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Saturday, November 22, 2003

Reuters calls it "spam rage": this article details how a guy kept getting penis enlargement spam from a British Columbia company, and so he kept threatening to do physical harm to its employees. He now potentially faces five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Of course, the guy from the BC company says that they had nothing to do with the spam, which is a great set up for the following classic line:
He said his firm does not send spam but blamed a rival firm which he said routes much of their unsolicited bulk e-mail through Russia and eastern Europe. Mackay said such firms gave a bad name to the penis enhancement business.

Thursday, November 20, 2003

Er, um... Michael Jackson. (What more can you say?)
Aftenposten Nettutgaven, Local: Three Oslo teenagers have been on a secret private visit to pop idol Michael Jackson at his pleasure park Neverland Ranch in California... The trip to Neverland should have lasted a week, but the boys have now been gone nearly four weeks. "I have faith in the judgment of both Omer and my son. Besides, I don't believe all the claims and rumors about Michael Jackson, even if I have them in the back of my mind. I am more worried about the conduct of American police than I am about the claims against Michael Jackson," the mother of one of the boys told VG.