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Saturday, July 26, 2003
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"Grace Publications" invents an editorial board for "Asian Journal of Information Technology". They then send out spam soliciting article submissions. Included in the spam list is Prof. Liz Lawley from RIT... whom they listed on their fictional editorial board.
Back to the drawing board, kids.
academic chicanery. The morning in my inbox, I found yet another invitation to submit articles to journals published by Grace Publications. This call for papers (which I’ve received on multiple occasions) includes four journals—one of which is the Asian Journal of Information Technology. Normally I’d simply discard something like this, since the invitation smacks of scam. In fact, I’ll reproduce it here—verbatim, so you can assess its quality for yourself: Call for PapersGrace Publications Network invite all scientists, submit there valuable manuscript for quick publication. We need high quality of manuscripts for publication in our peer-reviewed Journals. Our Publications are: Journal of... [mamamusings]
4:38:31 PM 
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I have ICQ, but I haven't actually sent any message with it in years. There's only one person that I IM with any more, and she now talks to me over AIM. However, I have some stuff in the "Notes" feature that I refer back to so I do fire up ICQ every now and then.
In the past few weeks, I started getting system messages that my old version (99b) was no longer going to work and that I needed to upgrade. So I dowloaded a new copy and installed it today. What they failed to mention is that 2003a no longer carries the notes feature (along with the to do list and reminders, but those are mentioned deep in gthe exceptionally crappy ICQ website). My notes have been buried alive in the old copy of the database.
Thanks for telling us, ICQ!
Of course without the notes I really have no reason to keep any version of ICQ.
1:02:12 PM
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UPDATE: Photos of the Rio Karma. Some photos of those new Rio players have surfaced. The 40GB Rio Karma (pictured at right), which looks like it might possibly rival the iPod in size (it's hard to tell from the photo), has a street date of October 17th. Not sure about the other three players, but they'll probably be the same. Read [Thanks, John]... [Gizmodo]
All they have to do now is start SELLING it. By radar@poboxes.com.
An alternative method for exercising your thumbs and forearms.
Hand-cranked Game Boy.  This hand-crank charger for the Game Boy Advance is out in Japan for about US$15 -- not sure if it's available in the US. Link Discuss
[Boing Boing Blog]
By radar@poboxes.com.
Mark your calendars. Tomorrow is "National Pray for Fox News Anchor Bill o'Reilly to Die Day". Sounds like a holiday to me. 8-)
It's my birthday, and I'll unplug if I want to. Besides being my birthday (w00t!), and Jason DeFillippo *and* Reid's birthdays (Thanks, Joi!), Tuesday August 5 is National Pray for Fox News Anchor Bill o'Reilly to Die Day, according to California gubernatorial candidate Larry Flynt. Fellow August birthday-boy and former BoingBoing guest-guest-blogger Macki from Rotten just told me he's here in Hollywood and planning to attend the service tomorrow in West LA, and promises to photoblog the crap out of it. Watch for Macki's images on Rotten.com sometime Tuesday. I won't be blogging or invoking anyone's death, though. Cory promised to FTP me a Lamborghini or IM me a new yacht, but I'm not sure I have enough bandwidth. (wipes cake crumbs off keyboard) Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]
By radar@poboxes.com.
Hey kids, let's balance the federal budget!. If we start defunding in order of importance, we'll be done real quick and none of out pet projects will be threatened.
Just so you *know* the terrorism alert business is phony -- so there's no shred of doubt left in your mind -- today's Rovian terror warning coincides with the revelation that the Air Marshall program is going to stop putting marshalls on international and cross-country flights. Umm. So far, all the terror incidents on planes were on cross-country and international flights. While Bush shovels money to his richest campaign contributors, and Halliburton rakes in so much that no one can even count it any more, the Air Marshall program has to cut back because of budget. Of course, they aren't the only ones Bush isn't giving enough money to. Practically any program that really improves safety is underfunded or unfunded. I suppose the Air Marshall thing may be some bureaucrat playing hardball -- fund us or we'll cut the important stuff first. It makes for good publicity. But if they have to do this to get adequate funding, Bush should be fired. [licentious radio]
By radar@poboxes.com.
Dear Japanese people.
Great snarky photo-caption. Curmudgeons like the infamous and accomplished Jamie Zawinski are one of the things that I love about the Internet, 'cause they pop off photo-captions like this one:
 Dear Japanese people:
Please stop exploring your sexuality. It really freaks us out.
Love, American People.
Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]
By radar@poboxes.com.
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