Most of the junk I see advertised by email, I can believe someone actually wants to buy (assuming it works as advertised). But here’s a head-scratcher: something that purports to make me “cu.rn like a p0rn star”. Why would I want “up to five times” more semen??

After all the more conventional masculinity-enhancement nostrums, one is tempted to say this is the icing on the cake.

Oy. 334 bogus ‘Microsoft security patch’ messages today from ‘particular’, all dated October 27-30. And how have you been?

Kieran Healy sees comic potential in the possibility of a Nigerian Pope. (Link from the incomparable Joshua Burton, who anomalously has no webpage to call his own.)

Weirder every day. Just got a spam offering, as near as I can parse it, a picture of a dog for $19.

I just received an appeal from Princess Joy of Swaziland; the headers include

From: I am a scammer <banohosegono@ecplaza.net>

Got a spam just now entitled “Improve Your Credit Rating by Paying off Your Bills.” What, really? Why didn’t someone think of that sooner!

I dreamt that I was walking in some commercial street and an aggressive (and curiously-colored) panther appeared. I drew my snub revolver . . . . Never mind that I neither own nor am ever likely to acquire such a weapon!

Sigh. Some toad is using my return address on spam entitled “Your details”. I’ve had two bounces today, but happily no flames yet.