Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life? {SPLOTT}

HoaxBusters

Ever wonder if that last warning spam was something to worry about?Look here:
- Computer viruses
At the Energy Department CIAC site or at anti-virus software maker Symantec or at anti-virus software maker McAfee
- Real viruses and other health related hoaxes
At the Centers for Disease Control Site
- Just plain stories
Urban Legend Reference Page
http://www.snopes.com/snopes.asp)

Quotes (more quotes updated 2007-12-12)

Being American is simple, but people like Bush and Rove and Cheney made it complicated. Americans get shit done, and Americans don't argue when their neighbor's house is on fire. We roll up our sleeves and we can do great things. For better or worse now we need to do some great things. We're lucky that now we have the leadership we need to get started.
- Dave Winer 2008-02-27 Scripting News (link)

....dedicated to smacking the quacks, debunking the bunk, and shedding the light of critical thought and reason into the dark and scary world that is our every day lives."
- Swoopy Skepticality Podcast 2/12/2006

"... so you have the bizarre spectacle of for example, the recording industry, who for the last 50 some years have been giving us sex, drugs, rock and roll and gangster rap and so on, tell us that these terrible computers and the industrialist who created them are corrupting the youth, by teaching them to steal. The people who gave us gangsta' rap are suddenly concerned about the moral character of the people who
listen to it"
- Cory Doctorow, 2007-11-24, roboexotica 2007

"Your computer should listen to you, and not some coked up Hollywood fat cat thousands of miles away in Hollywood who decided what you can and can't do with a movie"
- Cory Doctorow

"The EFF exists, so that your decendents will have the right to know, regardless of where they are on this planet and that if one of them want to say something, he will be able to or she will be able to, and if somebody else wants to hear what that person said, they will be able to, its as simple as that.
- John Perry Barlow