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Am I the only one getting a ton more spam in my Gmail account?

It’s been going on for the past couple weeks. The spam filter used to miss something once every couple weeks (if that often). Now I get about 10 or more spams each day.

When a friend of mine from Argentina came to the U.S. to work for a few months, he told me how he bought a Social Security card in Miami for $25. Luckily, his name isn’t Jose Tinoco, nor did he get any loans using his “borrowed” number…

Camber Lybbert thought it was a mistake when [...]

Yikes.

An Ohio legislative panel yesterday rubber-stamped an unprecedented process that would allow sex offenders to be publicly identified and tracked even if they’ve never been charged with a crime.

I’m all for locking up and tracking sex offenders. I fail to understand why we don’t lock up child molesters for life or why we let rapists [...]

I guess I kind of expected this eventually, but it is still really sad.

THE Crocodile Man, Steve Irwin, is dead.

He was killed in a freak accident in Cairns, police sources said.

It appeared that he was killed by a sting-ray barb that went through his chest, Queensland Police Inspector Russell Rhodes said.

He was swimming off the [...]

Via Global Voices and snowsquare.com, I’m reminded of the Beslan School tragedy/massacre/attack that occured September 1-3, 2004.

Honestly, I had forgotten about it and didn’t remember we were approaching its anniversary.

By the Saturday the full horror of what had taken place at the school became clear.

Emergency workers, sifting through the debris of the burnt out gymnasium, [...]

Facebook is adding election related features.

Facebook have just launched afeature called “Election 2006″, which allows you to search for officecandidates for the Senate, House, and Governorship. The site now has1,600 profile pages for candidates running for House and Senate seats,as well as state governorships in the election this November.

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The new section appears under the “election” [...]

watch the short video: beauty pageant headbutt ‘a la zidane’.

i swear i only continue to post these zidane videos because i think briant enjoys them.

previously:
video: views vary on zidane headbutt
zidane vs. fidel castro
zidane explains…sort of
marco materazzi: dirty soccer player
zidane headbutt video

Thankfully, Bozo’s 15 minutes 3 years of fame are coming to an end.

Nevertheless, it now appears that the person most responsible for the end of Ms. Plame’s CIA career is Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson chose to go public with an explosive charge, claiming — falsely, as it turned out — that he had debunked reports [...]