the reality tunnel

I found this spam in my Inbox.  Since starting to co-present the Building Healthy Relationships workshops and listening to Chiara’s stories about this I ‘ve become more conscious about the gender messages that mediate our day-to-day lives.
From the e-mail:
Hello.
My name is Tessy, It is my pleasure writing you this mail as I saw your mail, [...]

Someone e-mailed Defiance, Ohio with some questions for a school project that produced this brain dump on the Britney Spears, the band, digital distribution, and media-based economies.
They wrote:
I know that big artists (for example Britney Spears??) are angry because of course they want the money, but I was wondering, do you think it’s more grey [...]

Next week is spring break for IU and public school students in Bloomington.  I have heard that many students’ spring break trips to Mexico have been cancelled because of parental fears related to reports of drug-trade related violence in Mexico.  Bz came over last night for dinner and brought some mole sauce she got on [...]

Friends!
I’m working on the How-To Track of the Allied Media Conference this year.
There are already a lot of exciting things in the works for it.   I’ve been working on a hands-on project to refurbish and build media workstations using Free/Libre/Open Source software during the conference.  I’ve also been talking about developing a session to use [...]

Act at http://capwiz.com/advofy/utr/2/?a=12162006&i=92217564&c=
This is what I wrote:
I am very concerned about the safety, health, and happiness of youth in Indiana and across the nation.  So, I am writing to ask you to end funding for ineffective abstinence-only-until-marriage education programs including:
* Title V Abstinence Education program, Section 510 of the Social Security Act – (state formula [...]

There are some interesting backup tools for system backups (Time Machine) but I want to just be able to copy and verify a directory (and its children).  I’ve heard that the commercial product Retrospect provides copy and verify functionality, but I’m cheap.
This is the method that I used.  I’d be interested on hearing feedback about [...]