13 November 2003  
 
 

13 November 2003

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  Spammers Can Run but They Can't Hide*   (The New York Times)
  • As a cause, stopping spam may not be as urgent as, say, curing AIDS. Yet thousands of activists have mobilized to fight it.


  •   The Great Plughole Debate   (The Guardian)
  • Does water really swirl in the opposite direction south of the equator?


  •   Cell Phone Messaging Takes a Mischievous Turn   (Associated Press)
  • Cell phone users are being "bluejacked" — surreptitiously surprised with a text message sent using a short-range wireless technology called Bluetooth.


  •   Too Good to Be True   (The Guardian)
  • Fifty years after Piltdown man was exposed as an outrageous fraud, Tim Radford selects his all-time favourite science scams


  •   E-Mail from the Great Beyond   (Wired)
  • Some people can't live without e-mail — and, apparently, some people can't die without it. Fortunately for those in the latter group, there's mylastemail.com, a new service that promises to deliver your final, heartfelt e-mail messages to your friends and relatives once you have passed on to that big cubicle in the sky.


  •   Email Chain-Letter Threatens Children   (The New Zealand Herald)
  • Another email chain-letter containing a picture of a dead child and threatening death if the receiver does not pass it on is circulating among schoolchildren.


  •   TV Station Fined for Showing Men Kissing   (Associated Press)
  • A private Greek television station has been fined $116,000 for broadcasting a scene of two men kissing.


  •   Does a Burger Slay Hunger or Reflect a Violent Past?   (The New York Times)
  • Some people on East Tremont Avenue, "The Home of the Murder Burger," say that in the early 1980's, a fatal shooting occurred outside the deli and that the burger was created in memory of the dead.


  •   Mystic Dog Statue Is Falling Apart   (Associated Press)
  • A cast-iron statue of a dog that has a history steeped in urban lore is deteriorating so fast it may not last through another winter.


  •   Georgia Man Buys Two Winning Lotto Tickets   (Associated Press)
  • A Georgia man's trip to a grocery store yielded not one, but two winning tickets for a $70 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot.
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