9:41 PM
Strange spam continues to come over the transom today: I just received an email offering to help with any "endowment issues" that carried the subject line "SARS Interest Mortality Rate = 5.9%". In case the (odd) conjunction of SARS and Viagra weren't enough, the spammer apparently felt they had to toss interest rates in there to really catch my eye. Less likely in intent but more likely in result is that it caught the eye of most people's spam filters.

Of course, the subject line could be the spammer's attempt to impress potential customers with a canny media culture critique. But I bet not.