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Today’s “The Joy Of Tech” hit the whole rumor/speculation/hype thing perfectly on the head! I couldn’t have said it better myself!

Thanks ‘Joy of Tech‘ guys, your humor always makes my day!

Absolutely Perfect!

Sometimes you just can’t help but laugh at how totally obvious SPAM can be. I got this one today, and it totally cracked me up.

I blurred out the “Reply-To” email address, because that’s probably a real person’s email address and I really don’t want to have anyone else bothering them. The rest of the email addresses are fair game in my opinion.

Either this SPAMmer is 4 years old, not an English speaking/writing human, or just completely clueless. Either way, the inconsistent spelling of lawyer, the attached file named “safe_mail.txt”, the name of the contact vrs. the email address of the contact, punctuation, etc… It all just makes me laugh.

I just hope and prey that in this day and age, that people are not falling for these kinds of SPAM. Mind you, most decent, even average SPAM filters can handle this kind of SPAM so that the end user won’t see them. Still, please do us all a favor, don’t open attachments in email, at all.

If you are sending someone pictures, use flickr.com or any of the many other picture sharing sites. If you are sending a text file or even some binary data, there are plenty of sites that will let you store the file on their server for a short period of time so that your recipient has time to get an email with a link to the file to download from that server. yousendit.com and transferbigfiles.com are just a couple I found with a quick search on Google.

So, just sit back and enjoy some of the SPAM you get on a regular basis.

After Apollo 11 went to the Moon and returned…

Rainy weather prompts calls from “people who are absolutely certain… that the Lord has taken the sun away,” for interfering with Moon, says weatherman [via Twitter]

:giggle:

I just found a news article at iLounge which quotes an article from AppleInsider:

A new lawsuit from a Beverly Hills, Calif., man alleges that Apple conspired with the Italian mafia to secretly track him, transmit threatening messages to his iPod, and insert the word “herpes” into the song “Still Tippin’” by Mike Jones. Not just his iPod, Gregory McKenna is convinced that many things in his life were bugged, including his bedroom, living room, upstairs bathroom and Toyota Camry. McKenna alleges in his lawsuit that two iPods he owned – an iPod shuffle bought on eBay and an iPod mini purchased in an Apple Store – were affixed with receivers that allowed the Mafia to transmit threats to him. McKenna believes that these well-coordinated “threats” from Apple and the mafia were accompanied by an uncanny sense of rhythm: Recordings of mafia members saying “I’m going to kill him” supposedly played in unison with a song on the man’s iPod mini in 2008. … Filed Wednesday in a U.S. District Court in Missouri, the 124-page complaint lists Apple among a host of other defendants, including the St. Louis County Police Department, a local auto mechanic, and “unknown agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” …

People like these should be sued for wasting tax-payers hard earned money, not to mention the court, judge, and lawyer’s time. Why isn’t this man in a mental hospital somewhere? For all appearances, he needs to be!

What is really embarrassing to me is that this nutjob lives here in St. Louis!