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.
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...