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From my spam mail (where else?):

Academic Qualifications available from prestigious NON-ACCREDITED universities.

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Two headlines from my feeds just now:

Ten Arrested During Multi-Agency Tobacco Smuggling Operation

Mountain Pine Beetle: Canada’s New Government Delivers

Hmm. I suppose it’s good that they caught the tobacco-smuggling agencies, but do we really need mountain pine beetles delivered?

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– and hold a spot on page one. Microsoft product leads to crash:

Skype: Outage caused by Microsoft update
MATT MOORE
Associated Press
August 20, 2007

FRANKFURT — A two-day outage that left millions of Skype users unable to use the popular Internet phone service was caused by an abnormally high number of restarts after people had downloaded a Windows security update, the company said Monday.

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An OPP officer in Grand Bend explains the meaning of “lost” in today’s Globe:

“I don’t think we can say where he is, and that’s very problematic in trying to track him down,” said Detective Inspector Dave Cardwell of the OPP Criminal Investigation Branch.

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Another win for the Estonian wife-carrying team (Why the Times of India is covering this news, I have no idea.) (I am half-Estonian, for those who don’t know, but I do not wish to be carried unless the carrying involves bearers and fine wine.)

The prize is very sensible:

The winners received a beer keg, which weighs as much as the carried wife.

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Below is an actual excerpt from an actual email that I (and many, many others at my firm) got from our ”help” desk people recently.  I *almost* feel sorry for them thinking of the scores of irate messages they must have received from partners with well-developed senses of entitlement…

It’s very hard to believe, but presumably the people who wrote this assumed the recipients would be gratified to be supplied with a couple of further datapoints, and were completely oblivious to the fact this would be read by human beings.

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BLACKBERRY UPGRADE ELIGIBILITY

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From a Ontario PC Youth Association giveaway at this weekend’s Ontario PC convention:

This year provides us with an excellent opportunity, a chance to get rid of a Premier who has become disconnected with the people of Ontario and that with a man of great vision and integrity because we want a better Ontario, and Leadership Matters.

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"Mobile calling" ad

Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease.

So here’s a picture of a Rogers Video calling ad which is now in the subway. There’s a picture of a smiling girl on the phone, which is being held in a man’s left hand; in the background is a slightly rumpled bed with nighttime lighting.

First there was cellphone porn, now subway-ad promotion of videophone sex? We all know that all technological advances are driven by sex, but must it be quite this overt?

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This may be helpful. (Hat tip to aldaily and Chronicle article, also worth looking at.)

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Professor Socrates’ teaching evaluations.

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