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[Humorous] Speaking of elderberries the other day, here's the reference from whence that quote came. Also, sales of Monty Python material have 'exploded' due to the distribution of the authorized high-quality clips on youtube by the python organization, which started midway through 2008. Free is not always a bad thing.



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Labels: elderberries, grail, monty, python, spam

Have you noticed an explosion of nonsensical shock spam? The topics, posing as news, are so ridiculous that they grab your eyeballs and cause brain-clutter. Case in point below. Let's create a new word: shockspam.




What to do about it? Schwarzenegger admits to starting California fires, Bush and Putin restart cold war. Really. Spam filter seems ineffective.

Labels: brain, clutter, schwarzenegger, shock, spam

Wash it down with some Hawaiian punch (fruit juicy)

Oh please, no more of these...green eggs and spam

ham, eggs, sausage, and spam,

spam, spam, spam, spam....(drumroll)

Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 07:21:22 +0800 (HKT)
From: "FROM: MR.KAI CHIN."
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Subject: FROM: MR.KAI CHIN.


FROM: MR.KAI CHIN.
(Senior Vice President, Head of Corporate Banking Division).
Fubon Bank Limited Hong Kong. 38 Des Voeux Road Central,
Hong Kong.
Email: -kai_chin101@yahoo.com.hk

Good Day,

It is understandable that you might be a little bit apprehensive because
you do not know me but I have a lucrative business proposal of mutual
interest to share with you.

Let me start by introducing myself. I am Mr.Kai.Chin. Senior Vice
President, Head of Corporate Banking Division {Fubon Bank Ltd Hong Kong.}.
I have an obscured Business suggestion for you.

In October, 2002, my late client Ghazi Musa Hassan, Iraqi Crude oil
merchant made a numbered fixed deposit of Fifteen Million, Five Hundred
Thousand United State Dollars (US$15,500,000.00) only in my branch. Upon
maturity several notice was sent to him, even during the war (U.S and
Iraqi war), Five years ago (2003). Again after the war another
notification was sent and still no response came from him. We later found
out that Ghazi Musa Hassan, and his family had been killed during the war
in a bomb blast that hit his home at Mukaradeeb where his personal oil
well was:
http://www.iraqmemorialwall.org/iraqicasualties.html

After further investigation it was also discovered that Ghazi Musa Hassan
did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper
work of his bank deposit and he also confided in me the last time he was
in my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So,
Fifteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars is still lying
in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me
most is that according to the laws of my country at the expiration six {6}
years the funds will revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government
if nobody applies to claim the funds. Against this backdrop, my suggestion
to you is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin
to Ghazi Musa Hassan so that you will be able to receive his funds.

MODALITIES:

I want you to know that I have had everything planned out so that we shall
come out successful. I have an attorney that will prepare the necessary
document that will back you up as the next of kin to Ghazi Musa Hassan,
all that is required from you is to provide me with your Full Names and
Address so that the attorney can commence his job. After you have been
made the next of kin, the attorney will also fill in for claims on your
behalf and secure the necessary approval and letter of probate in your
favour for the movement of the funds to an account that will be provided.
We are going to adopt a legalized method and the attorney will prepare all
the necessary documents in your favour.

There is a reward for this project and it is a task well worth
undertaking. There is no risk involved at all in this matter, I have
evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is for you refusing to
work with me and alerting my bank. I am the only one who knows of this
situation, good fortune has blessed you with a name that has planted you
into the centre of relevance in my life. Please endeavour to observe
utmost discretion in all matters concerning this issue. Once the funds
have been transferred to your nominated bank account we shall share in the
ratio of 60% for me, 40% for you but this can be subjected to further
negotiations. I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to
what the consequences, but I know within me that nothing ventured is
nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter
of gold. Please observe this instruction religiously.

Should you be interested please send me your,

1, Full Names,
2, Private Phone Number,
3, Current Residential Address,

And I will prefer you reach me on my private email address below: and
finally after that I shall furnish you with more information's about this
operation. Your earliest response to this letter through my private email
address: (kai_chin101@yahoo.com.hk) will be appreciated.

Kind Regards,

MR. Kai Chin.

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A Russian scientist, Alexander Zaitsev, advocates not only listening for intelligent life through efforts such as Arecibo or the Allen array of radio telescopes, but actively sending messages to nearby stars.

Only 163 years ago the telegraph was introduced and the first message was "What hath God wrought?" Now, we've moved on to IM and Facebook.

It could be that sending interesting messages (SPAM) out there is just the trick to get a response. "Hello, we're Earth. We're great. We're #1. We're great because we're sending this. And by the way this is really old technology."

Then again, an ant might consider that its pheromone-based communications intended to reach other ant colonies would comprise the best option to reveal all that is unknown in the ant's conception. "I'm a worker ant from the nest under the leaf pile. If you can understand my message well then you're a friend. If you cannot, you're not an Argentinian ant and woe to you."

In fact, the ant's message is invisible and incomprehensible to other insects in a backyard, to say nothing of amphibians, birds, squirrels, cats, dogs, plants and people, or undersea life, for example. It's difficult for one kind of consciousness to know or conjecture anything meaningful about another, and therein lies the problem.

Complexity = Privileged Position?

"We're No. 1." In Astronomy, people settled early on a geocentric view of the universe which encompassed the land from horizon to horizon. With the awakening, heliocentrism came into vogue. Now, we know the sun is just a star among 100 billion stars in our galaxy. However, the rest of science and virtually all human endeavor is based on a variant of the original geocentrism in the way that a baby focuses only on objects in its immediate vicinity.

  

Looking at DNA, simple white rice has far more genes than humans - almost 40,000, while humans have under 25,000.

Therefore, on an ordinal scale, rice is more intelligent or advanced due to its more complex architecture, right? If our fundamental assumption derived intrinsic merit from genetic complexity, rice would be loftier in the pyramid of living things than people.

There's Bugs in Your Code

Before Champollion, Europeans could not read hieroglyphs. It appeared to be a jumble of unknown objects along with images derived from nature-junk, if you will, or even more accurately: absurd. In fact, this 'primitive' language and the activities necessary to decode it obscures that it was entirely forgotten. In human genetic code, a similar terra incognita appears, that we call 'junk' DNA.

However, the pufferfish, well known to divers and snorkelers, lacks 'junk DNA' altogether and has a clean genetic blueprint. Human code, on the other hand, is filled with ellipses, parenthetical marks, lacunae, and the diacritical red marks of life's editor. In fact, the majority of human genes fall into this category.

Why?

That's what geneticists are trying to find out.

Labels: allen-array, arecibo, copernicus, dna, et, galaxy, junk, junkdna, pufferfish, rice, spam, zaitsev

World's first spam email...sent to every ARPANET address on the West Coast. (1978)

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