Ig Nobel Prize winner: $711 million

Sanford (“Spamford”) Wallace, winner of the 1997 Ig Nobel Prize for communications (“neither rain nor sleet nor dark of night have stayed this self-appointed courier from delivering electronic junk mail to all the world”), is in the news again. Reuters reports, on October 30, 2009 that: Facebook gets $711 million damages in anti-spam case Social […]

Criminals hordes want to work at U Akron?

The University of Akron is overwhelmed with criminals who seek employment there. That, anyway, seems a reasonable way to interpret the news reported by InsideHigherEd, which says: Many colleges now require criminal background checks of all new employees. But the University of Akron — in what some experts believe is a first — is not […]

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