You know the one thing I hate: Chain letters. Really, anything that tends to get forward, but I remember years ago when my cousin and some of my friends would send me those chain letters. Now, if I were a spammer and those things got to me, I would be the happiest person ever. Whenever things get forward, majority of people nicely stick those 10-15 names in the To: field, and forwards, always retain every email header of the previous lines of sent mail. Let me see if I can do a rough outline:

Alright, Person A gets a chain letter from her friend, which has been sent about 10 times before (the amount of email addresses would then build up), so something like this (I shortened it, but imagine about eight more Headers, and you’ll understand the idea of all those email addresses for the taking, and BTW, these are NOT real addresses, obviously (At least I hope it’s obvious).:

—Header—
To: xxxxg@xxxx.net, xxxx1g@xxxx.com, xxxxg@xxxx.biz, xxxx45g@xxxx.net, xxxx2g@xxxx.net, xxxx12g@xxxx.com, xxxx2g@xxxx.biz, xxxx3g@xxxx.net, xxxx4g@xxxx.net, xxxx3g@xxxx.com
From: xxxx@xxxx.net
Subject: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: Read this, it’s important!
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Dude, check this out

Later dummy,
xxxx
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Yo, I have a signature
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Original Message–
To: xxxx@xxxx.net, xxxx1@xxxx.com, xxxx@xxxx.biz, xxxx45@xxxx.net, xxxx2@xxxx.net, xxxx12@xxxx.com, xxxx2@xxxx.biz, xxxx3@xxxx.net, xxxx4@xxxx.net, xxxx3@xxxx.com
From: xxxHAHA@xxxx.com
Subject: Read this, it’s important!

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Read this whole story, and then sent to 10 people in 24 hrs or you’ll die, BLAH BLAH BLAH!

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH
You’re a stupid person BTW if you get this far, I would’ve deleted just with the FWD: in the subject (actually, I have an email filter that send FWDS to trash, I don’t care if it’s legit, I find it just a horrible and lazy way to send mail.)

Now send to 10 people!!!

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Get the best email package known to man. Have a cool blahblah.whatever address, blah blah.

See, it can get pretty ridiculous, and also a note, the message is generally REALLY long, I’m just trying to keep things short. So, if you get these, just DELETE them. Because, it really makes sense that most of these were probably started by spammers knowing that eventually it’ll get back to them (and in terms of original chain letters of the paper mail system, just a person who played on peoples mind and convinced them to waste a stamp).

Here’s a good link on more on the subject, and how to continue a chain without feeding a spammer, if you’re just so superstitious and HAVE to hit the forward. Protect E-Mail Addresses from Spammers.

And if you’re lazy, and don’t want to click the link, I will do society a favor and at least mention one good way to do this, add addresses to the BCC: field, and just stick a dummy address in the regular To: field. If you got a forward, you can hit forward, but delete all the headers, well, everything, except the dumb message.

And I now leave you with more articles related to spam:
WKYT: Don’t forward my email address (dated Oct 2008)
Net Manners: 5 Rules for Forwarding Email (dated Oct 2008)
Slashdot: Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go (dated 2004)

I ran into this video and figured I’ll share it.  Remember when Matt Damon said something about this whole Palin thing is like a bad Disney movie.  Well, CollegeHumor.com has a mock-up movie trailer.  Enjoy!

Yeah, the election coming up, the whole Financial situation, blah blah blah.  Let’s put all that aside and just laugh.

Let’s start with some interpretations of some warning signs.  (These are from a user on ClipMarks, URL: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/BB3541B7-1614-44C6-B31E-9EAF8047B6F6/ )

Mutated giant

Use light to lift rubble

<– Take this image on your left for example, which is my favorite, “Use your flashlight to lift the walls right off of you!”

And this image to your right, “After exposure to radiation it is important to consider that you may have mutated to gigantic dimensions: watch your head.”

You can view more from the link mentioned just above.

One of my favorite segments on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is the Headlines, usually done on Monday nights.  Just the fact that things get published with our a second glance or some kind of editing is just hilarious.  Here’s a few Headlines that actually went to print:

“Storm power outage kills local trees, ice cream, and fish”  |  “Highway 4 bypass overpass bypassed”  |  How about “Golden Ripe Bananass” for 39 cents a lb  |  and don’t forget about the “cereal killer”

Read more from NBC.COM

And let’s not forget the site for all those bored out of their minds: Bored.com.  There you can go to sites that really serve no purpose other than give you something to look at or do for a few minutes or so.  But the best part, Dumb Stuff.

Speaking of dumb things people say or do, I found a great little page entitled “Why Americans Should Never Be Allowed to Travel”.  One example from that site: “A client called in inquiring about a package to Hawaii.  After going over all the cost info, she asked, “Would it be cheaper to fly to California and then take the train to Hawaii?”"

And another batch of Dumb, Dumb things, Courtoom talk, that’ll have you rolling on the floor.  And, I’ll give you a little taste from that web page: Lawyer: “You don’t know what it was, and you didn’t know what it looked like, but can you describe it?”

In conclusion…People are just, well, dumb.

Thank you and good night!

It’s been a while since I think I last brough this one site up.  I ran into maybe a year (or two years, tops) ago, but haven’t been to it in a while, thought about it, and decided maybe I’ll mention it.

In a nutshell, this is what Net Neutrality is: the idea of free and open Internet, meaning no blocks, or anything that’ll hinder a person from going to a site of their choice. Big companies want to make it so certain sites come in slower, and the ones (like their sites and sites of their partners) to load faster.

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