Wednesday, October 02, 2002

Library of Congress Taps the Grid. The world's largest library is evaluating ways to harness grid computing's massive potential to digitally preserve its priceless collections. By Kendra Mayfield. [Wired News] 7:22:44 PM     The Secret Life of Bees: Questions for the Author "Quote: 'Dear Students, It is an exceptionally nice honor to have you reading my novel in your Modern American Literature class! I'm extremely impressed with your weblog, which I've been following. What fun for the author to listen in on your discussions and see the wonderful and provocative artistic interpretations that you've created. The experience has opened my eyes to new ideas about my own work!' Comment: ...and the author responds. Is that cool or what?" [Serious Instructional Technology] [The Shifted Librarian] 7:19:20 PM     I've removed some links from the navigation bar in order to re-organize how I store topics. (Moving to the Radio outliner and a program called LiveTopics, if all goes well, rather than the Radio categories feature.) In the meantime, everything is jumbled up together below. (GM) 6:07:27 AM     The Scam Joke Page. My brother told me over the weekend about the hilarious Scam Joke Page: "My friend and I have received quite a few 'business proposals' from the 419 scam artists. We have decided to write them back and lead them on a bit. Of course, we don't use our real names. Instead, we like to go by the name 'David Lee Roth'." The folks behind the Scam Joke Page have made it their mission to disrupt the scammers who are behind the now notorious spam messages attempting to sucker people out of their money under the auspice of helping a former dignitary get their money out of Nigeria. The site contains archives of email conversations, voicemail messages and "legal" documents between the scammers and "Mr. Roth". Often the anit-scammers will lead these scumbags on for days or weeks, even going so far as to arrange fake meetings in Africa, and then make riotous excuses for why they didn't show up. Recommended reading, and the voicemails are particularly amusing. (Warning: It's addictive stuff.) [Jake's Radio 'Blog] 5:28:47 AM

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