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STOP SENDING ME FACEBOOK APPS

Dear everybody,

STOP SENDING ME FACEBOOK APPS. It's absolutely ridiculous how many apps there are and more are being created every day. Do we really need 15 million widgets or three extra walls? How many of us actually care about horoscopes? Trakzor only works if those people have it installed. Why even bother with iLike? Do we really need to know every little thing that everyone else is doing? NO!

Nevertheless, people are completely obsessed with this crap and I am sick of it. I'm not sending anybody any more invitations and I ask that you don't either.

Do we really need another Myspace?

Yuwie scam

http://r.yuwie.com/inmoosewetrust

Use that to register if you're interested.

It's a social networking site that pays you to use it. Tom Anderson (the Myspace Tom) makes over $20 million a month in advertising through his site. Facebook is estimated to be worth about $16 billion. The idea is that the people who made Yuwie want to share some of their revenues with the people who use their site.

Yuwie spammers are all over Facebook so I finally clicked a link and made an account. I also invited two people. It says in my account info that I made 35 cents last month when all I did was set up my profile and invite two people.

It's a promising and revolutionary idea that nobody has tried before. The site started up a few months ago and they only have about 280,000 members. They have 1500-2000 new members every day.

If you sign up right now you shouldn't expect to make any money. However, in a few years Yuwie could grow big enough to compete with Myspace and Facebook.

No, it's not a pyramid scam because they don't force you to subscribe to anything or demand any kind of payment from you. Basically, you get paid based on how active you are (visiting people's profiles, looking at people's pictures, commenting people, etc.).

Then again, I don't make any money off of it, so I guess it IS a scam. Oh well.

Why procrastinating pays off

A lot of times, it's the guy who puts everything off until the last minute that ends up doing the best job on the project. Why? If you spent only five hours the night before on a project that was assigned three weeks ago, you deserve to get a worse grade than somebody who spent long hours every night since the project was assigned. Instead, you got a 93 and your hardworking friend got an 88. This is unfair... or is it?

In reality, procrastination is a talent that is quite difficult to master, and is never a guaranteed success. Students who procrastinate are able to devise an acceptable final product fulfilling all the requirements in the shortest possible time, which makes them extremely efficient in doing projects. Meanwhile, the diligent hard worker often spends long hours and wastes a considerable amount of energy working through every meticulous detail, paying little attention to the natural harmony of things.

As a result of this efficiency, the procrastinators are able to effectively overschedule and cram while still keeping their grades up.

And no, this is true not because the procrastinators are usually really smart and spend a lot of time studying. You have to look at why they're smart, how they study, etc. Generally speaking, they have tighter schedules, more work, and more free time. How is this even possible?

Think about it.

Women and Religion

I've been wondering something:

If most traditional religious practices tend to treat women as inferior to women, why are women so good to religion?

I don't agree that women are inferior to men, nor do I condone most of the practices of any religious doctrine, but I asked several girls about this and none of them had a good answer to this question. So I wrote this note and tagged a diverse group of females to see what they have to say about this.

I have some ideas of my own, but I would like to know what you all think.