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Mad Mike
What do you make of "Mad" Mike Hughes dying in a quest to prove that the Earth is flat? Go »Goo Turns Nine
Sometimes the goo game can be as hard for me to keep up with each day as it is for you, but generally I'm as happy with it now as I've ever been. Go »Third Party
What is your take on voting third party? I've heard it said that you have a moral obligation to vote for the other party if you believe one of the two major parties has nominated a dangerous person for office, and I don't quite buy that, because I think there's more to voting than that. Go »The Fat Tax
There's been some controversy over the proposed 1% tax on junk food in New York. The money would be spent on combating child obesity. Go »Gerrymandering
Now that a judge has declared Florida's gerrymandering illegal, it has gotten me wondering about the plague of gerrymandering across this country that is shaping elections and accelerating the split between conservatives and liberals. 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.