Heh heh, "deformed man."

-Looks like Beijing will be putting engrish.com out of business. The city is hiring a team of linguistic experts to help clean up bad translations around town in time for the 2008 Summer Olympics. You have to be a subscriber to the Wall Street Journal to see the full article, but you can see more than enough of it without logging on:
http://users1.wsj.com/lmda/do/checkLogin?mg=wsj-users1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB117063961235897853.html%3Fmod%3Dhpp_asia_at_glance_most_pop

-Apparently the Nigerian scam is less conspicuous if the scam isn't coming from Nigeria. I got a letter in the mail (actually sent from Spain, for authenticity's sake) saying I can earn up to 20% of an inheritance of someone with no beneficiaries if I'm willing to help some notary in Spain. *crumple* *swish* Nothin' but net.