The Top 100 Hoaxes - here's #40:

Internet Spring Cleaning
In 1997 an email message spread throughout the world announcing that the internet would be shut down for cleaning for twenty-four hours from March 31 until April 2. This cleaning was said to be necessary to clear out the "electronic flotsam and jetsam" that had accumulated in the network. Dead email and inactive ftp, www, and gopher sites would be purged. The cleaning would be done by "five very powerful Japanese-built multi-lingual Internet-crawling robots (Toshiba ML-2274) situated around the world." During this period, users were warned to disconnect all devices from the internet. The message supposedly originated from the "Interconnected Network Maintenance Staff, Main Branch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology." This joke was an updated version of an old joke that used to be told about the phone system. For many years, gullible phone customers had been warned that the phone systems would be cleaned on April Fool's Day. They were cautioned to place plastic bags over the ends of the phone to catch the dust that might be blown out of the phone lines during this period.

~~ MrWong's Soup'Partments ~~ Get Your Apartment Today!

Favorite Foods of Philadelphia

US Department of Laughs; these "universal signs" from the US Government "ready.gov" website are great...!

Weight Watchers recipe cards, circa 1974

Anyone got a spam filter for netscape.net email? I can't stand the strain!!!!!!!!!!

Google as Big Brother

The first Cooking show on Television to explore the relationship between Food & Sex on Citytv and SexTV

March Hare, March Hair,,Heresy!

And Hydrox!

Well of course it is.....

See ? This means March!

And here

fci.org

It's time to lower ALL flags in this country to half mast -- a great man has passed on....

Mr. Rogers has left the neighborhood....


:-(



A moment of silence please.....


More here

OK - you uGeeks - and U know who U are .....

This site just up!!!


searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com

Go there ----

You know you want to ....

This is weird...

Just heard about this - I think it's cool. It really doesn't matter what you think.

http://www.thematrixphone.com/

Check it out.

Bliem Bliem!

Now now, let's not quibble about who picked what template first. Of course, I did

I just think that there is symmetry in the Cosmos, Aluminum foil notwithstanding.


Fantastic grey matter coalesces in the same beaker!!!!!!"

Blog Pollution? Is there such a thing? I may have to sic the ABPA (Anti Blog Polluters Association) after you!!!!



Of course I do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are you ABSOLUTELY SUREthat you want me polluting your Blog as well as my own?

Two recommendations: Blogrolling and the little thing you can add that let's you instantly
put a page into your blog with a right-mouse-click ("Blog This!")

This was done with "Blog This!"

The LISNews Librarian Pickup Lines

Framps! Framps! Come HOME, Framps!!!!!