This page best viewed as significantly faster than baseball. (Go Yankees!)

Ever use a misspelling in a search engine and have it find something? I had "Philippines" wrong, and I got dozens of hits.

It was like entering a parallel Web, only a bit less up on its facts.

I gotta agree with the others that "KILL BONO" is a pretty extreme thing to have on a t-shirt. Perhaps we can reach a compromise? Like maybe "WOUND BONO"? But that's a bit ambiguous and sometimes messier than outright killing, so how about a t-shirt saying "BREAK BONO'S LEFT THUMB"? Then if somebody takes it too literally, no life-threatening harm done. Also, it can be done several times without endangering his career in the slightest. Okay, he might suffer a bit of psychic trauma if foax repeatedly run up to him, grab his left thumb and yank it into an improbable position while hollering "Madigascar!"... After ten or twelve bouts of that, his style might become a bit crimped, but that's the price of stardom, eh?

The Truth About De-Cycling

I've concocted a program I call "De-Cycling." It combats junk mail, especially those "newspapers" that get spewed to all "Postal Customer"s in an area (I call 'em pseudo-newspapers.)   If they don't get printed in the first place then they won't wind up as trash.

It goes like this:

• Announce the program and collect junk mail from local families who wish to be removed from those specific mailing lists.
• Compile this info and send the addresses to the appropriate junk mailers, requesting that the addresses be dropped from the lists. (Don't abuse this information, or you're as bad as they are!)
• Monitor compliance with your requests.
• (The FUN starts here.) If the junk mail keeps coming, phone the people who bought the advertising. With pseudo-newspapers, start with the largest ads. Tell the advertiser you're selecting the site for this year's Earth Day demonstration and as such a stalwart supporter of littering, the advertiser seems like a dandy target.
• "LITTERING?" they ask. Explain how the junk mailer is refusing to comply with requests to stop spamming your people. Ideally, this gets the advertiser to stop buying the ad space. If not, you get to see yourselves on TV, picketing a car dealership on Earth Day. (Ah, to be young, gifted and loudly indignant!)
• (A variation on the above when a lot of people want to stop getting a pseudo- newspaper is to ask the post office to revoke the bulk mail permit.)

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