Man Admits Faking Story of Wife's Death (AP)

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Man Held for Faking Wife's Death in Iraq
(AP)

Man Held for Faking Wife's Death in Iraq
(AP) 02/15/2004 02:31 PM
AP - A man believed to have been the victim of a cruel prankster who told him his wife had been killed in Iraq has admitted concocting the story and was arrested Sunday, authorities said.

GI Back from Iraq charged in wife's
death

GI Back from Iraq charged in wife's
death 04/22/2004 09:07 AM

Man admits to filing his own death
certificate

Man admits to filing his own death
certificate 07/06/2004 01:45 AM
Man files own death certificate to get out of DWI charge .. Better Dead than DWI

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Boy admits death crash charges

Boy admits death crash charges 05/12/2004 08:33 AM
A 16-year-old who caused the death of two girls in a crash has his sentence postponed so he can sit his GCSEs.

Iraq Roadside Bomb Death Story
Correction

Iraq Roadside Bomb Death Story
Correction 12/27/2003 04:12 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 27 2003 3:34AM ET

Faking it

Faking it 06/04/2004 08:56 AM
Can I stop him from going by pretending to come?

Faking Stock

Faking Stock 01/07/2004 01:57 PM
Should top leaders actively trade stock in their own companies? Take the Fast Company poll.

My Wife's PC

My Wife's PC 03/30/2005 05:27 PM
Computer Power User Mar 30 2005 9:49PM GMT

Faking SOAP principles

Faking SOAP principles 07/08/2002 10:50 PM
CNET Jul 8 2002 10:13PM ET

Wis. woman charged with faking abduction

Wis. woman charged with faking abduction 04/14/2004 01:20 PM

Woman Charged With Faking Own Abduction
(AP)

Woman Charged With Faking Own Abduction
(AP) 04/14/2004 11:49 PM
AP - A college student accused of faking her own kidnapping last month was charged Wednesday with lying to police in what they suggested was a desperate attempt to get her boyfriend's attention. Audrey Seiler, a 20-year-old sophomore at the University of Wisconsin, was charged with two misdemeanor counts of obstructing officers. Each charge carries up to nine months in jail and a $10,000 fine.

Man Scares Off Robbers by Faking Seizure
(AP)

Man Scares Off Robbers by Faking Seizure
(AP) 06/07/2004 07:30 AM
AP - An Australian man visiting a southern Chinese city scared off robbers demanding the security code for his ATM card by faking an epileptic seizure.

Wis. Woman Charged With Faking Abduction
(AP)

Wis. Woman Charged With Faking Abduction
(AP) 04/14/2004 11:40 AM
AP - Audrey Seiler, the University of Wisconsin sophomore accused of staging her own disappearance last month, was charged Wednesday with two misdemeanor counts of obstructing officers.

Faking Dual Inheritance Classes in PHP

Faking Dual Inheritance Classes in PHP 10/15/2002 07:15 AM
WebmasterBase Oct 14 2002 9:13PM ET

Faking Out Social Network Systems

Faking Out Social Network Systems 01/02/2004 06:19 PM
It's no secret that I'm not a huge fan of many of these social networking services. I have nothing against them, I just don't see how they'll ever make much money - because they're mostly based on two ideas that have trouble standing up to scrutiny: (a) people with rich social networks have no problem subsidizing those with weak networks and (b) you can easily define relationships in a binary way. However, I hadn't even considered other issues with social networks, such as the ability to use them for questionable purposes. For example, this article, which focuses on the security weaknesses of some of these sites briefly mentions a very sneaky use of such a system: virtual identity theft. For example, you create a profile at LinkedIn, pretending to work at a competitor. Then, you sit back and intercept any messages that are intended to go that competitor and use them for your own business instead. Of course, in this case it depends on others in your network not noting that you're lying, but the number of people I've heard of using Linked in who have made connections with people they barely know makes this completely plausible.

The Good Wife's Guide

The Good Wife's Guide 04/27/2004 01:12 PM
The Good Wife's Guide.

Faking SOAP principles with familiar
techniques

Faking SOAP principles with familiar
techniques 07/05/2002 10:59 PM
CNET Jul 5 2002 10:12PM ET

McCartney attacks wife's critics

McCartney attacks wife's critics 02/05/2005 09:52 PM
Sir Paul McCartney breaks his silence over people who criticise his wife, Heather Mills McCartney.

Court Upholds Wife's Right to Complain
(AP)

Court Upholds Wife's Right to Complain
(AP) 07/08/2004 01:59 PM
AP - A woman has the right to complain about her ex-husband — even if he finds it annoying, the state Supreme Court ruled.

Ex wife's plea to murder suspect

Ex wife's plea to murder suspect 07/24/2004 07:43 PM
The ex-wife of Mark Hobson urges him to give himself up to police investigating two double murders in North Yorkshire.

Blake not guilty of wife's murder

Blake not guilty of wife's murder 03/17/2005 02:54 AM
US actor Robert Blake is found not guilty of killing his wife after more than a week's deliberation by a jury.

Macedonia Officials Suspected of Faking
Terror Plot

Macedonia Officials Suspected of Faking
Terror Plot 05/16/2004 10:44 PM
The Macedonian government has been accused of executing migrants in March of 2002, claiming they were intent on attacking Western embassies.

Mark Hacking Charged With Wife's Murder
(AP)

Mark Hacking Charged With Wife's Murder
(AP) 08/09/2004 04:50 PM
AP - A first-degree murder charge was filed Monday against Mark Hacking, who allegedly confessed to relatives that he shot his wife in the head and threw her body in a trash bin.

Utah Husband Charged in Wife's Murder
(AP)

Utah Husband Charged in Wife's Murder
(AP) 08/02/2004 10:29 PM
AP - A man whose credibility began crumbling the day he first reported his pregnant wife missing was arrested Monday in her death, just before his scheduled release from a psychiatric ward.

Have People Lost A Fighting Spirit
Against Spam Or Is Pew Faking The Data
Again?

Have People Lost A Fighting Spirit
Against Spam Or Is Pew Faking The Data
Again? 04/11/2005 05:58 AM
According to the folks at Pew (who are suffering from a credi bility hit these days), people are growing accustomed to spam. It still annoys people to no end, but it's just become so common that people have given up thinking about it or fighting against it, and just think of it as an annoying fact of life, like traffic. Of course, it's not really clear that the data actually says this. Basically, this conclusion appears to be driven by two stats: (1) people trust email less but (2) they're not reading less email -- sort of. The study actually says 22% of people say they are spending less time on email because of spam, which is down from 29% the year before. However, it's a bit of a stretch to conclude from this one data point that people are resigned to spam. It could mean that email simply has become more important in other aspects. Or, it could mean that most of the people who were really annoyed by spam decreased their email usage last year instead of this year. The problem with the data is that you can't really compare the rate of change this year to last year, because (obviously) they're starting from a different position. Most importantly, this could just be an indication that spam filters have become more effective. It wouldn't be surprising to find out that many people have become resigned to spam -- but the data shown here doesn't actually seem to prove that at all.

In a Wife's Request at Her Husband's
Deathbed, Ethics Are an Issue

In a Wife's Request at Her Husband's
Deathbed, Ethics Are an Issue 09/07/2004 03:36 AM
In the midst of tragedy, a wife asks if it is possible to retrieve and store some of her husband's sperm after his death.

Utah Police Charge Hacking In Wife's
Murder

Utah Police Charge Hacking In Wife's
Murder 08/02/2004 06:45 PM
Free Internet Press Aug 2 2004 10:50PM GMT

Utah Man Arrested in Pregnant Wife's
Disappearance (Reuters)

Utah Man Arrested in Pregnant Wife's
Disappearance (Reuters) 08/02/2004 03:51 PM
Reuters - A Utah man who was admitted to a mental hospital after reporting his pregnant wife missing has been arrested in her murder, Salt Lake City Police Chief Rick Dinse said on Monday.

Japan prince absolves individuals over
wife's woes (Reuters)

Japan prince absolves individuals over
wife's woes (Reuters) 06/08/2004 07:29 AM
Reuters - Japan's crown prince says he had not meant to single out any specific culprits when he complained -- in words that rocked the royal court and public -- of pressures on his wife, but he added that steps were needed to make her life more bearable.

Update on my wife's Kafka-esque traffic
ticket dilemma

Update on my wife's Kafka-esque traffic
ticket dilemma 01/06/2005 03:09 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: I've received lots of email about my wife's catch-22 traffic ticket problem (in short, she is trying to pay the ticket but the court won't accept payment because the ticket hasn't been entered into the computer system yet. And the reason it hasn't been entered into the computer system, apparently, is because the officer who issued the ticket didn't enter the date in the date field).

I'd like to thank everyone who wrote to me about this. We got rid of the messages boards on Boing Boing over a year ago, and I'd kind of forgotten how nice and generous 99.9% of Boing Boing's readers are! It's inspiring and uplifting to get email from so many exellent people.

I thought you'd be interested to read the advice I've received about this so far. There are lots of ideas, but the four most common ones are:

1. Get a lawyer.

2. Get a cashier's check and pay the fine with it (sending it by certified mail).

3. Contact the officer who issued the ticket and ask him what the status of the ticket is.

4. Contest the ticket, because it is invalid with a date on it.

Our next steps: we are going to call a lawyer friend who has dealt with ticket problems before, and we are calling AAA, which apparently has a department that helps people deal with traffic tickets.

Here's one thing that might help (click on thumbnail for enlargement). When my wife went down to the court to attempt pay the ticket yesterday, the clerk gave her this "Proof of Appearance" statement. Hopefully, it'll convince the judge that we tried to take care of the matter.

Here is the email I've received so far. Link

Micah Wright Comes Clean, Ranger Story A
Hoax (This Is Apparently A Big Story In
The Blogosphere, But To Be Honest, I
Haven't Even Heard Of This Clown)

Micah Wright Comes Clean, Ranger Story A
Hoax (This Is Apparently A Big Story In
The Blogosphere, But To Be Honest, I
Haven't Even Heard Of This Clown) 05/03/2004 03:57 AM
Comic Book Resources has the full scoop

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"REMEMBER WHEN MOQTADA AL-SADR was going
to lead a popular uprising across Iraq?
(That was April's we're-losing story).
Well, he didn't, and here's the story of
how we won. I wonder how much attention
it'll get..."

"REMEMBER WHEN MOQTADA AL-SADR was going
to lead a popular uprising across Iraq?
(That was April's we're-losing story).
Well, he didn't, and here's the story of
how we won. I wonder how much attention
it'll get..." 06/24/2004 11:11 AM

The Raw Story | A rational voice »
Exclusive: Print document of Republican
Schiavo talking points leaked to Raw
Story

The Raw Story | A rational voice »
Exclusive: Print document of Republican
Schiavo talking points leaked to Raw
Story 03/24/2005 05:02 PM
that clumsy Republican talking points memo .. proper perspective .. Raw Story

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The Story Behind The Story Of The Google
IPO?

The Story Behind The Story Of The Google
IPO? 07/26/2004 12:14 PM
This morning, it seems like the big Wall Street tech story is the official release from Google about what they think they'll raise from their IPO. Looking over all the different coverage, it appears that many (especially in the financial press) seem to be getting the story a little mixed up. The basic facts seem to be that approximately 24.6 million shares will be put on the market with a range of $108 to $135 per share. As noted in the story, some seem to think that breaking $100 may prove to be a psychological barrier for many retail investors, even if the actual price per share is meaningless. Still, if the price is a psychological barrier, rather than a calculated decision, the investor probably shouldn't be buying anyway. A minimum bid from anyone must be for five shares, so anyone who wants in is spending over $500. The range is higher than expected, and could lead to a valuation pushing $40 billion. One analyst makes the bizarre statement that: "The question is not what the company is worth, but instead what people will pay for it," which misses the fairly simple, but important, point that the price people are willing to pay for the stock is what the company is worth. Meanwhile, many news articles are claiming that Google will raise $3.3 billion in the offering, which is not true at all (or at least, extremely unlikely). The details show that Google is likely to bring in about $1.66 billion (and possibly as high as $1.9 billion at the top of the range). That's because only 14.1 million of the 24.6 million shares are actually being sold by the company. The other 10.5 million are being sold by insiders. Now, that's a curious point that no one seems to be focusing on. While insiders do sometimes sell during an IPO, it generally doesn't look too good. While there are plenty of reasons (liquidity, liquidity, liquidity) that people might want to sell, usually insiders get locked up for a bit. It does happen, but in this case, an awful lot of that $3.3 billion (or whatever the amount actually is) isn't going to the company, but to others. The initial IPO filing tried to spin all this insider selling as a good thing, but that's pretty questionable. If people really believe in the stock, why are so many selling it at the very first chance they get? Doesn't inspire the most confidence in the world.

Not Life After Death -- Email After
Death

Not Life After Death -- Email After
Death 09/25/2004 09:08 PM

IBM admits it

IBM admits it 10/30/2003 11:49 PM

ATI admits to same "tricks" as Nvidia

ATI admits to same "tricks" as Nvidia 06/03/2004 05:18 PM

Man admits girlfriend's murder

Man admits girlfriend's murder 05/04/2004 07:55 AM
A 34-year-old Belfast man faces a life sentence after admitting murdering his girlfriend last year.

Lees admits she had second lover

Lees admits she had second lover 05/27/2004 01:30 AM
The girlfriend of Peter Falconio says she had sex with another man when she was living with the missing Briton in Australia.
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