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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Data hipsters, do offer me please a suggestion or two. I have a friend who has money, doesn’t use the internet a lot, almost never for anything other than business-related stuff. Recently he read somewhere an inspiring something (details intentionally omitted) that causes him to want to do a charitable act for the author, enough to make a real difference in this person’s life. The only relevant details: this benefactor is happily married for a long time, fifty-something, American, several children, upstanding sort, honest, kind and good, etc. The recipient is twenty-something, single, have no idea what she looks like and he doesn’t care, completely irrelevant for what he wants to offer. The benefactor wants exactly NOTHING in return, nothing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In any case, this is a situation in desperate need of some basic due diligence, the same way one would investigate before making any investment. The recipient is in Britain somewhere. Do you lads have anything analogous to our Spokeo for instance, something to do some top-level spot checking? It might be as simple as reverse-lookup of an address, to see that Jane Ayre (pseudonym) lives there, rather than Mohammad M. Mohammad from Nigeria, just for starters. Any other ideas on how to spot check an inspiring internet story for truthiness?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I had to advise my friend that in its current form the plan is 18 molar hydro-bad-idea-chloride, an unstable chemical that can decompose rapidly and spontaneously when mixed with reality, leaving behind nothing but pure bad-idea, in a highly toxic environment.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>