Links: Y2K10, Reading on the Rise, Bogus Forwards & Nature Trail to Hell

  • SpamAssassin has been marking mail from 2010 as “grossly in the future.” It’s been fixed in the beta for months, but they issued an emergency update over the holiday. Of course, if they’d done the test by using math instead of pattern matching, it wouldn’t have been an issue in the first place. (via @pobox)
  • Droid Week highlights Twidroid Pro. I’ll second the recommendation — I’ve tried lots of Twitter clients for Android, and I keep coming back.
  • Uh oh.  I thought this hiking trail was supposed to be safe. on Twitpic“Weird Al” Yankovic finds a disturbing sign on a hiking trail.
  • It turns out that in the digital age, the average American reads three times as many words today as thirty years ago. (via This Is True)
  • Medal of Honor recipient Ed Freeman has been co-opted by a political disinformation campaign. Remember: any time you receive a political email that asks you to forward it to everyone you know, check the facts first!

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