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First Bill Gates promises to end spam within two years and now this?
Nigeria’s finance minister has pledged to crack down on the country’s notorious e-mail fraud schemes.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said her government was planning “decisive” action against the scams, which dupe thousands of foreign businessmen every year.
I may not get any more email. Not. [...]
From the seldom reverent and often funnyAllah (the pundit):
In other regional news, David Kay says Syria has some of Saddam’s WMD. Syria denies it, employing a spectacular bit of jihadi logic in the process: “These allegations have been raised many times in the past by Israeli officials, which proves that they are false.” QED. As [...]
Maybe Fightin’ Ted Leonsis should ask Wrasslin’ Al Franken if he’d like to become a partner in the Caps.
I’ve had occasion to meet Leonsis, and exchange email with him (I’m certainly not alone there.) He doesn’t appear, either in person or via email, to be the type of man who’d lose it [...]
To no one’s surprise Hutchison formally launched their UMTS network in Hong Kong earlier today. But to the surprise of many STET Hellas in Greece also lauched UMTS services today. And in the UK Vodafone, which has repeatedly declined to name a firm launch date for 3G, said it has begun a field trial of [...]
British Telecom has made a cash offer of £15.9M for UK Mobitex operator Transcomm; the price represents a premium of about 15% over Transcomm’s share price. Transcomm said its Board has agreed, and slightly less than half the outstanding shares had been tendered as of late last week. BT said Transcomm’s network and experience will [...]
I can’t believe it’s taken this long for someone to ask where Saddam’s known stockpile of weapons has disappeared to:
What Kay’s report did not show is what happened to the large stockpiles of other WMDs that Saddam was known to have possessed before the first Gulf War, and which seem to have disappeared either in [...]
We got about 6″ of snow here last night. Which means I have to go shovel it. Yippee.
Oh yeah. And the Caps lost, too. Happy Monday.
ABC News’ John Stossel has published a list worth reading: “Lies, Myths and Downright Stupidity: Stossel’s List of Popularly Reported Misconceptions“. Among the 10 myths debunked: you’ll catch a cold by being cold, money can buy happiness, Republicans shrink the federal government, and guns are inherently bad.
One of my favorites he tackles is #5 on [...]
…that the Macintosh first shipped. From the original Apple press release:
Users tell Macintosh what to do simply by moving a “mouse”–a small pointing device–to select among functions listed in menus and represented by pictorial symbols on the screen. Users are no longer forced to memorize the numerous and confusing keyboard commands of conventional computers. The [...]
Jim Kelley, writing for ESPN:
“…the Washington Capitals, a team he never really wanted to play for in a city he never wanted to play in. Just stepping foot onto Madison Square Garden ice is likely to adjust the attitude of one of the greatest offensive players the game has ever known…..Jagr comes with baggage, [...]