Think this ‘get rich quick’ spam is just a scam? Look it up here.

Think this ‘get rich quick’ spam is just a scam? Look it up here. It’s the “Make Money Fast” Hall of Humiliation. And if you did receive spam promising fast cash, well, it probably is a scam.

Think paying for CDs helps poor, starving artists? Think again.

Think paying for CDs helps poor, starving artists? Think again. “Big 5” isn’t just a chinese character encoding system, you know.

New batch of Microsoft security flaws announced.

New batch of Microsoft security flaws announced. Well, it IS Thursday after all.

Taiwan: we’re under constant cyber-attacks from Beijing.

Taiwan: we’re under constant cyber-attacks from Beijing. I wish I could make a joke about it, but frankly China’s stance on Taiwan is starting to look more and more like Japan’s stance on Manchuria in the late 30s.

Wanna be a scientologist? Be prepared to sign away a few rights.

Wanna be a scientologist? Be prepared to sign away a few rights. Including the right to obtain certain types of medical treatment, apparently.

Even small clouds weigh roughly as much as a hundred elephants.

Even small clouds weigh roughly as much as a hundred elephants. There’s a lot of fluffiness about apparently.

Depp: U.S. like a dumb puppy.

Depp: U.S. like a dumb puppy. You gotta respect a guy who actually put his money where his mouth is and is living abroad, unlike a lot of talking heads ([cough]Streisand[cough]Baldwin[cough]Altman[cough])

High heat in the Alps uncovers decades-old corpses.

High heat in the Alps uncovers decades-old corpses. You can just imagine how ripe the smell must be around those parts.

SCO plans to sue Linux customers.

SCO plans to sue Linux customers. I hope they’re also planning on kissing my hairy white butt.

2003-08-29 11:51:33

Google ads have now reached a bizarre peak — I get ads for cactus seeds, despite the lack of reference to either cactus or seeds in any of the articles I’ve put out so far (what’s up with that??). Sorry to say, but at this point I pretty much have to conclude that google’s technical savvy is overrated.