OK, this one has to be shared in full, just because it’s so utterly… nonsensical. The link’s been munged to avoid promoting the spammer’s site, but everything else is as in the original e-mail:

Subject: Live complete life today! High-quality medication only at our site.
From: “Jiggle E. Capitol” <frictional@verbaldiarrhoea.com>

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Gotta admit, Mr. Capitol’s e-mail address is quite apt! (Or should I call him Jiggle?)

It’s a SQNY! And other bootleg electronics, such as Panasoanic and Rikon. (found via Geisha Asobi)

The site is in Japanese, but the pictures linked in the left frame should speak for themselves…

Oh, and those PolyStations? They’re nothing more than NES clones in PlayStation clothing. You’ve got to wonder how many people were misled by them…

And here are some more cases of industrial plagiarism found via Google. My favorite? PieOnEar. No, really.

Not as good as his polysyllabic cousins, I’ll admit, but this spam pseudonym is still oddly amusing: “Chose D. Balls”.

And I have another spam here, this one advertising an online casino, from one “Ogre Beer”. Now I suddenly have the mental image of Shrek downing a mug of booze.

The latest from the spamonym files: “Preposition A. Perot”. No relation to H. Ross, I suppose…

The latest from the ‘silly spammer names’ files: Ponies M. Lounges.

Webmasters, if you don’t want something to be publicly accessible, then for all that is good, don’t make it publicly accessible! Otherwise, Google might just index it, and in this case, that’s definitely Not a Good Thing. (via Lockergnome)

The sad thing is, there are people out there who would fall for this:

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Note the reversed slashes, which mean that the link won’t work correctly on any standards-compliant browser. I suppose this scammer only uses Internet Exploiter… serves him right, I think. 😉

And naturally, the scammer’s site has already been shut down. Duh. Really, Mr. Inept Scammer, you at least remotely considered that using one of the most popular free hosting services was not a good idea, didn’t you? Guess not.

::sigh:: Scammers these days. They can’t even be convincing.

Internet Explorer can be crashed by using a particular four-character string in a style sheet. Unbelievable.

Here’s a usability howler for you: If you forget the password you used to register on Adobe.com, the site offers a form to recover your lost password. Only one problem… you need to know your password in order to access the form. D’oh!

(via the oft-amusing This Is Broken)

Along the same lines as the previous post, and also found via some Engrish-related Googling… here’s what you get if you buy bootlegged Star Wars DVDs.

Some choice selections from the… rather fractured descriptions on the backs of the cases:

Attack of the Clones: “Improbity trade the federal strike against the nape of the star the empress ten years, day that own thenot of the common run power line peaceful anner the gold grow upped…”

Return of the Jedi: “The ream person is greatly terrified, with the’s war!”

And it’s a bit blurry– I’m especially unsure of the second word– but I believe the description of The Empire Strikes Back starts off: “mark rice the is improbity influence for line road fram for the sake of resisting the black warrior of day follow the elder generation”.

I also love the fact that Return of the Jedi stars “Carie Fishersir” and “Alecgu Imess”. And is rated both R and PG. Those silly bootleggers.

And this is completely ignoring the subtitles from Episode IV…