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Ha, ha! Cruel site of the day! http://www.cruel.com/weblog/18067/major-discovery- science-reporting-sucks

Internet2? So how many of those Internets are there?

I guess Bush is smarter than his critics.

well actually, this made Cruel site of the day on December 12, 2001.

The Infamous 419 Scam

It's a billion dollar industry in Nigeria, and has paid for the careers of much of that nation's government.

It has, however, allowed for some very interesting counter-scams:

The "Buddy Weiserman Counter-Scam

The "David Lee Roth" Counter-Scam, with cache

The "Kieron Dykes" Counter-Scam

:^)

Ryan Fenton

Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?
T. Reginald Gibbons of Adequacy.Org offers 10 warning signs that your son might be involved in the subversive and criminal world of hacking. I'm not sure about some of his technical expertise, but I can't argue with his advice to throw out any books by Jon Katz and petition local bookstores to remove them from the shelves. (12-06)

This from the Cruel Site of the Day: Eric Darton, author of the World Trade Center history Divided We Stand, in an interview last year: "One great irony of the towers is that they were built to withstand a 747 slamming into them -- the disaster scenario of a more 'innocent' era. No one in the mid-'60s, when the buildings were designed, could have anticipated that thirty years later the threat would not come from a stray airplane -- a symbol of the machine age gone awry -- but from modernity's discontents: terrorists who knew the building's true vulnerability was in its basement."

Like this guy? Pardon me while I stuff cheese in my ears.

He is (probably unwillinigly) today's Cruel Site of the Day.
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If you haven't checked it out yet, make sure to spend some time in the Jeff K and Cliff Yablonski sections. :-)

Cliff Yablonski Hates You is one of the funniest things I have ever seen on the internet. Found it off of Cruel.com. Check this out. (http://www.somethingawful.com/cliff/ihateyou/ for the goatse.cs weary)

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For those who are interested. I originally found the link to pagecreators.net from cruel.com. A collection of horror stories about people dealing with pagecreators.net can be found here. Enjoy!

By the by, for your other/write-in choices, check out this site for your 'other' alternatives (Cruel site of the day). My favorite is the guy who's running so the government wills top stealing his mail.

And don't forget yesterday's Cruel Site of the Day:

Calculating the Value of Pie

Delicious.

At least two of these were featured on the most excellent Cruel site of the day. In the sparkler bomb's case, like a year ago...

Here's the link.

too bad it was a hoax.

Has anyone else seen surges this big (from 30/min to 250/min) from other sources other that /.?

Yeah, Cruel Site of the Day. My Saga of Roter Hutmann, which relates the story of a computer science nerd who falls in love with a Turing Test program, was nominated back in May. The resulting surge in hits nearly downed my ISP's server. To this day, including May in my domain's graphical statistics program introduces a spike so large that the rest of the months bottom out near 0.

Regards,

I think it was being on Cruel Site of the Day that did them in.