There's a rash of new accounts being created with the sole purpose of adding random people and making posts containing shady "free music downloads" and "free movie downloads" URLs, including a "parisrocksagain.com" site, which showed up on Google as possibly harmfulJust a warning if you find yourself being added by some random schmuck. According to ( Read more... )

I love getting letters from a "Warranty Division" located somewhere in Illinois, telling me excitedly that my car's warranty "has expired or is about to expire" and I should call them so I can get an "affordable extended warranty" immediately! With bold words and all-caps urgency! I especially love that they don't even try to identify themselves as ( Read more... )

Oneupmanship. Where does it end? First some nutterfuck in Idaho changes his name to Pro-Life, now a yahoo in Illinois wants to change his name to In God We TrustSTOP THAT. If you make it that easy to laugh at you, it's not as satisfying for the rest of us ( Read more... )

When I called AT&T last month, I could've sworn I said "Please disconnect the phone line here at this address," and not "You know what would be great? Disconnect the phone line here at this address for a week or so, then reconnect it so I keep getting calls from utterly wrong numbers, sometimes even from people who speak the wrong language! Do you ( Read more... )