Capitalism to the extreme in Russia. A Russian Grandma was caught trying to sell her grandson for $90,000. No she wasn't selling him to some adoption agency so he could go to a 'caring family' somewhere in the west. She was selling him for his organs. She even rips off her other son (the boy's uncle). His excuse, "I wanted to buy a house and a new car and some clothes. It was my dream." I'm sure it was his nephew's dream as well to be sold for his organs.
posted to MetaFilter by jay at 9:32 PM on November 28, 2000 (11 comments)

Geeks get behind Al. He maybe behind Shrub in the polls, but who cares when you have geeks on your side.
posted to MetaFilter by jay at 2:13 AM on October 17, 2000 (13 comments)

Spyware Control Act introduced. Senator Edwards is worried about certain companies spying on you. Now, these companies might be forced to tell you what information they send back to their servers. (via grc)
posted to MetaFilter by jay at 1:56 AM on October 11, 2000 (2 comments)

What will George do? Gary Graham is on death row and would be president Bush has a decision to make. Only one of six witnesses has identified Graham as the killer and four witnesses say Graham was elsewhere when the crime took place. I'm not saying the death penalty is wrong, but isn't it the greatest injustice of all to be executed for a crime you didn't commit.
posted to MetaFilter by jay at 3:56 AM on June 22, 2000 (26 comments)

I have a question for Matt. I notice on the Zeldman comment that someone also has the same username as me. I am jay. There is also another jay. I don't think anyone would want to impersonate me, but for some people on this list, this might be a problem. We could all become mathowies, I even created my own mathowie account to see if this really works and it does.
posted to MetaFilter by jay at 1:49 AM on May 19, 2000 (10 comments)