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I recently saw this tasty tidbit at the bottom of someone’s whitelist email reponse. Pretty funny.

If you are a spammer, you will need to go back to the drawing board and find a new way to spell v.i.a.g.r.a or m0rtgage or a new way to hide the wording for phony college degrees or to bilk people out of their money on get rich schemes.  Perhaps a new line of work would be in order.  Maybe you could take some of your own advice, and work from home earning millions of dollars every day, or better yet, just cancel your debts completely and never repay them.  Sit back with a secured platinum credit card, while you live on Cialis and love, losing weight and listening to opportunity knocking. In any case we are glad your message has been blocked - the world is a better place without your crap.  If you are not a spammer, we sincerely apologize for having delayed passage of your message, and if you (politely?) let us know, we will take action immediately.  Thank you for your patience.

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — When authorities warned Paul Schwarztrauber Jr. not to drink and drive, it may not have been entirely clear to him that the prohibition also applied to lawnmowers. The 46-year-old was pulled over this week and charged with riding his lawnmower on a public street while intoxicated and with a revoked license.

Computerworld online news editor Ken Mingis spends some time with the top-end iBook and the entry-level PowerBook and comes away with some surprising conclusions on which is the better buy.

It’s a nagging question for which there is seemingly no correct answer, akin to the “paper or plastic” query at the grocery store: PowerBook or iBook? Aluminum or polycarbonate? Twelve-inch or 14-inch?

Ever since Apple Computer Inc. released the iBook G3, Macintosh users have debated the relative merits of the company’s entry-level laptop and its pro line of sleek PowerBook G4s. Until last fall, when Apple finally plopped a G4 chip into the iBook, the answer seemed pretty clear. If you wanted speed and had the bucks, get the PowerBook.

That advice is no longer as clear-cut as it once was.

From the Wired email list:

Three things I can’t get through a hot summer night without: cold beer, baseball, and sleep. Nothing ruins that last one like having to constantly flip your pillow to keep it from getting warm. With the Chillow, cool heads prevail. Just pour in 80 ounces of water, wait two hours for the patented SoothSoft foam to activate, slip it inside your pillow case, and it will stay at room temp all night long; this could mean a 30-degree difference between your head and its cushion. Need to get even cooler? Stick it in the fridge for 15 minutes. Some may need to get used to the Chillow’s unyielding consistency, but once you do there’s no going back. — Erik Malinowski
[RATING: 10/10] [ soothsoft.com ] [RETAIL: $30]

Macworld UK has learned of a dangerous malware that deletes the Home
folder on a Mac. The file is cunningly disguised as a Word 2004 for Mac
demo – from the forthcoming Office 2004 for Mac suite.

A Macworld reader alerted the magazine to the malware after he
downloaded the file from Limewire. The reader told Macworld: “I
downloaded the file in the hope that perhaps Microsoft had released
some sort of public beta. The file unzipped, and to my delight the
Microsoft icon looked genuine and trustworthy.”

However, he added: “I clicked on the installer file, and to my horror
in 10 seconds the attachment had wiped my entire Home folder!”

(Thanks Macworld UK)

The PowerPage is down today as we complete our migration to our new xServe. Expect service to be intermittent for the balance of the week. Sorry for the interruption, we’ll be back soon.

Playfair is the iTunes music player that removed the restrictions from the music you bought from Apple. It was hounded off Sourceforge by Apple’s lawyers, and then it relocated to a server in India, only to be removed again at Apple’s behest. Now it’s back a third time, still hosted in India, with a new name: “hymn” (Hear Your Music aNywhere).

playfair has been renamed to hymn (hear your music anywhere) and is back online with the legal backing of FSF India. It has been updated with the latest FairPlay code from VideoLAN.

Link

(Thanks, Jon!)