Illiterate Americans

According to a new study, one American adult in 20 is illiterate.

Interestingly, they all have MySpace pages.

Wired picks the best Firefox hacks

Hopefully, by now, you’ve all seen the light and are using Firefox, the faster, more secure, more fully-featured, all-around better Internet browser.

And if you are (and I certainly hope that you are), you probably know that one of the great joys of Firefox is that you can, relatively painlessly, make it into the browser you want it to be, via easily added plug-ins. (For instance, mine will look up any word in the dictionary if I highlight it and right-click. Handy for maintaining the illusion that I’m a superlative spellur.)

Wired magazine has gone another step in promoting Firefox, and have compiled The Firefox Hacks You Must Have.

Definitely worth a look.

• Yet more Firefox plug-ins.

Kofi Annan is a fan!

Wow, I got a letter from Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations!

I Dr. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, would like to ask for your partnership in reprofilling funds over $250m in excess, the funds would be coming via a string of selected banks in Europe and Asia.

The Funds in question were generated by me during the Oil For Food Programme in Iraq. I have been getting scandals/ controversy in this regards, you can read more on the links below-

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/anna-a05.shtml
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2003/main042803.htm

You would be paid 10% as your management fee. Please do not write back directly to me via my official email address. All further correspondence should be sent to my private mail box (kofiannan4un@o2.pl ). As soon as you indicate your interest I will give further details.

Remember to treat this mail and transaction as strictly confidential. I will await your urgent correspondence via my private mail box-

Dr.Kofi Annan.
SECRETARY- GENERAL
kofiannan@un.org
www.un.org

Strangely, he uses three different e-mail addresses (the original one was sent from kofiannan4un@walla.com). That must be how important he is!

I feel very honored by this. I sure hope the spambots who visit this URL don’t harvest those, because that would be a shame.

Free the gnomes!

Give them liberty, or give them a shady spot where dogs won’t piddle on them.

• Stop Oppressive Gardening!
• Gnome Liberation Front

(And if they have to stay oppressed, would it kill someone to put a Virginia Tech outfit on them?)

How fast can you type the alphabet?

Find out here. I’m going to try a few more (dozen) times before I post my time. For a guy who can type more than 100 words per minute when I’m in the zone, these scores are exasperating.