News You Can Bruise for 2002 May 28

Behold the Yoda spam! (Thanks, Danny)

Spam scam contest update: my mother, who also received the Angolan spam, said, "This one sorta tickles my fancy, as it is mining and prospecting." Two new entries, the second entries from Sumana and Camille:

Sumana's entry:

• Country/Organization: Nigeria/State-owned oil company
• Amount: $21,500,000
• Sumana's cut: 30% ($6,450,000)
• Proposed crime: Fraud, profiting from government corruption

Camille's entry:

• Country/Organization: Nigeria/Zenith International Bank
• Amount: $30,500,000
• Camille's cut: 20% ($6,100,000)
• Proposed crime: Bank fraud
• Extra perk #1: You will help the war on terrorism because if you don't steal the money it will go toward purchasing ammunitions for African warmongers.
• Extra perk #2: You will be promoting investment in the US, as the criminals plan to "invest in your country."

Adam, who makes this sort of observation by sending out email rather than keeping a weblog, says "I prefer my beer in a bottle."

Are there any tools for doing unit testing with Inform? This discussion is the only thing I could find, and it rapidly becomes theoretical and useless to me. I'll probably find an interpreter capable of playing back scripts and use that.