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On a Wellesley, MA field trip, parents were tricked into having their kids pray at a mosque: Video embedded on xcopfly.com

In 1990, a game was released for the Sega Genesis called “Action 52″, a series of 52 arcade games which were priced as “52 games at a discount” rather than the price of a single cartridge. The game consisted of simple arcade-style jump-and-shoot games with goofy graphics. Not a bad idea, but definitely not worth [...]

There was that recent story in the news about the Verizon debt collector threatening to blow up someone’s house. (NOTE: I don’t know about this industry, am not a lawyer, or whether this works in all cases. Use this suggestion at your own risk.) A month ago, I was receiving calls from debt collectors who [...]

I’m an eBay addict, and if you are too, you know it’s very easy to buy used and cheap CDs. You can even get rare and out-of-print CDs, some obscure ones go for over $100! However, often times people take advantage of the rarity of some CDs to sell unsuspecting (or, sometimes, desperate) people bootlegs. [...]

You might have heard of computer supplier Newegg accidentally shipping computer builders boxed “processors”. This is no ordinary counterfeit import issue – I found a nice article describing the shipments – the CPU was a piece of lead, with a sticker of a fan attached to a “heatsink” piece of molded plastic. And, of course, [...]

These quizzes have been around for ages, but I haven’t been to BBSpot since way before xcopfly.com came into existence. So I took a bunch of these quizzes again.     Which OS are You?     Which File Extension are You?     How White and Nerdy Are You?     Which Caffeinated Beverage [...]

(NOTE: My comments are based on From and Subject headers. I have not these opened these scam e-mails and neither should you, ever.) In my "Spam" folder, there are always fake Notice of Underreported Income forms, originally from a fake "IRS", but now from the British HM Revenue & Customs. Yet it still uses the [...]