NewsGator, a good online RSS aggregator, has lists and lists of feeds one can subscribe to. One of those lists is to National Weather Service Watches, Warnings and Advisories. They are listed for each state, D.C., Guam, Midway and others.
Each state that is, except New Mexico.
The National Weather Service does have a page for New Mexico.
(To be honest, they left Ohio out too, but who cares about Ohio?)
Just look at the collection. Photo from Cincinnati Enquirer, which has background.
Let’s hope that this poor soul found at The Smoking Gun hasn’t heard any rap.
A member of The Kingsmen was interviewed by the FBI in 1965.
What happened, of course, was that every rock and roll band in America played this song in their local gigs and many of the local bands did have scurrilous lyrics.
No place does spamming and scamming quite like South Florida.
Together, Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties are home to more spammers than any country on Earth. And it’s not just the annoying pitches for mortgages and sex pills. Increasingly, law enforcement officials are finding that junk e-mail is a favored weapon of predators, an easy way for criminals to target a world of potential victims from behind a wall of anonymity.
More than a quarter of about 180 hardcore spammers tracked by watchdog group Spamhaus are based in Florida, and most of those are in the tri-county area. The city with the most spammers in the world is Boca Raton. Eleven are listed by Spamhaus as based there, though anti-spam groups say they think that figure misses dozens who send spam at least part-time.
Why South Florida? Spammers and anti-spam groups cite a combination of reasons. They include the warm weather and laid-back lifestyle, lenient bankruptcy laws, proximity to Internet data centers, a history of telemarketing and e-mail marketing, and the state’s longstanding image as a good place to do dirty business.
Boca Raton, doesn’t that mean rat’s mouth?
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Maybe I’m just easily amazed by information technology, but NewMexiKen is fascinated to find that when I write a check (albeit very few anymore) I can view an image of the check online as soon as it clears.
And speaking of finances — there is no apparent correlation between the local sales tax rate and the amount Comcast charges me each month. They’re charging too little. Out of idle curiosity I called, but they were clueless. Only thing I can figure is because food is now sales tax free in New Mexico, Comcast doesn’t have to charge us sales tax for the Food Channel.
Want to buy Christine, or Bob Falfa’s ‘55 Chevy, or the Beverly Hillbillies Truck, or The General Lee, or Smokey’s Trans Am? They’re being auctioned this Saturday in Los Angeles by Bonhams. Take a look.
110 people won second place in Powerball in March because they played the numbers they found in a fortune cookie. The payoff was $100,000 to $500,000 each. See the story in The New York Times.
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