I'l like to see some numbers on which organization brings more people together: The International House of Pancakes, or The International House of Prayer. I suspect it's the former, but the latter seems to be gaining momentum.

The human condition often leaves people with a feeling of emptiness. Some of us fill that void with intercessory prayer. I personally fill it with coffee and cheese blintzes. (Mmm.)

Anyway, when a group starts touting its members as modern prophets, it's time to get suspicious.

I've been getting two or three spam mailings a day from "people" praising PERT stock. Just in case you're new to the Internet, I figured I'd point out that PERT is a pump-and-dump scam. (There's great irony in a pump-and-dump stock called "Permanent Technologies, Inc".)

What's more distressing is how this volume of clearly related spam is getting through my otherwise impregnable GMail spam filter.

A bet from five years ago:

In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times' Web site.

At long last, flute playing and hip hop culture has merged.



Somebody call Doug E. Fresh!