Epic Ebola gaffe stuns weekly magazine

It is said that timing is everything. It can work in your favor, or it can induce cringes.

In the case of the Dallas Weekly magazine, timing could not have been worse.

Online news blog Truth Revolt noticed this tweet and reported on it: "The magazine Dallas Weekly had a real gaffe last week with one of the most poorly timed covers in memory. Just as the city is cleaning up and sterilizing the places where Ebola victim Thomas Duncan visited after returning from Liberia, the magazine published online their latest issue, featuring the sure to be infamous cover and headline  'Taste of Africa Comes To Dallas.'"

Ouch!

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The Patriot Nurse

Meet The Patriot Nurse. She is an RN with a BSN. Besides her work in the United States, she also has done medical missionary work around the globe. This week finds her in Tel Aviv.

The Patriot Nurse's latest video deals with ebola. In another she discusses the possibility of an ISIS attack using bio-weaponry. She offers practical information on how to cope, offering reassurance and common sense methods to defend and/or treat illnesses and potential viruses.

The Patriot Nurse offers tips on where to get inexpensive medical supplies in this video. You can read more at her website The Patriot Nurse.com or on her Facebook Page.

A Conservative View

Who are the true political conservatives? Here's a way to find out – Conservative Review is an excellent reference website that's always up to date. You can personalize your "tracking" of specific politicians in your state or county.

A reader writes:

"Here is a very neat website where you can listen to your city/county/state police/fire/EMS transmissions just like a scanner, for FREE on your computer.

"Go to the site, find the map, click on your state, then click on your county.

"A list of possible feeds pops up, and you can even choose what media player you want to use to listen with.

"Great for laptops, and you can put the feed in the background to listen to while you continue to surf the web, etc. It's called Broadcastify."

Back in the day...

"In 1946 the tax on gasoline was $0.015 federal and $0.03 state for 4 1/2 cents per gallon. Now it is $0.184 federal and $0.24 state tax for a total of 42.4 cents/gallon. The 1946 sign state 11.2/10 cents plus 4 1/2 cents tax. So 11.2 cents in 2014 dollars (inflation) equal about $1.43/gallon and inflation of the tax would be about 45 cents pretty close to the current taxes of 42.4 cents." - Stephen P. Hall

Stephen P. Hall, a former executive with the Beverly, Massachusetts, Historical Society, posted a couple of photos on his Facebook page, noting that gasoline pricing is relative to the times and incomes we earned.

"I think the wartime price controls were still on in early 1946, and this might explain the price differential. I remember this 20 cent per gallon photo ... from before the war, in 1938. So gas in 1938 cost more than in 1946. Here is a handy tool for apples to apples comparisons."

Spooky!

This Halloween, look out for flying grim reapers!

Watch this scary goblin swoop in and spook unsuspecting bike riders, moms and kids! Posted last year on YouTube, "Epic Halloween Prank" video has had well over six million views.

How did he do it? Watch this "behind the scenes" video to find out.

Also, check out these side-splitting and very punny Halloween costumes. My fave?

The ceiling fan! Go, ceiling!

Mental Floss

Have you ever wondered where the dollar $ign comes from? No? Me either. But now that we've brought it up, where DID the "s-like" symbol originate? Well, the fellow at Mental Floss says he doesn't know either, but ... he has a theory. Here it is.

How is decaffeinated coffee made? Mental Floss has an answer for that too, along with many other answers to questions you might not have ever considered!

Social media kingdom

Twenty percent of the global population resides at Facebook.

Hootsuite, a social media strategy company, took a look at the recent launch of Facebook's Research website and came up with a few observations. Hootsuite commented about how ingrained the Facebook social network has become in the daily lives of its 1.3 billion users in the past ten years: "With this number of monthly active users, if Facebook was a country, it would be home to nearly 20 percent of the world population."

Hootsuite touts Facebook's Research site as easy to navigate and distilled Facebook's most interesting, strange and helpful research results: "Want more people to comment on your status updates? Ask your Facebook friends for help or recommendations.

"Commenting on status updates helps you build relationships better than simply liking them," the site explains.

"Can you guess the most influential piece of literature for everyone? Facebook meme shows us what it is according to Facebook users (spoiler alert: it’s the Harry Potter series)."

For more "Cliff Notes", click here. And for all you tech nerds, read the original Facebook Research website here.