] Global Removal provides a program to mass-emailers that
] will read a text delimited database of email addresses,
] remove all of our customer's email addresses from that
] list and produce a new file containing a cleaned list for
] them to use. We are able to accomplish this without
] them ever receiving an unencrypted list of our customer's
] email addresses. Our CleanList program is
] ported to both Windows and Linux so that it will run on
] either system.

Protection Money?

Global Removal - Paying spammers not to spam you.

Oh, how I wish I were in the Bay Area just so I could go see this... sure, it may be depressing for some, but I think that some of our San Francisco memers should post a review for us!

To the kitschy annals of dot-com nostalgia, add the endearing farce of Rentalpuppy.com, a saga that starts and ends at Starbucks, with $50 million vanishing in between. Consultants, V.C.s, investment bankers and the dot-commers themselves are chewed up and sung out in a giddy production, the kind of show where "Norton anti-virus" is earnestly invoked in a lovers' duet.

Based in a SOMA loft with all the necessary office distractions, like foosball, air hockey, cellphones ringing to the tune of "Baby Got Back," Rental Puppy, as a company, seems to be mostly about office workers IM-ing their friends all morning before going out for a high-tech burrito, while they wait to vest. "I'm vesting. I'm vesting. Just four more years, then I'll be resting."

The real villain here isn't the hapless dot-commers themselves, whose main crime is just getting caught up in it all -- and, hey, who wasn't? -- but rather a nefarious investment banker from Stevenson Roberts, whose sterling credentials include sitting on the board of Enron and WorldCom, and the V.C.s so sexist that they have to have everything a woman says repeated to them by a man so that they can hear it.

It's never too early for dot-com nostalgia

] On Friday August 23rd 2002 Zac "Mr Magnet" Monro, 2001
] AGWC Champ and meek mild mannered architect from London,
] won the 7th Annual Air Guitar World Championship held in
] Oulu, Finland.

RAWK!

Air Guitar World Championships

"What the hell did I do to get stuck with these toothless crackers?"

Anchorage Daily News | Story photograph

] Many gas stations in the Phoenix area were back in
] operation Monday morning after overnight fuel deliveries,
] though panic buying continued to create long lines at the
] pumps.

Overnight deliveries ease gas shortage, but lines persist

Men have eagerly embodied their reputation as the sexually enthusiastic half of the population, and yet this study seems to suggest that women, deep down, are really thirsting for more. But, according to one of the study's coauthors, Northwestern psychology department chairman J. Michael Bailey, the study really just reinforces what we already know: Men are sexually simple, and women are not. "I think it really shows us how much we don't know about women more than it shows us what we do know," he says.

Interesting article about sexuality and the different means of arousal for the various gender roles.

What do women want?

] Armed with inexpensive, mass-produced gems, two startups
] are launching an assault on the De Beers cartel.
]
] Next up: the computing industry.
]
] By Joshua Davis
]
] Aron Weingarten brings the yellow diamond up to the
] stainless steel jeweler's loupe he holds against his eye.
] We are in Antwerp, Belgium, in Weingarten's marbled and
] gilded living room on the edge of the city's gem
] district, the center of the diamond universe. Nearly 80
] percent of the world's rough and polished diamonds move
] through the hands of Belgian gem traders like Weingarten,
] a dealer who wears the thick beard and black suit of the
] Hasidim.
]
] "This is very rare stone," he says, almost to himself, in
] thickly accented English. "Yellow diamonds of this color
] are very hard to find. It is probably worth 10, maybe 15
] thousand dollars."
]
] "I have two more exactly like it in my pocket," I tell
] him.
]
] He puts the diamond down and looks at me seriously for
] the first time. I place the other two stones on the
] table. They are all the same color and size. To find
] three nearly identical yellow diamonds is like flipping a
] coin 10,000 times and never seeing tails.
]
] "These are cubic zirconium?" Weingarten says without much
] hope.
]
] "No, they're real," I tell him. "But they were made by a machine
] in Florida for less than a hundred dollars."

Wired 11.09: The New Diamond Age

I found this highly amusing for all of three minutes. You too can find it just as amusing.

Marshmallow Balrogs

] Kittenhate.com is not a porn or pay site. We don't want
] your credit card number to access any part of this
] website. (Though clicking on our banners would be nice of
] you.) This website is built around the idea that people
] might like to anonymously talk about who, what, when and
] where they are having sex with. Maybe even 'how'

Kittenhate.com - Masturbation, sex, voyeurism and dark fantasy for the Net generation

] MANCHESTER, New Hampshire -- A security flaw at a website
] operated by the purveyors of penis-enlargement pills has
] provided the world with a depressing answer to the
] question: Who in their right mind would buy something
] from a spammer?

Wired News: Swollen Orders Show Spam's Allure