We bring you the last TBB Best of Web edition with the latest collection of amazing links for your enjoyment: a shocking story about an art thief titled Masterpiece Theater, ten beautiful lessons learned from tragic 9/11, an amazing link all about country flags, the geography of risk and watch out for them killer robots!
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At every Best of Web post I pick the best reads that blew my mind in the previous week. It can be…anything! I like to be eclectic and despise salesy/clickbait/sameold content you read…everywhere else!
As always, click on the headline to be taken to the original source. Sometimes I insert my incendiary comments on article excerpts between [brackets].
Masterpiece Theater
This is a very wild and bizarre story! It will shock you, sorry no video!
A Dutch gallerist made thousands of forgeries and passed them off as the work of real artists. When he was caught, a new con began.
Story is very long, you have been warned.
Maybe this guy is an art hacker? đ
One of those stories you keep shaking your head about for a long long time afterwards!
10 Lessons I Learned from My Friendâs 9/11 Death
What a wonderful little article, so uplifting rising up from a tragedy!
1. Never turn down champagne
2. Express yourself
3. Donât settle for your life partner
4. Lifeâs too short to be miserable
5. Choose friends wisely
6. Say yes
7. It will get easier
8. Join a community
9. Let go of âstuff.â
10. Laugh
Flag Stories
What a wonderful post…it is all about country flags!
Did you know that the US flag has changed 32 times? The flag of Greece changed 8 times. And Denmark’s? 0!
Enjoy it!
The Geography of Risk
Americans have built $3 trillion worth of property in some of the riskiest places on earth, so why do taxpayers have to pay for the hurricane damage to rich coastal communities?
Deep discussion about this issue.
How do you feel about your taxes going to bail out these people who keep rebuilding in the same places you know it is only matter of time before they get flattened again?
Coming Soon to a Battlefield: Robots That Can Kill
We are not too far from this becoming a reality…
Tomorrowâs wars will be faster, more high-tech, and less human than ever before. Welcome to a new era of machine-driven warfare.
This is most likely the final TBB Best of Web post.
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You should call out Frequent Miler and his two employees on their 40kFaraway crap they are unleashing to their readers. Leaving family and babies behind to go fly somewhere and pound it all over their channels, can you say clickbait and…real life or what? Sadly, this is now only day one. All previous posts before it was…just preparation for their ‘mystery’ trips.
To Greg: Hire a nice looking female so atleast videos are easier on the eyes!
To Nick: Lose that hat, makes you look like a mafia boss!
TBBon!
I must have missed the explanation post, but I’ve been so put off by the dozens of posts they’ve done leading up to it.
I’ve been ignoring most of those posts, but there has been some value – when they’ve learned something in the course of their secret planning for the competition they’ve then spun off into separate posts that have been useful. I could be wrong but I think the Turkish miles for great value on United posts were spurred by their research. And there was at least one other.
I skipped many of these posts based on the titles – but they must have statistics on how popular these posts are and that will probably inform whether they do it again in the future.
George: glad conversion drought is over. I’ve gotten at least 3 (I think 4) cards from your links over the last two years but the fact that I’ll be under 5/24 next March tells you all you need to know about the state of the game (pretty sure I averaged at least 20/24 when the game was good) – relying on signups from an informed group of readers (rather than newbies) unfortunately has nowhere the potential it did years ago.
I think most of my readers are LOL/24…there is a reason Ingy focuses on newbies đ
I just saw Nick post a selfie (with his hat) aboard a plane…do we really need that? So much noise. And yes, no doubt these have click potential. Same with the clickbait and shocking videos the other BA star bloggers do.
I think I am up to 20 links for the Friday post already, so much for smaller posts LOL.
Now we get a play by play account of what they are doing and all I think is…do people read this crap watching 3 older dudes making up stuff for…content purposes? So much 40kfaraway postings is…nauseating!
Oh wait, Nick is in Hawaii and eating shaved ice…Lose the hat man!
Like TBB says…maybe it is time to thin the herd some more and only read positive stuff…
Hey George, now entering week 2 of visiting your beautiful homeland. The people are great, the food is heavy, and the weather is outstanding.
About to cross the Patras bridge!
BC, Do the have any DonPedro’s Taco shops there?
Traveler Tip for Athens…..they like to cram your gyro with french fries and very little meat if they know you are a tourist, beware.
They donât do DP here, afaik. And they dont do Greek food in Vantucky, so Iâm loading up.
I know to order my gyros âsans friesâ…i get more of those great greek tomatoes that way.
bring back a souvlaki souvenir
Hey, Bluecat, will you be visiting the northern part of Greece – aka âreal Macedoniaâ :)? I am up here if you do!
I wish we were. We are headed for Meteora area now.
BTW, I wanted to say thank you to you and your blog for convincing me not to drive here. Your mention of the right of way in traffic circles was an eye opener but the winding roads, the hassles of parking, the road signs in the countryside (in Greek only, and I forgot all thise letters I once knew) and now the rainâ-well, I dis the right thing in taking a local company on a 4 night tour. Pretty cheap, too.
Anyway, onwards through the beautiful countryside.
And to my culinary brother (Ramsey, is it you?): I will eat a pita AND have some baklava tonight!
Enjoy my homeland…Grew up in Larisa about 45 mins east of Meteora!
You will see a pastry type thing there called xalvas. It is popular. Very fattening. You either hate it or love it. I hate it đ
Good call on not driving!
Today’s links were quite wonderful.
Thank you!
TBB Best of Web is dead. Long live TBB Best of Web!
The mother of all phucking conversion droughts is OVER. Not once but twice. Let me see how these add in Ingy terms: It will take many many referral link clicks and several payments for blog posts. Ingy no longer laughs. Thank you readers, you know who you are!
23 days of drought, unbelievable! But it is over…got so excited I already entered 13 links for Friday’s post.
Ok, now some really bad news. United will go dynamic award pricing as previously announced on November 15. But it will now include PARTNERS. Kiss you lie flat Business Class seat goodbye. Can’t wait to see when TPG advances UA and ChaseUltimateRewards point values…Bwahahahahhahaha.
Best of Web links will now be incorporated into Monday and Friday posts. That’s the plan…we shall see.
The comment about the #4okFarAway “contest” about being “real life” was very funny! I agree about hiring more diverse employees, I mean, look at TPG’s hiring đ
@Bluecat: SPEND money, they need it! I have never driven over that bridge. If it was not for the European Union the bridge would have never been built!
You all behave now, going running next!
No more redeeming Alaska on AA metal.
why would anyone in their right mind do that……but a sad day to not be able to do the reverse starting 3/20….get on your knees and pray BA keeps the Avios for AS going forward
Left your handle as is as I do not like Bernie…unlike Nancy đ
I feel like counter-pointing the FM dislikes. Gregâs antics are entertaining to me even when they donât apply to how I use points. I canât name another blog that does creative content like his (although since he stepped back the blog has declined). And it seems like the best cc offers page is the most comprehensive and honest (including non-affiliate links) Iâve seen.
Outside of FM, TBB, & TiF (rest in peace) points blogs are mostly homogeneous with the same links/info and zero creativity.
Whatâs the sayingââdonât let the perfect be the enemy of the goodâ?
I agree on the creative part.
Amazingly, Mile Nerd STILL maintains his best offers credit card page!
http://www.milenerd.com/best-credit-cards/
TiF rest in peace – LOL
Biden is behind all the devaluations!