Jan 23 2008
Ahh, Yahoo! Answers. A place where anyone can ask a question and have it answered by…well, anyone. When pressing personal problems confront you, why wait for the sage advice of Abby, Margo, Carolyn, Amy or myriad others, when you can have your question answered right now by the unwashed masses?
Yahoo! Answers is simultaneously one of [...]
Jan 21 2008
(In which we count the number of things that are wrong or suspicious within a scam e-mail message, just for sport.)
This showed up in my mailbox this morning, and I think it’s better than most:
To: lscfhafes@4d2.org
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:05:13 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Congratulations!!! You Have Won One Million Euro…Contact Your Claims Agent.
From: “Westdeutsche Lotterie [...]
Aug 10 2007
Today I received what is probably the strangest phone call ever to work its way through Sprint’s pathetic cellular network. The caller was an anonymous European-sounding man, and he was upset over threats that I had apparently made against his website. I had no idea what in the world he was talking about, but I [...]
Aug 01 2007
People of the world - those with access to a computer which has internet access and enough skill to navigate to news pages and splay your insightful comments on the problems of today below a BOOK REVIEW - would it kill you to cite some sort of evidence for your opinion? Personal experience is [...]