Paypal email #scam

I received this ‘phishing’ scam in my inbox this morning. It’s supposed to be from Paypal, and the ‘hook’ is that my account has been limited or suspended. When I looked at the email more closely, however, I noticed that:

• the sender was NOT from Paypal

From disaster to a delicious biscuit

Okay, for my US friends, our biscuits are your cookies so this is a cross between a sweet lemon cakelet and a ‘cookie’. Ta dah….:

#SFX, cars and ‘The Blackbird’

I’m not a petrol head, but I do like cars so I could not resist a Gizmag article about how cars are filmed for commercials and movies. This is the ‘Blackbird’ and it is the most amazing car you will never see.

Adorable #jigsaw #kitten

I just completed this jigsaw coz the kitten was so gorgeous.

As a jigsaw almost complete:

Orlando changed nothing: The Senate just voted down four gun control measures — Quartz

#Email bills — Christmas for #scammers?

Here in Australia, Origin Energy [one of the big utilities companies] recently introduced gas and electricity accounts sent via email. Good idea? Not so, and here’s a picture of why:

New disruptive tech — aircraft

Just had to share an article about the D-Dalus [a play on words from Daedalus] that appeared on Gizmag, my new, favourite, future-tech site:

#fairness video with #dogs

I couldn’t resist following up some of the information in the previous videos, so here’s one about testing whether dogs are capable of:

1. recognizing that something is unfair and,
2. reacting accordingly

#Brexit first, then #Trump in the Whitehouse?

As an Australian, I’m not that concerned with Brexit and the economic upheaval it may cause. It won’t have a huge impact here so selfishly, I can afford to sit back and just watch history in the making. As a student of human nature, however, I’m…

The #fairness study with Capuchin #monkeys

Watch this video [from a TED talk] and tell me that ‘fairness’ is not hardwired in all of us:

unFeminism and the sticky lock

I don’t consider myself to be a feminist — for a whole host of reasons — but sometimes my unfeminist heart does beat a little faster, and this morning was one of those times. I’d rung a local locksmith to fix my screen door, and who should arrive bright and early but a lady…