Yesterday I wondered about the level of traffic on the spam site. Today I find they have posted them 🙂
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There is some debate going on at the moment about the statue of three firefighters to be located at Ground Zero in NYC. The statue is based on a picture taken at the time, but with a minor change. Instead of the statue being of the picture as is, there will be one white, one black and one Hispanic firefighter. While I have to agree and admire the sentiment behind it, this just seems pretty wrong to me. Why can’t the statue be based on the three men who were in the picture the statue is of?

Few more minor changes on the site, the links in new windows, timestamps as permalinks, archives all fine, so a full .1 change in the version number…sad huh?

Word of the day: discretion
t noun [MASS NOUN] 1 the quality of behaving or speaking in such a way as to avoid causing offence or revealing private information: she knew she could rely on his discretion | I’ll be the soul of discretion.
2 the freedom to decide what should be done in a particular situation: it is up to local authorities to use their discretion in setting the charges | honorary fellowships may be awarded at the discretion of the council.
— PHRASES discretion is the better part of valour | proverb: it’s better to avoid a dangerous situation than to confront it.
—ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘discernment’): via Old French from Latin discretio(n-) ‘separation’ (in late Latin ‘discernment’), from discernere