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Jail tobacco bucks go up in smoke
Cigarette fund launched by Kerik vanishes
· Battlers thank big donors a million [The Age]

Internet More Smoke and Spam: For Better or for Worse

Thesmokinggun.com, a Web site that often makes headlines by disclosing court records, has done it again — this time posting a 1993 deposition by a 13-year-old boy who said that singer Michael Jackson molested him. The revelation comes a decade after Jackson reportedly made a $20 million payoff to the boy and just days after the singer acknowledged that he shares his bedroom with kids.
· Fire [USA Today]

I know what your in-box looks like, and it isn't pretty. It looks like mine: a babble of come-ons and lies from hucksters and con artists. To find your real e-mail, you must wade through the torrent of fraud and obscenity known politely as ''unsolicited bulk e-mail'' and colloquially as spam. In a perverse tribute to the power of the online revolution, we are all suddenly getting the same mail.
· Web Spasms [NY Times]