The overexaggerated 809 area code scam FUDding

joebeaudoin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:44:58 +0000

Late Monday night I was forwarded an e-mail from my old man, which basically was grossly over exaggerating an old scam. AT&T and Snopes.com, whose links are included in the e-mail, ironically downplay the text of the scare-mail. Please read AT&T’s and Snopes’s responses to this issue… then compare it to the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) piece that you might’ve received in your mailbox.

Read the truth here:

Blog Rush observation

joebeaudoin — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:16:56 +0000

I’ve noticed something interesting about BlogRush, a service I use to syndicate the RSS feeds of the blogs I run for my own sites, including Battlestar Wiki and Frak Media!

They don’t syndicate things with vulgarisms in the title (which isn’t a bad thing, in and of itself) or, in fact, technical terms for genitalia. Like the “penis lantern“, which happens to be the 3,000th article on the English-language edition of Battlestar Wiki. I noticed this because the two blogs I’ve posted on BW and FM weren’t syndicated, which kinda pissed me off, seeing as “penis lantern” is a benign term and should have been syndicated, regardless.

I should also note that they didn’t syndicate my blog on Best Buy fucking over their employees by forcing them to off-the-clock searches or working through mandatory lunch breaks. This is because of the word “fuck” in the title.

Of course, it’ll be hilarious if this blog post gets syndicated, despite the use of the word “penis” in the body of this blog. This would only prove that people can manipulate BlogRush as so long as their blog’s titles are innocent and uncontentious, but the content is anything but thus.

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The overexaggerated 809 area code scam FUDding

Blog Rush observation