TalkTalk launches PutPocketing – the art of putting money INTO people’s pockets without them realising, using real ex-pickpockets.
Put Pocketing
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Will Users Donate a Penny Per Email to Fight Spam, Yahoo Wonders
Yahoo’s researchers want you to voluntarily slap a one-cent stamp on your outgoing e-mails, with proceeds going to charity, in a bid to cut down on spam. Can doing good really do away with spam, which consumes 33 terawatt hours of electricity every year, not to mention way too much of our time?
The idea behind CentMail is that paying to send e-mail — even a single cent — differentiates a real e-mail from spam blasts, and thus, spam filters can be adjusted to let the stamped mail sail right through, according to a report from New Scientist. Users would get to choose which charity benefits from their penny missives, which the researchers hope will convince people to pay CentMail for something that’s currently free.
You know, I would probably agree to a penny per email, but I would be scared of rates going up and then being old and complaining to the youth that back in the day email was free.
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Interesting Wedding Photo
A couple get their wedding portraits done at a special field warfare scenario photography set on July 29, 2009 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. The husband and wife to be are both military enthusiasts. Specially-themed wedding portraits are popular among Chinese young couples.
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Kind of a Crappy Story
Goldfish survives being flushed down lavatory and is rescued from sewage plant
A goldfish which survived being flushed down the lavatory is enjoying a new lease of life today after being rescued from a sewage plant near East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire.
Worker Jake Huey noticed the fish flailing on a mesh filtering screen he was cleaning at the Scottish Water site.
He picked it up and rushed to the treatment building, where he put it in water in an emergency tank.
The fish, nicknamed Pooh, is now being looked after at the Philipshill Waste Water Treatment Works until a new home can be found for it.
Mr Huey said: ”Obviously someone thought their pet was on its last legs and flushed it down the toilet, which obviously we wouldn’t advise.
Everytime I think of goldfish, I think of the show Diff’rent Strokes because Arnold had a black goldfish name Abraham.
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