Insulting spam

I am used to getting spam telling me that my breasts or genitalia are too small, but this is damned insulting:

"Your operation system is Windows98 or Windows2000 - you face a risk."

The funny part is that they then tell me I can reduce the risk by buying Windows XP!

Note also that the author of these spams thinks an operating system is an "operation system".

Bending spoons and PMT

Provoked by watching a documentary on Uri Geller and reading about a friend's pre-menstrual moods.

We want to believe that Uri Geller can bend spoons because we want to believe that things can happen because we want them to.
We are disturbed by hormonal mood-swings because we want to believe that our emotions are a reliable reflection of our experiences, or because we don't like the idea that we can't control.
As Epictetus said, there are things which are in our hands, and things which aren't. But distinguishing between the two is tricky.