ryan is the supernicety wrote:
] ] AOL's 'Top 10 Spam Email Subject Lines' of 2003:*
] ]
] ] 1. Viagra online (also: xanax, valium, xenical,
] ] phentermine, soma, celebrex, valtrex, zyban, fioricet,
] ] adipex, etc.)
] ] 2. Online pharmacy (also: 'online prescriptions'; 'meds
] ] online')
] ] 3. Get out of debt (also: 'special offer')
] ] 4. Get bigger (also: 'satisfy your partner'; 'improve
] ] your sex life')
] ] 5. Online degree (also: 'online diploma')
] ] 6. Lowest mortgage rates (also: 'lower your mortgage
] ] rates'; 'refinance'; 'refi')
] ] 7. Lowest insurance rates (also: 'lower your insurance
] ] now')
] ] 8. Work from home (also: 'be your own boss')
] ] 9. Hot XXX action (also: 'teens'; 'porn')
] ] 10. As seen on oprah
]
] ] * - Source: AOL. This list is unscientific, and is not in
] ] any specific order. The cited email subject headers are
] ] not ranked by volume.
]
] Also noted in the press release-- AOL blocked nearly half a
] trillion spams this year.

AMAZING! I think I've seen all of these in my own iboxes at least a dozent times each!

RE: America Online | Press Releases

... Congress has taken action that really is worth worrying about.

The Washington Post is not pleased.

Too Much Power

] 0452 GMT (11:52 p.m. EST)
] SPIRIT IS ALIVE ON MARS! A "very strong signal" is now
] being received from the Spirit rover from the Gusev
] Crater on the surface of the Red Planet!

Excellent! Go NASA!

It will be a few days before the rover comes out. All the hardware in question is designed to be operational for 90 days. Hopefully everything is in good working order and it came to a rest somewhere interesting.

] 0603 GMT (1:03 a.m. EST)
] Peter Theisinger, the Mars Exploration Rover project
] manager, says there is a "good" chance that we will
] get the first pictures from Spirit tonight.
]
] "I would stick around if I were you," he just told a
] press conference at JPL.

Very cool!

Spaceflight Now | Spirit Mission Status Center

] Visitors to the United States with visas will be greeted
] with a demand for fingerprints and photographs Monday as
] a government program intended to fight terrorism takes
] effect.
]
] The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says the goal of
] the US VISIT program is to track the millions of people
] who come to the United States every year on business,
] student and tourist visas -- and to use the information
] as a tool against terrorists.
]
] US-VISIT stands for United States Visitor and Immigrant
] Status Indicator Technology.

Don't you just get warm fuzzies all over everytime you are reminded you're living in a police state???

LB

Program to fingerprint U.S. visitors starts - Jan. 4, 2004

] "The Lord has just blessed him," Robertson said of Bush.
] "I mean, he could make terrible mistakes and comes out of
] it. It doesn't make any difference what he does, good or
] bad, God picks him up because he's a man of prayer and
] God's blessing him."

I hope some of Pats followers take his advice and make largish contributions to Bush-whackers campaignn... then try to sue Robertson for fraud if W loses in November.

LB

Robertson: God says it's Bush in a 'blowout' in November

Shorty wrote:
] ] Even as Congress was unanimously approving a law aimed at
] reducing
] ] the flow of junk e-mail, members were sending out hundreds
] of
] ] thousands of unsolicited messages to constituents.
]
] No comment needed.

Yea, like oh... I donno... the national "do not call" registry... that interestingly enough, charities and ***AHEM*** political parties are exempt from??? :-?

Gotta love our elected officials who are so damn callous as to write laws to appease voters, but exclude THEM from having to play by the same rules as every one else.

LB

RE: We Hate Spam, Congress Says (Except When It's Sent by Us)

] Own A Piece of BellSouth History…

] Due to downward trends in payphone usage, BellSouth plans to
] discontinue providing services to its payphone location provider
] customers.
]
] In partnership with BellSouth Public Communications, the BellSouth
] Pioneer Volunteers are offering for sale original renovated and
] completely operational BellSouth payphones and coinbox doors.

No longer do you need a crowbar to have your own payphone..

BellSouth Renovated Payphone Sale

] The CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology is
] celebrating its 40th anniversary by revealing a few dozen
] of its secrets for a new museum inside its headquarters
] near Washington.
]
] Keith Melton, a leading historian of intelligence, calls
] it "the finest spy musuem you'll never see." It is
] accessible only to CIA employees and guests admitted to
] those closed quarters

I'll bet Elonka gets to see this! I'm insanely jealous!! Take some pics with a "Mark IV Microdot" and post 'em, will ya? ;)

Laughing Boy

USATODAY.com - CIA gadgets: robot fish, pigeon camera, jungle microphones

] Charles Wyckoff and his wife had returned home after a
] funeral for their son when the phone rang.
]
] "Hey, Dad," Kevin Wyckoff said.
]
] "Huh. Well, damn boy. We just had your funeral today,"
] his father said Monday, according to a transcript of the
] call provided Wednesday by the Oklahoma Corrections
] Department.
]
] "Yeah, I know. I heard," Kevin Wyckoff said.

THAT would make for a slightly awkward phone call.

Laughing Boy

Son tells stunned parents he's not the person they just buried

Think before you give that CD as a gift.
Remember, when you buy a major label CDs, you're paying companies to sue familieas and marginalize independent music.

What a Crappy Present - CD Gift Advice, Parents and Kids