Admit it we’re all liars. But it doesn’t mean that we like being lied to. SixWise.com has a list of The Top Seven Signs that Someone is Lying to You - put together to help you lie better tell when you’re being lied to.

1. No eye contact. Generally, if someone is lying they will not look you in the eye, at least during a certain part of the conversation. Normally, people make eye contact for at least half of a conversation, so anything less than this could be suspicious. One caveat: there are some people who will take great pains to make eye contact with you even if they’re lying, simply to make you think they’re not.
2. Change in voice. A change in the pitch of a person’s tone, or a lot of stammering (umm, ah), or throat clearing could indicate a lie.
3. Unusual body language. If a person taps their foot a lot, fidgets with their hands, raises their shoulders, turns away from you or brings their hand to their face (to touch their chin or nose, etc.) — in other words, if they act nervous or uncomfortable — it could mean they’re telling a lie. Also watch out for blushing (or becoming pale) and increased blinking.
4. Something sounds fishy. Making statements that contradict each other, are inconsistent or don’t sound quite right are usually part of a lie.
5. Overly defensive. Sometimes when a person is lying they will become extremely defensive, refusing to answer any questions and even accusing you of lying. This may mean they have something to hide.
6. Changes subject easily. If someone is lying and you change the subject, chances are high that they’ll go right along with it. A person telling the truth, however, will likely ask why you changed the subject and want to go back to it.
7. Humor or sarcasm. A guilty person will often try to change the subject using humor or sarcasm.

But until they develop ways to detect keyboard taps when a person is lying you can still get away in cyberspace.

From /.

Warren Buffet, the world’s second richest man, announced over the weekend that he will soon donate 85% of his entire net worth, weighing in at around $37 Billion, to charities, with over 80% of it going to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This makes it the single largest monetary donation in history.

Although many would question decisions like that, one commenter notes:

When you have that kind of money you can get rid of 90% of it and still be extremely wealthy. It’s self generating after a certain point…as long as you don’t spend like Michael Jackson. If anything he will gain more influence. That kind of philanthropy opens all kinds of doors…want an example? Check for opinions on Bill Clinton and Bush Sr. after the fundraising they’ve done for the big Tsunami and Katrina. They didn’t even have to personally donate huge amounts and they both look better than they ever did when they were in office. Buffet and the Gates’ will probably go down in history as the biggest philanthropists of the 2000’s. Hell, depending on what the Gates’ do in the next 20 years, Microsoft might only be a footnote in the history books compared to their philanthropy…same for Buffet.

I guess it’s not always necessarily evil to be rich. This could be my pretext!

With Dayligh Saving Time ending in the Northern Hemisphere and starting in the Southern Hemisphere, I thought this would remind us of how much of a hassle it was for people in the past to adapt to it despite the claimed benefits.

I don’t really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.

The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947, XIX, Sunday.

Here’s a website you can read if you want to know about the history and origins of DST and its implementations over the globe.

About two hours ago a bomb exploded in Jimbaran, Bali, at the beach front of the Four Seasons hotel. It is later followed by a series of other bombings in Kuta Square and a few other spots. My sources (local TV stations) are reporting scraps of information, so accuracy is yet to be confirmed. So far, two died and six injured, two of the six being tourists from Korea.

I’m not sure if it has anything to do with the gas price hike, but things are really crazy down here. Public transport drivers were on a strike earlier today, and people were having a hard time getting to work. This place is becoming a little more uncomfortable to live in every day.

For the rest of the world, I hope you guys have a nice weekend.

I’ve been quite literature deprived since I moved here nine years ago. This year I’ve been trying to catch up with reading and I’ve been searching for free PDF eBooks. Not much luck so far. But today I found PlanetPDF and they happen to have a good collection of downloadable eBooks with titles like Great Expectations and Bram Stoker’s Dracula to name a few. They’re nothing new but I love classic novels, they remind me of my high school days and help me relive the more vivid days of my life, my youth. Anyway, if you’re a sucker for free literature and you don’t mind reading on your computer screen or printing them up, check out PlanetPDF’s Free PDF eBooks section.