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This is what I get from drawing conclusions based on review blurbs in the ads. I liked the first one so much, I did have high hopes for this. I love a good thriller or heist film. Sadly, so few of them are good. Relatively few are this bad, though. Just dreadful. I beg you, I beseech you, please see something, anything, else!

Sad news: the historic Clam Broth House in Hoboken is being demolished. I wonder who is getting that classic sign.

Remember telemarketing calls? Most of us haven’t been bothered by them since the government introduced the very popular Federal Do Not Call List earlier this year.

Well, here we go again. As of January 1, 2005, marketers will be able to call your cell phone, which they hadn’t been able to before. So get a head start and delist your cell phone number, too.

UPDATE:
D’oh! This is something of a hoax. There will be a new cell phone directory of sorts, but it’s supposed to be off limits to telemarketers, so it’s probably not worth worrying about.

I just saw my second pop-up while using the Firefox browser, which is supposed to be impervious to pop-ups:

I see that I’m not the first to observe this. Please, you smart people out there in open-source land, fix this!

It’s possible that the ones I’ve seen might have been served by SiteMeter, the free web traffic analysis tool. That seems a bit strange, in that SiteMeter is quite popular with bloggers, as is Firefox, so I would think if that’s the case, SiteMeter is pissing a bit in their own pool, and also I would have seen more bloggers complaining about it. But as best I can recall, the other time I saw a pop-up while using Firefox a few days ago, I was also checking out my traffic stats on SiteMeter. Of course, the other possibility is that it was one of the sites that I found via SiteMeter that was linking to my blog that served the pop-up. I’ll keep an eye on the sitation and update if I figure anything else out.

Via Miki:

The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of sexually transmitted disease.

This disease is contracted through dangerous and high risk behavior. The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim (pronounced “gonna re-elect him”). Many victims have contracted it after having been screwed for the past 4 years, in spite of having taken measures to protect themselves from this especially troublesome disease. Cognitive sequellae of individuals infected with Gonorrhea Lectim include, but are not limited to:

Anti-social personality disorder traits; delusions of grandeur with a distinct messianic flavor; chronic mangling of the English language; extreme cognitive dissonance; inability to incorporate new information; pronounced xenophobia; inability to accept responsibility for actions; exceptional cowardice masked by acts of misplaced bravado; uncontrolled facial smirking; ignorance of geography and history; tendencies toward creating evangelical theocracies; and a strong propensity for categorical, all-or nothing behavior.

The disease is sweeping Washington. Naturalists and epidemiologists are amazed and baffled that this malignant disease originated only a few years ago in a Texas Bush.