Feb. 8, 2008
Attention health nuts
IT World Canada
Unsure if your body can afford to stomach that chocolate bar? Sharky writes of an online tool called Recipe Analyzer that can help you decide.
“Recipe Analyzer is an online tool, recently announced by Dietitians of Canada, which lets users access the nutritional value of recipes. All you need to do is enter a list of ingredients, and you get a full nutrient profile for a serving of that recipe, plus the number of Food Guide servings the recipe provides.”
”Juno” hamburger phone now a hot eBay gadget
Valleywag
Nicholas Carlson reveals the latest item eBay buyers are searching for online.
“Demand for hamburger phones is up 759 percent on eBay since Fox Searchlight released Juno late last year. At a rate of 50 phones a week in January, people are paying as much as $50 to get their own cumbersome 12-ounce device. The plastic phone connects to any regular landline.”
Forget identity fraud, what about Facebook identity fraud?
Techdirt
Mike Masnick raises a good point about social networking site, Facebook and the creation of sometimes fraudulent profile accounts.
“Moroccan authorities have arrested a guy for identity fraud in taking over a Morrocan prince’s identity on Facebook. The details aren’t clear (at all). It could be just that this guy set up an account pretending to be the prince, or he could have accessed the prince’s actual site, somehow. This raises some interesting questions. If you’re simply creating a profile of a real person and acting as that person — is that identity fraud?”