Now here is one dumb cluck:

“Who gave you permission to invade my website and block me and anyone else from accessing it???,” Taylor wrote to CentOS. “Please remove your software immediately before I report it to government officials!! I am the City Manager of Tuttle, Oklahoma.”

Few people would initiate a tech support query like this, but these are dangerous times, and Taylor suspected the worst. (Er, but only the world’s most boring hacker would break into a site and then throw up a boilerplate about how to fix the hack.)

[Update a few minutes later]

And here’s an amusing follow up:

Taylor declined to respond to this reporter’s request for comment but did write to a member of El Reg’s marketing team.

I do not follow instructions that show up when a website that I am not familiar with appears on my computer and I do not think anyone with experience would do so either. Once the Centos site appeared on four computers at one site I contacted our web service provider. The web service provider did not know what could cause the problem and had never heard of “CentOS”. I then contacted the internet provider’s local office and was told that they did nothing to cause the problem. I checked the building’s server and found nothing relating to CentOS on the server. I was then left with only the web page email address to contact. I asked for the strange website to be removed because it blocked my City web site and I could not post public information. I only got help after threatening to contact the FBI.

Now I am being flooded with emails from CentOS users that after knowing the answer say the problem was simple. I think this is unjustified and would like for this to stop. Your website should provide useful information and be a credit to the IT world. I do not believe it should be used to incite the users. Your attention to this matter is greatly appreciated.

Welcome to the internet, moron.

From Russia.

My favorite:

If your girl seems to be tired of observing the ceiling pattern then ask her lie on the belly.

I would have never thought of that.

…and an old one. With Iowahawk. I ran across it in the midst of other web searches.

I have to admit that I learned more from this than I ever knew about him, though none of it is suprising.

Remember the shrink who claimed that Ronald Reagan had diminished mental capacity as early as 1980? Well, even at his worst, the former president never fell for a Nigerian email scam:

Guy Gottschalk is asking a judge to remove his father as administrator of the $8-million family partnership that was set up for tax purposes after the death of his mother in 1993. A hearing is set for March 14.

The suit alleges that Louis Gottschalk destroyed bank records to cover up the amount of his losses.

“While it seems unlikely, even ludicrous, that a highly educated doctor like [Gottschalk] would fall prey to such an obvious con, that is exactly what happened,” wrote Guy Gottschalk’s attorney in court papers.

…of James Lileks:

And now, the usual relief: a mild and agreeable afternoon followed by choir practice, during which I

…and save yourself the money for the movie ticket. It’s Lego Brokeback Mountain.

Here’s a pretty funny (and relatively unhomophobic) thread at Free Republic on the movie. I particularly enjoyed the picture of Roy Rogers, and the comment:

Gives a whole new meaning to Buck Rogers then, doesn’t it?

See, I knew I could relate this subject to space.

I also normally think that blonde jokes are pretty silly, but I have to admit that this is pretty funny.

Save yourself the trip over to DU or Kos. Argue with your own automated holiday moonbat.

Save yourself the trip over to DU or Kos. Argue with your own automated holiday moonbat.