Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Two signs of the impending end of Western Civilization

First, the fortune cookie I received with my lunch had a self-serving fortune within:
"A good way to keep healthy is to eat more Chinese food."

Then, I found this in GMSV today:
Don't forget to wipe
From the No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Department, generous souls considering donating their old computer to an underprivileged country might consider first performing a .45-caliber wipe of their hard drive. Taking advantage of the fact that deleted files are not truly deleted, the BBC reports, Nigerian scamsters are pulling private banking data off PCs dropped off for recycling in Britain, saving them many hours of crafting e-mail bait for greedy suckers. Remember, in these times when everybody else seems to be playing fast and loose with your personal information, there's no need to make things easier for the crooks.

"It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine..."