Shanktified!

You will get nothing for forwarding emails, except upset friends.

Surprisingly, this one and others like it are still listed among the top hoaxes being forwarded around the net. There are several variants, but the idea is the same. It is very similar to the Dear YAHOO User chain letter.

This first appeared around November 2003. The hoax claims that people who forwarded it to enough people would receive more functionality. Here’s a sample:

Hotmail is offering active users the new Extra Storage block & contact feature!

Ever wanted to know if you have been blocked? With the new block & contact feature available for MSN Messenger you will now be able to have up to 500 contacts on your list, and be able to see who is blocking you! Extra Storage downloads are now offering you the download FOR FREE! Read down to learn how to get this, quickly and easily!

Extra Storage features don’t stop there!

No, Extra Storage feature doesn’t just mean new special block & contact features. You will now be able to create new accounts with a single click and run as many MSN Messengers as you want (use different accounts at once)!

Get Extra Storage

It’s easy. Everyone with an hotmail.com or msn.com account can get these upgrades FOR FREE!

Send this email to 5 people for the free Block feature!

Send this email to 10 people for both the Block feature and contact list extender (500 contacts)!

Send this email to 15 people for the Block feature, Contact extender, Account maker AND multi MSN!

If you do this you will receive a pop up message from our admin giving you the upgrade for MSN Messenger!

Important
If you receive this or a similar message, please do not forward it to your friends and colleagues. Forwarding unsolicited chain letters wastes time and bandwidth.

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Christmas came wrapped in a big red bow thanks to the unanimous ruling of a panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit of Appeals.

In a decision that only could be described as groundbreaking in this day and age, the judges ruled that the First Amendment means what it says.

The panel — rejecting the “tiresome” and “extra-constitutional” sophistry of the American Civil Liberties Union — upheld a Kentucky county’s right to display the Ten Commandments.

The court panel was compelled to state the self-evident: The First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church and state.

Continue Reading: Constitutional sanity

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This is kinda neat. Stick a pin in my map. It seems to use only zip code to place the lable, but its close enough. From a privacy and safety standpoint that might be better anyway.

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An interesting read.

“What is Kwanzaa?”

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Normally, this sort of thing gets you randomly selected for a drug test.

Workers See Jesus Image In Nacho Pan
One of the cooks says he went to empty the pan last night and saw Jesus looking back at him.

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“It is absolutely necessary to the preaching of the gospel of Christ that men be warned as to what will happen if they continue in their sins. Ho, ho, sir surgeon, you are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill! You hope to heal the sick without their knowing it. You therefore flatter them; and what happens? They laugh at you; they dance upon their own graves. At last they die! Your delicacy is cruelty; your flatteries are poisons; you are a murderer. Shall we keep men in a fool’s paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumbers from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God we will not.”

Source: Coming Judgment of the Secrets of Men – C.H. Spurgeon

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