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Spam of the Day - Physiognomy

I had to blog this “interesting” piece of SPAM I got today - well, at least noticed today. Going through my SPAM folder - delete - delete - delete - New screening tool for employers takes facial science to new highs - wait a second - what is this? Well, it is stock market related SPAM - which has increased in volume a great deal in recent years. Seems like these spammers are treading really dangerous waters with spam laws as well as potential problems with the SEC. The stock is a company that uses Physiognomy (read the wikipedia article), which is “…the art of judging human character from facial features…” (quote from the spam). Okay, that is bad enough - and as wikipedia say - it is generally considered a “folk science” - but this company actually uses it for “Employee Screening, Human Naming Services, as well as a new radical concept in online dating” (again, from the spam message).

Employee screening? Yipes. Human naming services? Zowie - I never even heard of such a thing. Online dating - that I have heard of and seems to be the most, uh, logical application of this, uh, technology. So, there is the spam of the day - and a pretty good vocab word of the day also - Physiognomy.