Vote Today!

If you live in the USA, please get out and vote today. Many states will allow you to take off work to do this (Minnesota even allows you to do so with pay).

I know that voting doesn't make a very big difference in the way our country is run. But some time ago, I realized that voting is easy and it doesn't hurt, either. This year's close elections (including Minnesota) are all going to come down to get out the vote, possibly decided by a few thousand votes. Make yours count.

— November 5, 2002

Where Spam Goes to Die

Wired News: FTC: Where Spam Goes Off to Die.

Since 1998, the FTC has been archiving every email sent to their spam reporting email address, uce@fcc.gov.

However the volume of the spam received is now so high that the FCC is considering getting rid of the database.

Unfortunately, the FCC says they can't share the database due to privacy constraints. But maybe they could share word count statistics from their corpus...

— November 5, 2002