As the leaders of Pajamas Media abandon their ad network and focus on their new streaming-media venture, it’s important to remember that they tried to tell their members that it wouldn’t last:

"...the next phase in the democratization of ideas has begun"

Sure enough, it was just a phase.

Virtually every use of “teed off by” on the web is in reference to someone becoming annoyed by golfers. Given that, perhaps you should reconsider this bit of release-euphemizing:

"Lenovo's IdeaPad Y-series consumer notebooks are all going 16:9 widescreen, teed off by the 16-inch Y650, ..."

I suppose I’d get a bit teed-off if my sibling had 16 inches, too…

It began with this, discovered through an email that led from failblog to Engrishfunny:

This was not some ancient one-hit wonder, cruelly abused by Youtube. No, Dschinghis Khan had quite a success after Eurovision, and they’re still big in Japan. How big?

This big:

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Using a forced refresh inside a NOSCRIPT tag combined with Javascript that disables text selection and right-click is not a copy-protection system. It’s 30 seconds of mild annoyance, at best.

You see, browsers have this remarkable function called “save as”…

This is a recommendation I can accept:

[Update: …and the real Network Solutions sent out notices warning about the scam today, which suggests it was pretty well-distributed]

[Update: already another one today, to a completely different address, also not associated with any domain registrations. This one came from a German IP address that’s pretending to be Yahoo, with disguised links leading to a different Russia-based domain owned by the same “Shestakov Yuriy”, through yet another Chinese registrar. Long ago, I set up a special filter rule for anything coming from a .biz domain; I think it’s time to apply the same rule to any mention of the TLD, in email or browser windows]

This is one of the more transparent scam emails I’ve seen recently.

1. It's going to a randomly-scraped address that has no connection to any domain registration.
2. It doesn't mention any domains that the recipient owns.
3. It claims that this unnamed domain's registration has lapsed, and as the former owner, the recipient is entitled to a percentage of the sale price to someone else.
4. It insists that the only way to claim the money is by clicking on the link (and, of course, filling in a great deal of personal information).
5. The link is labeled "renew your domain", and falsely claims to point to Network Solutions, with ".sys62.biz" (Russian "commerce" domain set up through a Chinese registrar) hidden in the HTML.
6. There's nothing in the link to identify an individual recipient; you won't even be greeted by name if you're dumb enough to click it.
7. According to the headers, it allegedly originated on a machine in Australia that happens to have an IP address in Turkey.

I figure 5% of what they send out will slip past spam filters, 5% of the people who see it will click the link, and 1% of those will be stupid enough to enter the information necessary to have their identities stolen. If they sent out 100,000, that’s two identity thefts. And they probably sent out a lot more than 100,000.

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Last week I signed preliminary paperwork to refinance my house, saving about $300 per month. Tonight, my mailbox contained letters from seven lenders offering to beat the deal offered by CitiMortgage. Also the usual weekly credit-card offer from Capitol One, and two “helpful reminders” from my current credit-card companies about their extremely low balance-transfer rates.

It seems when banks can’t figure out if other banks are worth lending money to, they fall back to something more reliable: gainfully-employed consumers who pay their bills on time.

Last night I dreamed I was looking something up in Wikipedia.

The page had been vandalized, and was now about various sex toys and how they’re used.