"Here's your daily box of Viagra spam, lady..."
-It's not really news, but Newt Gingrich is a complete asshole-
"We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto," Gingrich said to cheers from the crowd of more than 100. (Think Progress)
-Get your spam as actual junk mail!-
Google is trumpeting a new service called 'Gmail Paper,' where they'll print out the email in your Gmail account and mail it to you. From a testimonial from Mayumi M., Associate (and beta tester), "Now that I have Gmail Paper, I understand the difference between labels and folders. I had one message with two labels, but when I tried to stick the paper version into two filing cabinets at the same time, it just wouldn't go." And, if you're worried about the environmental impact of all that paper, Google assures us that it's 'made out of 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum.' Before you get too excited over the prospect of getting boxes and boxes of mail from Nigerian Cabinet Ministers, take a look at the date on the your calendar... (Google)
-A hero for the cause-
A Buffalo, NY woman is staging a hunger strike for a cause she believes in strongly. Identifying herself only as J on her MySpace page and a YouTube video, she claims she won't eat until her demand is met. Is it ending war in Iraq, global warming, or any of a boatload of other issues worth worrying about? No. J won't eat until Sanjaya Malakar is voted off 'American Idol.' Here's a crazy idea -- stop watching it if you don't like it!
That'll also free up more time to worry about shit that actually matters -- like ending war in Iraq, global warming, or any of a boatload of other issues worth worrying about. (ABC)
