I'm sorry I didn't get the newsletter out earlier, but I've been busy shoveling (again).
If you're in/near Alexandria, Virginia, I'll be signing my book Net Crimes & Misdemeanors at BooksAMillion on King Street in Old-Town from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. on Wednesday, February 12th. Everyone who buys a book at the signing gets a nifty Buzball that lights up when it bounces (it has the book title and URL imprinted on it). Believe me, these are fun to bounce with the lights off and pets or significant others trying to catch it, LOL.
I'll be in Alexandria doing some work for the IACP (International Association of Chiefs of Police) on cybercrimes.
Jayne
I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .and Californians wonder why the rest of the world think they're from another planet.
Roadworkers tells motorists to mind the BMUP http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_746053.html?menu=news.quirkies
American roadworkers misspelled the word BUMP as BMUP on a road in California.
They painted the 4ft letters on a street in Richmond to warn motorists about a new series of sleeping policemen.
Local residents said they were astonished at the obvious error.
According to The Sun, the painters also put up a sign that read SLOW MEN WORKING.
Story filed: 09:38 Saturday 1st February 2003
In the News
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Fake CNN Website Taken Offline - 02/03/03 http://go.hotwired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57506,00.html/wn_ascii
A website that generated phony CNN news stories has been ordered to close by the network giant. The site was only up for a week, but during that time it created more than its share of trouble and controversy.
A Nation of Voyeurs - 02/02/03 http://www.globe.com/globe/magazine/2003/0202/coverstory.htm
Michael is a clean-cut 34-year-old working in a professional job at a Boston medical school. You'd never know he did time for burglary and is a former drug addict. Well, actually, you would if you Googled him.
Go to the Google.com home page and type in Michael's name (for obvious reasons, we are not including his last name here).
He takes fatal OD as Internet pals watch - 02/02/03 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/56497p-52905c.html
"I told u I was hardcore."
Those were the last coherent words Brandon Vedas, 21, typed into the computer in his Phoenix bedroom as he showed off for Internet pals watching on a Web cam by swallowing more and more prescription drugs.
DEA Arrests Sacramento Man for Selling Opium Poppies on eBay - 02/02/03 http://www.kxtv10.com/storyfull.asp?id=3552
A Sacramento man has been arrested by federal drug agents for allegedly selling opium poppy seeds and pods on eBay, the popular online auction site.
Verizon Appeals Surfer Ruling - 01/30/03 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030131/music_nm/music_pirate_dc_1
Launching the latest salvo in a legal battle with broad implications for copyright enforcement on the Net, Verizon Communications has filed both a stay order and an appeal of a ruling that would force the Internet provider to divulge information about a customer to the record biz.
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