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Outsource your own job. A programmer outsourced his job to an Indian programmer. Salary arbitrage: $67,000 - $12,000 = $55,000. He’s planning to get another job and do this again. (It’s probably not true, though)

Yahoo on a time traveler busted for insider trading. Unfortunately, the urban legends site denounces it. via Sid

The US $20 bill can be folded to create “pictures” of the 9/11 explosions. Comments bob 29 Nov 2006 1:40 pm: now that is some fucking crazy shit

The Law of the Playground. Interesting, yes. Nostalgic? Maybe.

Snopes is soon to be on TV.

The tourist guy has been found. (Or is this another elaborate hoax?)

Is Jose the tourist guy?

A portal of urban legends. The bunk stops here.

I got a “Craig is ill” letter today.

Make up your own urban legend.

A list of hoaxes following Sep 11.

On second thoughts, some rumours are true.

No updates till the weekend. I’m in Bangalore. In the meantime, remember not to trust anything that’s forwarded to you. It’s likely to be an urban legend.

That Nostradamus quote was not by Nostradamus in the first place. (16 Sep: fury, cbs, nostradamus-repository, 18 Sep: yahoo, about, urban legends)

There’s been several mails about Nostradamus’ prophecy coming true with the World Trade Center bombings. Stuff like “In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb” , “The third big war will begin when the big city is burning” I refer you to this article to put things in perspective.