have to tear up a the forests now for milk products?
ReplyDeleteThe human race can be a piece of work, Iri Ani.
Are you just realizing this?
ReplyDeleteIndeed I have been keeping up with this campaign because somehow I am in Greenpeace NZ (as well as the UK branch of course) so I get the emails.
ReplyDeleteThis total attack on a whole ecosystem for profit is absolutely sick, Fonterra are a disgrace to humankind and deserve the most severe of eco-crime punishments available, which is to be boycotted and ignored by consumers, driven out of the marketplace by consumer sovereignty..... by our refusal to tolerate such social irresponsibility and monstrous offences against nature.
We all have a duty to remove Fonterra as a viable business and to reduce its shareholders to gibbering wrecks I think. Yes, that would be a good move, let's do it!.
No, I came to this conclusion last week Fred. ;-)
ReplyDeleteWell put AA! Plus, its harder to order forests deforested and our fellow primates killed off when you are a gibbering wreck.
ReplyDeletePlease don't ask me how I know this.