I read a FAQ earlier about intellectual property (by the pro-IP lads), in which a question was exactly similar to this:

“Q: Is it legal to say the word ‘foo’ while chopping another human being to little pieces with an axe?”

“A: No, it absolutely isn’t!”

I mean… I can say that anything and everything is illegal if I word it right and quote the wording just so.

This guy is trying a new venue. He’s simply asking me for cash, because I live in the western world. After all, everyone in the western world has money to hand off to random people emailing them. Gotta give it to him though. He’s at least being honest.

From: “Mou Xinsheng.” <”Mou _1″@yahoo.com>

To: me

Hello,
I want to solicit your attention to recieve money on my behalf.The purpose of my contacting you is because you live in western world.When you reply this message,i will send you the full details and more information about myself and the funds.

My personal email is :mou_xinsheng176@yahoo.com
Thank you.

Mou Xinsheng.

I was reading the Wikipedia article about China and spotted this in the middle of a paragraph:

“A peasant named Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the Mongols in 1368 and founded the Ming Dynasty, which lasted until 1644. ”
Dude’s a hero for sure.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/19/us_space_policy/

Space = the 51st state? Lovely. Want some fries with that megalomania, Mr. President?

無理心中 [むりしんじゅう] /(n,vs) forced double suicide/

Okay. Huh? Forced? Suicide? That’s new. Isn’t that what we normally refer to as MURDER?

(Source is “treehugger.com”, so it’s definitely propaganda, but looks reasonably accurate.)

I wrote this this morning. I am simply posting it now plus adding the picture.
If not for my lap top I’d be in complete darkness now. It is 5 am and there’s no electricity in my house.

Enrogue’s down. I give a fleeting thought to the people out there who might want the “portraits site” or the various other ones out there (Sixdays.. right. He might want to write a blog entry. Or Nicole…).

I have no lights. It is night, and night is by nature black. We humans simply chose to override, ignore and revert, but nature sometimes makes itself remembered. I stumble into the kitchen and drink from a bottle of water and look outside, at the stark blackness of the world.

It is unusual for me to yearn for times lost. Maybe it is the history classes I’ve been taking lately; maybe it’s that I’m getting of age to think such things, but I did. The magnificence of darkness… I wanted to experience those times when night was night, black was black, day was not.

I am tired of pollution and global warming, terrorism and population crises. It’s no wonder people out there get sucked into fantasy worlds. I’d rather wield a sword and stab a dragon in the eye too. The darkness outside reminded me of this all. The mistakes we’ve made to get this far, and I wondered if we remember them all still.

I took a picture (it took awhile to find my digital camera). The picture is of my cell phone lying on my table against the window. The picture isn’t of any spectacular quality or anything. The light from that cell phone was my only source of light. Under normal circumstances it is not a light at all, but here it became a damn star. This is what my apartment looked like, with the windows open: