Suspicious emails: unclaimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safe deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. They pop up in our inboxes, and standard procedure is to delete on sight. But what happens when you reply? Follow along as writer and comedian James Veitch narrates a hilarious, weeks-long exchange with a spammer who offered to cut him in on a hot deal.
"Open Data Excuse" Bingo
We might want to use it in a paper People may misinterpret the data Thieves will use it There's no API
I don't mind, but someone else might Lawyers want a custom License It's too complicated We will get too many enquiries
It's too big Terrorists will use it Poor Quality There's already a project to...
What if we want to sell it later It's not very interesting Data Protection We'll get spam
For open data teams; print out a copy and put it on your office wall. Cross out each excuse people give you. There are no prizes, but you can tweet "bingo! #openDataExcuses" if you think it might make you feel better
Generate your own bingo grids at http://data.dev8d.org/devbingo/
On this website you can discover an array of historical salutations. When you found a matching ending for your e-mail you can easily copy it by clicking on the “quote me!”-button and then paste it at the end of your e-mail. If you don’t like the displayed salutation just click on “New Greeting” and you get another one that might fit the bill. To help you finding the fitting quote you can use the filter function.
Gene Weingarten: Pearls Before Breakfast. Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let's find out. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html
Vielen Menschen ist am Arbeitsplatz oft langweilig, weil sie nicht genug zu tun haben. Unser Partner Manager Magazin weiß: Wenn sie es ihrem Arbeitgeber melden, riskieren sie den Rausschmiss. Und wenn sie es nicht melden, könnten sie irgendwann als Faulenzer auffliegen.
L. Vieira. Proceedings of the IX Brazilian Symposium on Computer Games and Digital Entertainment, стр. 244-247. Brazilian Computer Society, (ноября 2010)