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I get about a ga-ba-ja-hamillion forwards — but this one struck me as worthy of posting. I’ll check off my “Eagle Scout Good Deed of the Day” box for April 26th, 2005, after I post this.

An Attorney’s Advice on Identity Theft

1. The next time you order checks have only your initials (instead of first name) and last name put on them. If someone takes your checkbook, they will not know if you sign your checks with just your initials or your first name, but your bank will know how you sign your checks.

2. Do not sign the back of your credit cards. Instead, put “PHOTO ID REQUIRED”.

3. When you are writing checks to pay on your credit card accounts, DO NOT put the complete account number on the “For” line. Instead, just put the last four numbers. The credit card company knows the rest of the number, and anyone who might be handling your check as it passes through all the check processing channels won’t have access to it.

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…that Google Maps couldn’t get any cooler… enter “craigslist + Google maps” : http://paulrademacher.com/housing/

Browse real estate using Google Maps’ interface.

It’s… it’s… beautiful. Just… beautiful.

A joke from my sister:

A stock broker, on his way home from work in New York City, came to a dead halt in traffic and thought to himself, “Wow, this seems much worse than usual.” He notices a police officer walking between the lines of stopped cars, so he rolls down his window and asks, “Officer, what’s the hold up?”

The officer replies, “Hillary Clinton is depressed, so she stopped her motorcade and is threatening to douse herself in gasoline and set herself on fire. She says her husband has spent all her money and the Democrats told her to forget about running for President in 2008. So we’re taking up a collection for her.”

The stock broker asks, “How much have you collected?”

The officer replies, “About 40 to 50 gallons so far, but a lot of folks are still siphoning.”

The wedding announcement hit the Statesboro paper over the weekend: http://www.statesboroherald.net/WEDDINGS/weddings.php

UPDATE 4/29/2005: That page no longer has our announcement on it, and I was unable to find any archives online. I’ve left the link up, however, since I’ve discovered that other random people’s wedding announcements can be …unexpectedly entertaining.

Woot!

[Ed. note: Nichole is so freaking hot.]

Byron York at NRO looks back - with the help of some “insider” data - on the actual performance of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. As we already know (via the 2004 election results), that film wasn’t quite the swing state barnstormer that its maker claimed it to be…