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I've actually gotten this email more than once. It would be funny except the tone is so serious that I don't think it's a joke. I almost didn't post it because I don't want to make fun of him if he really believes this stuff, but he is sending these out to random people, so here goes:
From: webmaster@***.comWow. I'm thinking about sticking that last line onto the end of all my emails. Good luck Frank Young.
Date: Thu Jan 10, 2002 03:37:49 PM US/Eastern
To: *******
Subject: Time travelers PLEASE HELP!!!!!!
Anbei ist das Ergebnis des Antwortformulars. Es wurde versandt von
Frank Young (webmaster@***.com) am Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2002 um 21:37:49
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message: If you are a time traveler or alien disguised as human and or have the technology to travel physically through time I need your help!
My life has been severely tampered with and cursed!!
I have suffered tremendously and am now dying!
I need to be able to:
Travel back in time.
Rewind my life including my age back to 4.
Be able to remember what I know now so that I can prevent my life from being tampered with again after I go back.
I am in very great danger and need this immediately!
I am aware that there are many types of time travel, and that humans do not do well through certain types.
I need as close to temporal reversion as possible, as safely as possible. To be able to rewind the hands of time in such a way that the universe of now will cease to exist.
I know that there are some very powerful people out there with alien or government equipment capable of doing just that.
If you can help me I will pay for your teleport or trip down here, Along with hotel stay, food and all expenses. I will pay top dollar for the equipment. Proof must be provided.
Also if you are one of the very few beings with the ability to edit the universe PLEASE REPLY!!!
Only if you have this technology and can help me please send me a (SEPARATE) email to:
Robby0809@***.com
Please do not reply if your an evil alien!
Thanks
I pointed to something similar a long time ago, but this one is even better. Night time picture of the earth from the space station. [via FMH]
Did I mention this before? It's been the number one most helpful OS X tip for me. Launch BBEdit from the terminal with:
sudo open -a "BBEdit Lite 6.1 for OS X"
(Yeah I'm cheap and haven't bought the full version even with the big sale.)
This launches BBEdit with root permissions allowing me to open and save files into directories I otherwise wouldn't have permission for (like the main webserving directory.)
Looks like Matthew Rossi worked through that depression, or writers block, or whatever. The ideas are certainly flowing now. Don't click unless you've got some time. And the correct neurological processes enabled.
How many times has man risen out of barbarism and tried to forge a civilization? The gap between the rise of the modern human and the rise of the first known culture, that of ancient Sumer, is tens of thousands of years at the most conservative guess. Was it merely a case of inertia to overcome before the slow march forward could become the torrential changes we have grown accustomed to, or is there truth to the various stories that say before the nations familiar to us, there were others known not today?
Doubleclick gets out of the targeted advertising business. You know, I really feel bad for these guys.
Oh, no, wait...
Cam has an interesting thought on the possibilities for anti-spam services. But what about a service that gives you an email address - very cheap but not free. Then anybody with an email account on that system also gets a central email address where they can redirect any spam they do get. These spams are then used to create a master profile. Every incoming email for every different account passes through the filter created by aggregating all the spams received by everyone on the system. Any incoming mail that matches anything in the central deposit is thrown out. You'd still get spam, but if the system grew large I would think it would be very infrequent. With enough people it would almost always be the case that someone else would have gotten that spam first. My guess is this might be very good to perfect at not producing false positives, while still being pretty good at stopping spam. And the real problem with spam filters is that you don't want false positives (you don't want even one in a hundred real messages deleted before you see it.)
Whoa.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Minolta Co Ltd said on Wednesday it had halted new product development for APS (advanced photo system) cameras and would focus its resources on the fast-growing market for digital cameras.I guess that whole worse than 35mm film quality thing wasn't such a good idea after all. I assmue they're not halting production on those more traditional film cameras as well.
Got my new memory. I'll be curious to see what kind of performance difference there is in OSX with 512megs instead of 128megs. I'll report back. (And I'll repeat my plea: memory is cheap, cheap, cheap. Buy more. If you don't have at least 256megs of RAM you should definitely buy more. 256megs for an iMac costs around $60 and will make your computer much faster.)
No new PowerMac towers? They've got to come soon because that top of the line iMac makes the present towers look a little underpowered and expensive.
But I think the iMac is a homerun. $1299? Sure that's expensive for the entry level model - but that thing is powerful. Really powerful. Hopefully I can convince my friends Virginia and Steven to buy one.
The biggest surprise for me was the new top of the line 14 inch iBook. I definitely didn't see that one coming. $1799. Makes it kind of hard to justify the TiBook. This is just like the iMac/PowerMac problem. The consumer machines are so rocking that they will take a bite out of the professional lines. So I think it won't be very long (way before MWNY in July) that those machines get bumped up too.
I was really expecting a "one more thing..." release for the towers. I thought they'd be 1.2 Ghz, 1.4Ghz, dual 1.4Ghz G4s. The fact that this didn't happen makes me think that the G5 is coming, but wasn't quite ready. Look for a special event by the end of the month, or maybe a MacWorld Tokyo release. I had made H. wait to buy her new tower, and she's a little disappointed, but what could I do? It might have happened today. Soon hopefully.
So while it wasn't "way beyond" the rumor sites - frankly it wasn't anywhere near what some people were expecting - I think the iMac is right on. Priced well. Beautiful. And sure to be a big seller.