Why you throw fraud?

Phishers rarely get their English right. Someone needs to hook them up with native English-speaking hoods so they can have a synergy thingy.

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Courtesy nrrd, here’s the Great Sausage Fanout of 2004. (NYTimes, use bugmenot if you don’t want to register.)

I’ve mentioned bzzagent before here, a couple years back I think. It’s pathetic to be a secret agent for marketers to start with, and even more pathetic when all you get is “points toward cool products”. If I’m going to sell out all my personal relationships and go into permanent shill mode, I want some serious cash please. That’s what the financial services business is about!

Imagine going around pushing sausage on your friends (lol pushing sausage lol), promoting it to grocery store clerks, reporting on everyone to the mothership, and being an ENTHUSED SAUSAGE ROBOT all so you can earn 30% of your way to an iPod.

We are all insurance salesmen now, and we’re underpaid.

Follow up on Orange Unified's psychoceramic mystery candidate

From Joe Bell, a friend and local columnist:

In case you missed it, the mystery winner of a seat on the Orange Unified School District board surfaced last week. In his first public appearance since he filed candidate papers many months ago, Steve Rocco in person underscored the election lesson he hopefully taught all of us: Don’t vote in the dark. Or its corollary: When in doubt, leave it blank.

Rocco told a Los Angeles Times reporter that he couldn’t think of any educational issues he plans to address in his new role. But he added that serving as a trustee would give him public visibility to counter what he described as a conspiracy against him by a cabal of public officials who have stalked and harassed him and his parents for 25 years to force him to stop — according to Rocco — his efforts to uncover corruption and scandal in local government. There was more, much more of this sort of thing, all of it about as relevant to the cause of public education as Rocco’s conspiracy.

The good citizens of Rocco’s school district who voted him into office deserve what they got — but the students are the ones who will suffer. I don’t know who is more culpable, the people who voted for Rocco because the teachers’ union supported his opponent or those who bought into his flawed self-identity as a “teacher” or those who just flipped a coin. Rocco finally got it right when he told The Times reporter: “The only thing I did was run. I didn’t create this.”

Joseph Bell, Daily Pilot

Press the button, Max

Our elevators at work are made by Thyssen-Krupp. Krupp was formerly mostly known for making HUGE FREAKING GUNS that looked like this:



I think about this every time I ride the elevator.

Gwen Stefani Jumps the Shark

Courtesy ohnotheydidnt we have her amazing performance from the Billboard Music Awards. It’s hard to take, but hang in there until she hits the Fiddler on the Roof stuff because that’s where it really goes off da hook.

Original thread is here.