What happens to your email account when you are dead

I found the following a bit interesting while reading this Time article:

E-mail doesn’t always disappear with you either. Yahoo! Mail’s rule is to keep accounts private: “The commitment Yahoo! makes to every person who signs up for an account is to treat their online activities as confidential, even after their death,” says spokesman Jason Khoury. Court orders sometimes overrule that. In 2005, relatives of a Marine killed in Iraq sued to gain access to his e-mail account. A judge sided with the family, but instead of turning over the account’s password, Yahoo! copied the e-mails onto a CD. Hotmail now allows family to order a CD as long as they can supply proof of death and proof of relationship. Gmail requires the same proof, as well as the copy of an entire e-mail sent from the deceased to the petitioner.

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There’s Another DART

The Dallas regional transit authority system is called DART – Dallas Area Rapid Transport.

Turns out Des Moines also has a DART:

DART suspends driver after she refuses to use bus bearing atheist ad

Controversy over a bus advertisement promoting a local atheist group has found its way to the driver’s seat.

On Monday, the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority suspended bus operator Angela Shiel after she refused to drive a bus with an Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers ad on its side. Shiel, 41, said the ad’s message, “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone,” went against her Christian faith.

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Mormon Church investigates baptism of Obama’s mother

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is investigating the posthumous “baptism” of President Barack Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, as a “serious breach” of religious code, a spokeswoman said.

Church records published by a liberal blog, Americablog, show that Dunham, who died in 1995, was baptised last June 4 in Provo, Utah, and received endowment, another sacrament, a week later.

“The offering of baptism to our deceased ancestors is a sacred practice to us and it is counter to Church policy for a Church member to submit names for baptism for persons to whom they are not related,” said spokeswoman Kim Farah in an emailed statement. “The Church is looking into the circumstances of how this happened and does not yet have all the facts. However, this is a serious matter and we are treating it as such.”

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PETA’s New Billboard

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Speaking of billboards, there’s one I pass every morning on my way to work inviting those interested in Scientology to an event.   But what I find funny is that the very next billboard is one for a male stripclub.

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