Canada Post Raising Rates on Monday

Canada Post has raised it's rates, effective Monday.  The 100% price increase of thick envelopes is drawing criticism from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, which says it opposes "arbitrary...

Worm uses familiar brands to lure people

Worm uses familiar brands to lure people Posted by Robert Vamosi Ho-ho-ho. This isn't an offer for a real coupon book from McDonald's. It's a new mass-mailing e-mail...

Tory mailing targeting 'junkies' strikes a sour note in east Vancouver

OPINION Politics as usual.  The right wants "Law and Order" and the left wants us to stop calling IV drug addicts "junkies".  While I agree that it is not accurate to call all IV drug addicts "junkies"...

Jingle mail, Jingle mail Sc#*w the bank all the way

" Mortgage foreclosures hit an all-time high in the fourth quarter of last year while homeowners' equity, or the value of a home less the outstanding mortgage, sank to an all-time low of 47.9 percent. As prices drop, more home owners who bought at the top of the market...

Mooninites Meet Congress: Whose Fault is a "Hoax"?

So, if I understand this correctly, the new bill would mean that private citizens can be held responsible for government mistakes. It is well worth remembering that the Mooninite scare was not a hoax at all, but a...

Two Top Wikipedians Resign

Chalk it up to growing pains within Web 2.0: when companies invent new ways of doing business they inevitably reach a point where they are making it up as they go along. In this case, two top board members are leaving Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia's  business entity)...

Disney Pushes Robinson Movie Via 44 Million Valpak Mailing, Sweeps

"Walt Disney Pictures is promoting its latest animated film Meet the Robinsons with a 44-million piece mailing from Valpak and a sweepstakes offering the chance to win a trip to the Disneyland Resort.  Valpak envelopes will be branded with Meet the Robinsons, due out in...

Greater Manchester CND What's On Guide. 1 Dec 2006

"Upcoming Events To find out about upcoming peace and anti-war events either phone or email the GMDCND office. If you would like to be added to an email mailing list to be notified of upcoming events please email us with "subscribe activist mailing list" in the subject...

Woman Sentenced for Condom Explosives

A former strip club waitress was sentenced Wednesday to five years of supervised release after she pleaded guilty to mailing threatening letters and flammable material, including condoms

What Ails The CDC

"Staff turnover, morale problems and charges of mismanagement couldn't have come at a worse time for the guardians of U.S. public health. Julie Gerberding was still a deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2001 when someone started mailing...

Google Spreads Worm Virus to Google Video Group

"Google Spreads Worm Virus to Google Video Group Google Spreads Worm Virus to Google Video Group “On Tuesday evening, three posts were made to the Google Video Blog-group that should not have been posted…This has now been addressed and fixed. Still, some of...

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