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This apparently came out a few months ago but I only just heard. Scientists have developed a listening device only 60 nanometers in diameter. Go »Puttin' on the Mitz
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I don't like people who take advantage of generosity. Especially my generosity. Go »Bowtie Affair
I wish I had a video of the event to complement this request, but you'll have to do with my description based on what I've heard from others. Please help resolve an argument. Go »For Real, Yo
It's been a joke for a little while now that "extreme" has become so overused (and subverted by poser advertising execs) that it has actually come to mean the opposite of its vernacular meaning. I hereby submit that "real" (and alternately, "keeping it re Go »
Scott Hardie | January 14, 2002
Okay, I know I post about spam too often. I have this love-hate relationship with it: Even though I hate getting it more than I can express in words, I continually find myself either amused by the content of it or impressed by the techniques that it uses. Case in point, I got two interesting pieces of spam today. One was programmed so that the delete button wouldn't work. I loaded the message in Outlook Express, and tried to press DEL to get rid of it, and a box informed me that such key wasn't valid. I had to drag it to Deleted Items. The other was a trio of xxx messages that took over my screen, 100%, to show me their message, which was very xxx-rated. I'm glad I didn't open that one at an office.