Societies worse off ‘when they have God on their side’:
“In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies.
“If your mother says she loves you, get a second source.”
“If your mother says she loves you, get a second opinion.”
One place attributes the latter to Dan Rather; another to the movie Primal Fear. Clearly the saying predates both of them.
Other variants:
“If your Mother says she loves you, get two independent sources of confirmation.”
“If your Mother says she loves you-get it verified.”
“Even if your mother says she loves you, get two references.”
So: who said this first? where? when? and what did they say?
United States National Debt and the presidents responsible for it.
The Movie: In Search of the Valley:
In Search of the Valley is the story of three friend’s personal journey into the psyche of Silicon Valley, in which they swapped London for California for one month last September. During the trip they clocked up over 3,000 miles visiting and talking to many of Silicon Valley’s heavy-weights, as well as those of a more personal interest.
“I’ve just returned from entertaining the folks at a family weekend at a gay Jewish camp. It was mostly lesbians.
“Imagine having 2 Jewish mothers.”
£24/month, 24 Mb down, 1.3 Mb up. Sweet!
For the past two years, I’ve been playing hockey at Ice Oasis. It’s a nice enough rink, but their web site is terrible. While they’ve since ditched the neon colours, the schedule page is pretty awful:
My ice oasis schedule fixes all of those problems, and gives you even more. Features include:
The site caches data from their site and converts it, much like Google makes PDFs and Word files available in HTML. It’s pretty gentle, not hitting the real site more than once a day.
At danah’s suggestion, I took the bait and sent a reply to the YASNS spammers. I picked “Carrie,” and sent her a note full of spelling mistakes and a run-on sentence:
i got your email on myspacester isn’t it nice you are in san jose too now. its pretty nice but no san frnsacisco.
do sned me some more pictures of you.
“Carrie” replied, pushing an adult personals site:
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:01:24 -0400
From: "Carrie"
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To: XXXXX@yahoo.com
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Subject: Hey you - Here are my pics!!
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Content-Length: 604Hey, thanks for getting in touch with me again! I am definitely ready
to hook this up with you. According to Myspace, we live really close so
we could meet up whenever you want. Come check out my newest personal
at http://www.centralpassion.com/carrie00 My profile is listed inside
the site under "BackSideBabe". I decided to post my personal info (i.e.
phone # and my personal email address) on this site for 3 simple
reasons. 1) It's DISCREET 2)I never have to worry about being contacted by
children since only adults are allowed in the site and 3)I know all the
replies I receive are genuine. Well that’s about it for now, I really do
hope to meet up with you...and let's make it soon!Talk later,
Carrie***The following is a requirement of this website: "If you are offended
by adult material or are not of legal age to view such material, or if
you simply would not like to hear from any members from this website,
follow this link to be removed:"
http://www.centralpassion.com/subscription.php
The host 69.42.68.182 doesn’t reverse, but if you check the two domains mentioned in the email, you see that meethemnow.com is 69.42.81.182 and centralpassion.com is 69.42.81.180.
The IP block is owned by Webair Internet Development Inc. at
Their AUP states:
Spamming (sending unsolicited bulk and/or commercial messages over the Internet). This includes, but is not limited to, bulk mailing of commercial advertising, informational announcements, charity requests, petitions for signatures, and political or religious tracts. Such messages may only be sent to those who have explicitly requested them from your domain. Using spam to promote a Web site hosted on the Webair Network ("spamvertising") is also prohibited, even if the spam is not sent through the Webair Network
I’ll be dropping them a note shortly.
“Screw the nano. What the hell does the nano do? Who listens to 1,000 songs?”
—Ed Zander, CEO, Motorola
