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Pseudoscience is what the Houyhnhms politely termed "That which
is not so". Ludicrosities such as free energy, alien abductions, cold
fusion, antigravity, UFO's, perpetual motion, or outright scams.
There are three levels of pseudoscience:
Because so much of it is so mesmerizingly awful, much of pseudoscience
makes for wondrously fascinating reading.
My goal here is to place a big pile of pseudoscience onto a large stage. And
shine a bright light on it. And then get you to personally conclude: "Yup -
that sure is a big pile all right."
The only tiny problem is that an awful lot of it keeps leaking out of the
bottom of the pile.
No attempt is made to separate the useful adjuncts towards porcine
whole body cleanliness from the total hogwash that is linked below.
Many library files require an Adobe Acrobat 7.0 plug in for online
viewing. Offline, these may be accessed by an Acrobat Reader or
an eBook Reader or any other .PDF accepting program.
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Blatant Opportunist #49 BASHPSEU.PDF How to Bash Pseudoscience. Meta studies. Looks like a duck. Binary consequence tree. Ockham's razor. Follow the Cash Avoid negatives. Roswell. Dowsing. Brown's Gas. Homopolar gens. Magic lamps. |
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Resource Bin #86 RESBN86.PDF (March 1999) How to superluminally dowse for Brown's Gas in Roswell. Art Bell Bill Beaty. Keelynet. Saucer Smear. Borderlands. More miles per gallon. Skeptical Inquirer. Preposterosity Du Juers. More. |
Click here for additional Resource Bins.
Click here for Pseudoscience book info.
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Blatant Opportunist #71 ENERGFUN.PDF Some energy fundamentals.. Work, power, & energy. Sources, carriers, sinks. Energy density. Thermodynamics. Efficiency. Exergy. Hydrogen realities. Electrolysis fantasies, Photovoltaics, more. |
Click for a third party Exergy Tutorial.
Click for a third party Net Energy Tutorial.
Click here for the It's a Gas hydrogen resources.
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Tech Musings #153 MUSE153.PDF (september 2001) Bouncy brick secrets. Privatizing mil surplus. Bogus water powered cars. Reducing table lookup sizes. Fundamentals of electrolysis. Quadratic interpolation. Bounty hunting patents for $$$$. |
Click here for additional Tech Musings.
Click here for Patent Avoidance info.
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A New and Genuine Energy Efficientcy Breakthrough Describes the history of Magic Sinewaves, a new math tool that very significantly increases the efficiency of power electronics devices such as electric cars, solar panels, and industrial motores. |
Click here for a Magic Sinewave intro.
Click for a Magic Sinewave development proposal.
Click here to Order MSD-28X chips & source code.
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Outside of their manic devotion to "not even wrong" pseudoscience
concepts, these "must visit" sites appear to be quite well done and
remain more or less objective within their ludicrous framework...
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Jerry Decker's KeelyNet Keely was an early 1900's scamster who used hidden air lines to fake free energy. Jerry's site carefully reports on the scam du Jours . |
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Click here for our current eBay offerings.
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James Mosley's Saucer Smear Magazine In-your-face UFO journalism slams friend and foe alike. Detailed and thorough coverage of Roswell and similar UFO happenings. |
Click here for our Consulting services.
Click here to email Don Lancaster directly.
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These "real science sites" are where the honest and legitimate new
technical developments will take place. Anything conspicuously absent
is highly suspect...
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U.S.Science Magazine from AAAS The leading US scientific journal and second only to Nature in international scope and reputation. |
Check out these MIT Science Courses.
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Top Dog international Journal Nature Magazine British publication is widely regarded as the finest scientific journal in the world. Numero uno itchy ban. |
Check to reach the Google Scholar search engine.
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Scholarly Journal Source Elsevier Publishing Elsevier published many dozens of peer reviewed journals covering a broad range of scientific, engineering, and technical topics. |
Click for Office of Scientific & Technical Information.
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Shawn Carlson's Society of Amateur Scientistsies Attempts to remove the roadblocks that prevent ordinary people, of all ages, from participating in extraordinary science. |
Click to reach the Questia Online Library.
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Bill Beaty's Science Hobbiest Well done personal site is an eclectic mix of legit traditional science plus exploration of controversal and pseudoscience topics. |
Check out Bill's bizarre Free Energy Forum.
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The Guru's Lair eBay Live Auctions Dozens of items usually featuring test equipment, sensors, water soluble swimsuits, robotics, cold war collectibles, bunches more. |
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The Guru's Lair Bargain Pages Surplus and bargain inventory stocked in depth for many of our eBay offerings. Plus rural acreage and water soluble swimsuits. |
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Click here for our current eBay offerings.
Click here for more surplus bargains.
Click for the MOREEBAY.PSL sourcecode.
Click here for more Blatant Opportunist columns.
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My eBay Photo Secrets EBAYFOTO.PDF #22 Hightly detailed tutorial on creating successful eBay product photos. Fundamentals. The "hex" method. The "square" method. Dealing with image theft. Links to dozens of postproc utilities, more... |
Click here for EBAYFOTO.PSL sourcecode.
Click here for the My eBay Secrets tutorial.
Click here for the Son of eBay Secrets tutorial.
Click here for additional GuruGrams.
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Successful eBay Buyer Strategies EBAYBUY.PDF #26 A summary of essential rules for eBay buyer success. Understand proxy bidding. Proxy bid your max. Bid based on total costs. Ask before you bid. Bid odd amounts above resistance thresholds. more... |
Click here for the Auction Help library.
Click here for the EBAYBUY.PSL source code.
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Successful eBay Seller Strategies EBAYSELL.PDF #25 A summary of essential rules for eBay seller success. Offer unique products not available elsewhere. Be a manic and evangelical expert in those products. Maximize personal value added. Bunches more... |
Click here for the GuruGram library.
Click here for the EBAYSELL.PSL source code.
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Blatant Opportunist #70 AUCTSCNE.PDF The live auction scene. Finding events. How to become a crooked auctioneer. Before you bid. Bidding strategies. Seeking value that others miss. Random thoughts. Opporknockity tunes but once. |
Click here for custom Auction Help
Click here for AUCTSCNE.PSL sourcecode.
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Enhancing your eBay Skills ENHEBAY1.PDF #41 Tutorial on advanced eBay topics that include Vickrey auction theory, the Uniform Commercial Code, currency thresholds, theft prevention, live auction guidelines, plus much more... |
Click here for the GuruGram library.
Click to reach our eBay Store.
Click here for the ENHEBAY1.PSL source code.
Click here to Contact the Author directly.
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Logfile Reader & eBay Analyzer ANALOGEB.PDF #28 Tutorial shows how to use new web logfile analysis utilities that include automatic eBay hit reports, eBay image theft detection, plus detailed individual visitor logs. Totally customizable. |
Click for the Web Logfile Analyzer utility.
Click for a Web Logfile Analyzer output demo.
Click for a Web Logfile Analyzer input workfile.
Click here for additional GuruGrams.
Click here for additional eBay help.
Click here for the ANALOGEB.PSL source code.
Click here for additional Consulting services.
Click here to Contact the Author directly.
Click here for new Logfile Reader Additions.
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Digital Camera Swings & Tilts SWINGTLT.PDF #15 A tutorial on our SWINGT01.PSL utility that provides image rectification and distortion correction for 24-bit uncompressed .BMP image files. Makes your vertical edges truly vertical. |
Click here for the SWINGT01.PSL sourcecode.
Click here for the SWINGTLT.PSL sourcecode.
Click here for the Gonzo utilities.
Click here for the Before .BMP testfile.
Click here for the Before .JPG example.
Click here for the After .JPG example.
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Dodge & Burn Tutorial & Utility DODGEBUR.PDF #17 A tutorial on our DODBUR01.PSL utility that gives all sorts of image improvement corrections to .BMP image files. includes dodges, burns, hue & saturation adjust, vignette, chroma, masking, more... |
Click here for the DODBUR01.PSL utility.
Click here for the DODGEBUR.PSL sourcecode.
Click here for the Gonzo utilities.
Click here for the GuruGram library page.
Additional tutorials are found below per this link.
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Bill Beaty's Science Hobbiest Well done personal site is an eclectic mix of legit traditional science plus exploration of controversal and pseudoscience topics. |
Check out Bill's wondrously bizarre Free Energy Forum.
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Bill Beaty's Science Hobbiest Extensive links to genuine scientific and science education sites. Plus big time access to off-the-wall pseudoscience and weird science. |
Also check out Bill's wondrously bizarre Free Energy Forum. You've got
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Handy eBay tools from Vrane Free tools that greatly simplify management of your eBay auctions. Their power bomb is particularly useful. |
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Phrase generator from Quick Phrase Universal free boilerplate generator is a must for any site, auction management or otherwise. |
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Superb IMAGV32 image editor from Arcata Pet My favorite image processing toolset does PhotoShop essentials faster and cheaper. Scale, sharpen, contrast, etc... Free tiral. |
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The Uniform Commercial Code from Cornell Law All US business or auction transactions, eBay and otherwise, must follow these enforcable UCC legal guidelines. |
Click here for the Arizona Revised Statutes.
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HTML & Spell checker from Doctor HTML Quickly finds most HTML structural errors and isolated Browser differences. A most useful tool. |
Click here for a PDF URL extractor you can use with Dr. HTML.
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Magic Knockout Backgrounds KNOCKOUT.BMP These are some of the knockout backgrounds I use for my eBay photos. Besides their subtle texture, they greatly minimize JPEG edge artifacts. View with any viewer. Cut and paste using Paint. |
Click here for the Bitmap Manipulation library.
Click here for our eBay examples.
| Boy, a whole flock of 'em flew over that time | . |
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No attempt is made to separate the useful adjuncts towards porcine
whole body cleanliness from the total hogwash that is linked below
Click here for your own custom regional auction finder
Or email us for a sponsor quote and specific details.
Because so much of it is so mesmerizingly awful, much of pseudoscience
makes for wondrously fascinating reading.
We'll continue here with auction resources of general interest...
Froogle ultimately should provide serious eBay competition
because it has a much better model: No listing fees, no value
fees, true reverse Dutch auction ( prices drop till items sell ),
and each bid is an instant and certain winner.
You can apparently start up your own direct eBay competition
by using the products at Rainworx.
Some other alternatives to eBay include..
Plus these commented links...
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Find upcoming auctions at Auction Advisory Outstanding web services lists thousands of upcoming "live" auctions of all types in most states. |
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Assorted resources from Auction Bytes Includes tutorials, newsgroups, forums, news, archives, links and bunches more for online auction users. |
Click here to reach Web Wholesaler magazine.
Click here for the Wholesale Central website.
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Live and online auction resources at USA Web A web portal and link farm to such resources as Internet Auction Link, Repoman, Auction Marketing Institute, Fast Talker Directory, Auction Talk, and others. |
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Frank Stefanick's Inside the Auction Game Books with useful live auction info in them are exceptionally scarce. This is one extremely useful exception. Professional tips, bidder psychology, bidding techniques, scams, much more. |
You can click here for our own Live Auction tutorial.
You can click here for our own eBay Secrets tutorial
You can click here for our Son of eBay Secrets tutorial
You can click here for our eBay Photo Secrets tutorial
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Government surplus electronics at DRMS/DRMO Master federal directory of US military and related government auctions. Straight from the horses' whatever. .. Or, you can use these power buttons (also on our home page)... Note that with privitization, remaining sales are primarily hazmat |
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Other government surplus at GSA Auctions Online Non military government surplus often gets sold via the General Services Agency. Here's their main access link. |
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Reach the main screen at eBay The number one online auction site. You can also click here to view our own eBay offerings. |
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A second online market at Yahoo Auctions Online auction competitor to eBay seems to be placing a distant second place. Traffic is everything. |
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National Assn of Bankruptcy Trustees at NABT Find out about auctions before they even happen by using this unique resource. |
Click here for Other Bankruptcy Links.
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Arizona auction info Message Board Intended to assist Schools, Governments and Non Profits in finding new users for their surplus items. |
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AZ school auction info Maricopa Community Colleges Site is specific for Maricopa Community colleges, but includes links to ASU, U of A and NAU surplus property disposal sites. |
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AZ school auction info Pima Community Colleges This is really a link to Southwest Liquidators who handle the Pima Community College auctions. |
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Science & Lab Instruments from Lab-X Older resource for buying and selling of laboratory instruments and: related research gear. |
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USA Info Federal Part Specs NSN/NIIN Data Service is free for current Levy-Latham NSN's, but costs $2.50 to $5 otherwise. Often includes more details than a DRMO search. |
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Test Equipment Buys at Bently's Auctioneers Disposes of Los Alamos and other goverment lab stuff. But in-the-know locals advise extreme caution. |
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Small Package Delivery via United Parcel Service UPS Our preferred shipping resource. Just dump the stuff in your front yard and it magically disappears into a big brown truck. |
Check out their obscure UPS Hundredweight service.
Click here to reach their Federal Express competitor.
Chick here to reach their Airborne Express competitor.
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Maps and travel route info via Maps on Us Our favorite of the free web map and routine services. Nothing more embarassing than driving to an auction and forgetting the address. |
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Compare shipping rates at InterShipper Shippers service gives you instant comparisons of UPS, USPS, FedEx, Airborne, and other charges by weight and zip |
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Find (and list!) your local truckers via Listing Browser Here is a Maps on Us warehousing and trucking list for Thatcher, AZ. Change & resave the data for your own local eBay links. |
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United States Post Office USPO Three rate increases ago, we decided they no longer deserve our business. Included here only as a historical archive record. As near as we can tell, the latest rate change is due to increasing |
Click here for Zipcode versus address lookup.
Click here for Zipcode versus towns lookup.
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Trucks and Trailers from U-Haul Often your fastest, cheapest, and simplest hauling or delivery solution. Note that one-way rates continually change with demand. |
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New Trucking Service from FreightPro New LCL and full trucking service seems simpler and cheaper than many locals; works closely with Government Liquidation. |
Also check their American Freight Company and
Freight Resource Center competitors.
| Recommended Real Science Sites: | . |
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Because so much of it is so mesmerizingly awful, much of pseudoscience
makes for wondrously fascinating reading.
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Handy eBay tools from Vrane Free tools that greatly simplify management of your eBay auctions. Their power bomb is particularly useful. |
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Phrase generator from Quick Phrase Universal free boilerplate generator is a must for any site, auction management or otherwise. |
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Superb IMAGV32 image editor from Arcata Pet My favorite image processing toolset does PhotoShop essentials faster and cheaper. Scale, sharpen, contrast, etc... Free tiral. |
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The Uniform Commercial Code from Cornell Law All US business or auction transactions, eBay and otherwise, must follow these enforcable UCC legal guidelines. |
Click here for the Arizona Revised Statutes.
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HTML & Spell checker from Doctor HTML Quickly finds most HTML structural errors and isolated Browser differences. A most useful tool. |
Click here for a PDF URL extractor you can use with Dr. HTML.
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Magic Knockout Backgrounds KNOCKOUT.BMP These are some of the knockout backgrounds I use for my eBay photos. Besides their subtle texture, they greatly minimize JPEG edge artifacts. View with any viewer. Cut and paste using Paint. |
Click here for the Bitmap Manipulation library.
Click here for our eBay examples.
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Full site and eBay stats from WebTrends Pricey software lets you fully analyze your website as well as your eBay hits, and popularity,. Ask your ISP. |
Note that you can easily build your own free custom log analyzers by using
some of the tools and utilities found on our PostScript Library page. Some
new tutorials and improvements are also found in our GuruGram Library.
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Blatant Opportunist #65 MYEBAYS.PDF My eBay Secrets. Fundamentals. Getting stuff. Listings. Images. Geting paid. Closing your sale. Guarantees & refunds. Reserves, Dutch, BIN. Promotion. Storage. Protection. Snipers. Lots more... |
Click here for more Blatant Opportunist columns.
Click here for our current eBay offerings.
Click here for more surplus bargains.
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Blatant Opportunist #73 MOREEBAY.PDF Son of eBay Secrets. Update & continuation of MYEBAYS.PDF The $19.95 minimum sale. Drop shipping & pallet lots. Trucking info Reducing weight. Reducing wait. Not shooting yourself in the foot. |
Click here for our current eBay offerings.
Click here for more surplus bargains.
Click for the MOREEBAY.PSL sourcecode.
Click here for more Blatant Opportunist columns.
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My eBay Photo Secrets EBAYFOTO.PDF #22 Hightly detailed tutorial on creating successful eBay product photos. Fundamentals. The "hex" method. The "square" method. Dealing with image theft. Links to dozens of postproc utilities, more... |
Click here for EBAYFOTO.PSL sourcecode.
Click here for the My eBay Secrets tutorial.
Click here for the Son of eBay Secrets tutorial.
Click here for additional GuruGrams.
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Blatant Opportunist #60 EBAYPHEN.PDF The eBay Phenonomen opens up new possible revenue streams. Intro. Photos and art images. Promoting the goodies. Mining the seconds. Some secret guidelines. For more help. |
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Blatant Opportunist #67 STEPPREP.PDF Secrets of Step-by-step Image Prep. Postprocessing. Scanner vs camera. knockout knockouts. Pixel locking. Adding detail. Improving lettering. The small stuff. For more help. |
Click here for a companion bitmap.
Click here for STEPPREP.PSL sourcecode
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Blatant Opportunist #70 AUCTSCNE.PDF The live auction scene. Finding events. How to become a crooked auctioneer. Before you bid. Bidding strategies. Seeking value that others miss. Random thoughts. Opporknockity tunes but once. |
Click here for custom Auction Help
Click here for AUCTSCNE.PSL sourcecode.
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Arizona Auction Resources Tour AZAUCT01.PDF #44 A tutorial guided tour of some Arizona Auction Resources. Classified ads. Auctioneer associations. The biggies. Government Liquidation. Good old boys and gals. Schools. Heavy equipment. more... |
Click here for the GuruGram library.
Click for a Custom Auction Finder resource.
Click here for the REBOUND1.PSL source code.
Click here to Contact the Author directly.
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Blatant Opportunist #65 REFURB.PDF Don' Thoughts on Refurb. Reselling test equipment on eBay and elsewhere. Establishing value. Scoring the goodies. What to avoid. Manuals. Actual refurb. Stripping. Oscilloscopes. More... |
Click here for more Blatant Opportunist columns.
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Blatant Opportunist #59 WEBIMAGE.PDF Don looks at web imaging secrets. New "scanner" method. Image data formats. Bitmaps, GIF, JPEG, Acrobat. Getting your image on the web. Some eBay specifics. Image prep secrets. Editing methods. |
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Blatant Opportunist #57 IMAGIMAG.PDF A scanner makes a ridiculously better digital camera than digital camera does. Here's Don's insider secrets on propping, scanning, enhancement, and conversion of digital images. |
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Blatant Opportunist #54 AUCTION.PDF A look at the Surplus and Auctions scene. Some useful venues. Community colleges. Mil surplus. Distress sales. Hamfests and online auctions. Some guidelines. The "Never be underbid "ploy. |
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Resource Bin #81 RESBN81.PDF New Secrets of mil surplus, part I DRMS web sites. Finding offered items. Local, national, RCP, and group sales. Other Sales. Condition codes. Efficient markets and typical prices. DRMO base list. |
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Resource Bin #82 RESBN82.PDF New Secrets of mil surplus, part II Where were we? Winners and losers. A "never be underbid" ploy. The bidding process. Getting the goods. $24 jeeps? Free surplus? For more help. ISMM contest. |
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Tech Musings #153 MUSE153.PDF september 2001) Bouncy brick secrets. Privatizing mil surplus. Bogus water powered cars. Fundamentals of electrolysis. Reducing table lookup sizes. Quadratic interpolation. Bounty hunting patents for $$$$. |
Click here for Live Auction bargains.
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Resource Bin #73 RESBN73.PDF Insider secrets of electronic surplus and auctions. Hamfests. Government & Military. Electronic surplus. Web sites. Schools. "Closeouts." Auction pubs. Auction houses. Contest. |
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Tech Musings #148 MUSE148.PDF Algae hydrogen source. Applying Taylor Series. Surplus & auction update. Lithium polymer batteries. Understanding nonlinearity. Battery books. Cave radio site, Maxim chargers, more... |
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Tech Musings #133 MUSE133.PDF A military surplus update. AC and DC lamp dimmer fundamentals. Some selected magnetic recording books. A SETI search invitation. CD and web USGS maps. |
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Tech Musings #128 MUSE128.PDF A look at used test equipment. Some Tesla Turbine lit. How to buy military surplus electronics. Impulse radio communications. New Class D amplifiers. Merry-go-round horses. |
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Tech Musings #121 MUSE121.PDF FM Wireless Broadcasters. The Radio Shack 12-2051. Surplus and auction update. A homopolar traction motor. A new power measurement chip. Understanding the Faraday Disk. Cool cars. |
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Resource Bin #87 RESBN87.PDF Exploring used test equipment options. The foremost rule. The blue book. Some sources. Hamfests. Newsgroups. Auctions. Mil surplus. Online auctions. For more help. ISMM III contest. |
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Tech Musings #107 MUSE107.PDF SX laser printer repairs, linear phase digital filters, home theater opportunities and resources, debunking some techno-myths, improved access to government surplus electronics. |
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Resource Bin #06 RESBN06.PDF An intro to the wondrous world of electronic surplus. Military surplus. Hamfests. Wholesale sources. Personal favorites Commuinty college auctions. Industrial surplus. (older classic) |
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