The trouble with advice like this is, the moment these tips are published, the folks who churn out fake reviews will start trying something different to avoid pinging your radar. It is easy enough to spot the clumsy fakes anyway, and the better ones are constantly evolving.

Actually, not every human has a blind spot. Albinos, for example. In albinism, and in ocular albinism, the macula never develops, all vision is through the peripheral system, and the optic nerve is even wired up a bit differently. I may not be able to see as much as most of you - but I don't have to worry about blind…

@Analog_Olmos: To Say Nothing of the Dog is a great book. It is very high among my favourites. I'll agree with you on that. But Blackout and All Clear are even more amazing and incredible.

How did you do it? As a writer, how did you pull all those threads together, turning a situation that seemed totally out of control into one of the most amazing resolutions I've ever read?

VOTE: TenTimer

#tips Actually, the results you got for "Idol White" are revealing, in their own way. I've done professional research, and learned to tease the maximum possible information out of whatever I could discover. Even with bots to churn this garbage out cheaply, someone went to a certain amount of effort and expense to bury…

@Edie Spencer: Showing up bigots is not being as asshole; it is about as far from assholery as you can get.

sarcasm/ Jawohl, mein Fuhrer! /sarcasm As someone aware that Nazi Germany was the world's first "information age" society (using Hollerith punch card technology) I find the idea of this chilling.

Why is everyone so surprised at this? As long as search results are determined by an algorithm which can be "gamed" (via the right keywords, links, or any other mechanism), there will be a great deal of money to be made gaming them. Just as inevitably, those results will not be in the best interests of most users.

@hyperhead: I'm not happy either, but it is really the fault of the crackers who broke into the database, and most of the folks are Gawker are doing the best they can. Is it possible they have people working for them who aren't the best? Well, that's always possible, but most of them seem to be doing their best.

I have to pick one? Anything invented to fight the Nazis is cool in my book...

I wonder if the "arsenic eaters" (people who grew so used to consuming arsenic they needed to get a regular dose - or they'd die of "arsenic poisoning") are relevant to this discovery in some way. At least, it would seem that the human ability to become dependent on what is normally a poison must hint at some ability…

VOTE: FocusWriter

This is hardly a "universal" test. I have limited vision, and it was impossible for me to see the entire area where boxes were popping up all at once. So most of the results were skewed by that fact in my case - and by the fact they didn't allow for typos in retyping number sequences: if I could have used the…

@aec007: One call will change my mind, every time. I will not vote for anyone who robocalls me. Period. Automatic fail. It's actually a very effective system for screening out the arrogant creeps who think their rise to power warrants disturbing me.

@Aletheia: You just might have Asperger's Syndrome. Sensory issues like you describe are hallmarks of Asperger's, although there are other symptoms, so it is hard to be sure.

@Merricat: I know exactly why the restrictions are in place. The original Social Security system was based on Hollerith punch-card technology - the same technology Nazi bureaucrats used to run the Third Reich. The numbers tattooed on the arms of concentration inmates were Hollerith punch-card numbers. The moment I…

@Merricat: And yet, just as in Canada, it is actually illegal to require anyone to provide their SSN except for those purposes designated in federal law. Sooner or later, some clever lawyer is going to set up a class action suit. That would be one reason your employers and others like them might want to rethink their…

@oneshot719: Since you want to run the search if the quotes are not blank, rather than using the 'less than' operator, it is better to use the 'not equal to' operator: if SearchTerm < "" - and instead of just using the URL, it seems to work much better if you use Run, followed by C:\Program Files\Firefox\Firefox.exe…

VOTE: Cloud - Diigo / Local - Linkman Lite