Florida is apparently a haven for ambulance chasers, because there are always a lot of ads on television by lawyers trolling for victims (though now that I think about it, this may have been a national one, because it was on Fox News, which I get via satellite). I just heard one for some kind of medication that said, “If you or your loved one died after taking this stuff, call us right now.”
OK, so if I died, what am I, supposed to channel John Edwards?
That’s the subject of a spam email I got this morning. It’s from “kenon nader” Here are the entire contents: “Greetings, how are you doing? Give we shall meet”
No link to a web site, just a return email address of someone at “allforchildren.org.” And right after typing this, I got another one, same subject and contents, from “duff shiahn-w <assessoriaadm@lo.unisal.br>”
What is the point of this stupidity?
[Update in the late afternoon]
Apparently it’s a buffer overflow attack trojan. I don’t think it works very well with Thunderbird, given that I have Javascript disabled (which is why I didn’t see the script). And my blog is now numero uno on Google for “give we shall meet.”
[Update a couple minutes later]
Here’s more info.
…they almost write themselves. The headline itself is wonderful:
Giant inflatable turd escapes moorings and brings down electricity line
Read the last line, too.
You know you’re an Internet troll when you get complaints from the moderator at /dev/null.
…when your dad robs the pizza parlor where you work?
How do you cut off your own head with a chainsaw? You’ve got to think that he bypassed some safety features…
We can capture a powerful greenhouse gas and store energy at the same time. Just imagine pastures full of this.
It has squirrel undies beat hands down. Errr…so to speak.
It’s a wondrous age in which we live in (to paraphrase Paul McCartney), that has underpants for squirrels.
Behold: subatomic particle plush toys. Hey, it’s less than six months until Christmas.
First off, let me say that I was not previously aware of a web site called Weird Asia News. But given how many people live in Asia (and how generally weird the place is, at least to non-Asians), it’s an obvious and probably abundant source for such stuff.
Anyway, here’s a fun one–a Peeping Tom who fell ten stories while trying to video a woman in a shower with a cell phone. And survived.
And naturally, there’s an amusing Free Republic thread devoted to the incident.