More Corporate Evilitry

New Product May Curb Corporate WhistleBlowing and its made by the root of all internet and computer evil, Microsoft, surprise, surprise.

And yes, that is a new word up there in the subject line. Evilitry - the act of continued and unrepentant evil doing, i.e. Microsoft's long history of stomping out competitors or buying them so they can mothball better products that would eat into their market share.

I can see how a company would want to protect its digital property and documents and have no leaking of information outside company offices. But on the same token, corporate whistleblowing is how the scumbag execs at Enron, Adelphia and Worldcom got busted. Its how Martha Stewart got caught insider trading (oh sorry, allegedly used insider information to save $100K but eventually saw her empire lose $600 million). Its like telling the American people that all the phone lines into the government are no longer going to work and we'll have no voice in how our country is run (not that we get much of a voice, heck Shrub snubbed the Governor's this morning). Tighter controls over the embezzlers and crooks we call CEO and Chairman means that they can steal more millions before they get caught and that injures all of us.

Perhaps this new digital lockdown should be accompanied by automatic checks and balances to make sure that the John Rigas' of the world aren't stealing the candy store while the blinds are drawn.

Local Nutter News
SFGate: Drunk in Santa Cruz details the story of the dumbass carpenter who got drunk and then spent his evening cutting Christmas lights all over our downtown area. He's plead guilty and gets to pay $3500 in reparations. Nice work, dimwit. And Morford gets him right with his description of what this idiot was like in high school.

Spam Award Candidate
I think I'm going to start a new award called the Spammies in which the worst spam gets lauded for its utter stupidity. And here's the subject line from my first nominee (just as it is so you can get a real sense of the genius behind this marketing plan) "Proficient maniacs mastrubate when they show their victim a gun" and sent from Bijou Welch from some domain called Lactometer.com (no joke). Might have to start a whole new blog for the Spammies though because the nominees are going to be damned long. Also, the new "kewl" way to spell sex (and get past some neanderthalic mail filters) is to spell it "seks", yeah baby! You so seksy! HAHAHA!

Note, I've now created The Spammies web log dedicated to spam idiocy. It'll be added to my links soon and the site will grow and flower. I'm very open to suggestions, input and spam submissions. Heck, if someone felt like designing a Spammie award then I'd love to see it.