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Phishing Spam
Of course, the pox-ridden drones don’t even read their own email, but sadly there are just enough people out there who will fall for their phishing scam and log in to the fraudulent page, happily...
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Progressive Insurance Company: Run away, run away fast.
Aside from complaint pages like you see behind the link, Progressive has now totally destroyed any semblance of reputability by posting blog spam, one of which I just received. I was wondering if you...
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Clovis Fernandez, Brazil’s “12th Player.”
News media published this image of a sad Brazilian fan, Clovis Fernandez, shown crying. What they did not publish was this image: This beautiful picture shows Senhor Fernandez handing the trophy to a...
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Avoid businesses that blog spam
“I am genuinely thankful to the holder of this website who has shared this fantastic article at here.” Look at that great grammar. So commented “Bad Credit Car Finance,” an outfit in Orlando, Florida,...
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The first public phones in Los Angeles, 1899
Seen at /r/HistoryPorn, additional information from Retronaut. “228 So. Spring St.. The first telephone line between San Francisco and Los Angeles had just been opened, and long distance calls to the...
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Coney Island, July 4, 1946
That’s a lot of people. Made me think of similar pictures of crowded beaches in China – the linked ones are of China’s Qingdao Huiquan Beach. The brochure photo probably looks a lot different: But...
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How Blog Spam is Generated
I’ve talked about blog spam a lot, because I get a lot of it here. Akismet takes most of the pain away automatically, for which I love them, but the occasional piece of camel ejecta filters through...
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A shout-out to Weird Al Yankovic – Word Crimes
I make misteaks when I’m writing. But I try not to make big ones, and I do my best to correct them when they occasionally crop up. These gigantic erasers have been around since I was a kid in the 50s;...
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Comcast: they’re as evil as you thought they were
Recently a sound file has gone viral, in which a Comcast customer “service” rep brutally disallows a customer from disconnecting his service. It’s painful to listen to. In the wake of this event, a...
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My First German Scam Email
The phishermen are casting a wide net. Here’s my first phishing email in German, with headers: Return-Path: majorapp@bronco.websitewelcome.com Received: from imta34.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (LHLO...
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The Chalk Mark
You’ve probably heard the story in various incarnations. An old Navy chief, an engineer, an auto mechanic – you name it – he’s called in to diagnose a problem with some sort of engine or device. He...
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Grammer and the Internet
Saw this on Facebook today and it brought a collection of things to mind. In light of Weird Al’s recent “Word Crimes” video, I thought I’d share them, in no particular order. Of course, things can...
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The last of the 1800′s crowd
Each of the individuals below was born, not in the previous century, but in the one before that. Misao Okawa, F, Born 5 March 1898, Japanese Gertrude Weaver, F, Born 4 July 1898, American Jeralean...
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“We have been selected” (A come-on from Save On Resorts)
Last week we got a postcard in the mail (I should have thought to scan it, but didn’t realize I’d be writing about it until after the fact.) It had a big picture on the front of a Southwest Airlines...
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Kevin Richardson’s “Miracle Cure,” an Infuriating Scam
So here’s the email that showed up in my inbox today: From: Ultimate.Cure.17690762 <your.miracle.cure@highly-wondercure.com> Subject: Doctor Jailed for CURING Cancer (see why), Article No....
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They, the builders of our nation.
Found at the Facebook page of The Old Map Gallery in Denver, Colorado. An inspiring work from a daughter of a calligrapher for the United States Treasury Department. Louise E. Jefferson is a...
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Rosetta: Captivated again.
I grew up in the space age. I worried along with my parents about what it meant now that the “russkies” had launched Sputnik. I sat glued to the television as the most momentous events in history...
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Search Engine Registration – Do Not Fall For This Scam
I’ve seen an uptick in spam in my inboxes lately, much of it in the same format – there must be a new spammer active in Russia or somewhere similar. However, I’ve also gotten a rash of solicitations to...
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Give me solid cedar, or give me death.
Just a random musing: When I was around 8 or so, my beloved centenarian aunt gifted me with a cedar box full of hard raspberry candies for Christmas. The candies evaporated quickly, but the cedar box...
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There! Are! NINE! Planets!
Maybe. See, for the longest time, I’ve been fascinated by space, and the stars, and astronomy. When I was a kid in the 1950s I’d go from New York City where I lived to visit one of my uncles in the...
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