一个孩子和一个GMAIL帐号

“一名母亲愿意用所生第一个孩子交换Gmail帐号”这是一个被很多人用过的题目，都说是CHINABYTE最先报道的，在文中提到的thespoof中搜索一下，原文是这样：

Woman offers first-born child for Gmail account
TENNESSEE - Nashville resident Vida Mae Bakerstrue posted yesterday on GmailSwap.com that she would trade her first-born child for a Gmail invitation.
“Humphrey don’t cause nothing but trouble anyways,” Vida Mae told reporters. “I thought he’d grow out of that firebug thang but it’s followed him into his twenties.”
Humphrey Bakerstrue, the first-born in question, is a 23 year-old car wash attendant with a long police record for suspected arson.
“I never started any of them fires,” he said. “I just like to watch.”
Vida Mae is hoping for a Gmail account as soon as possible and has hinted that she might add her 15 year-old daughter, Vida Faye, to sweeten the offer.
“She’s a purty gal like me,” her mother said, “and she always aims to please.”
Gmail, currently the hottest ticket on the Internet, is a free email account totaling 1000 megabytes of storage and is offered by search engine monarch, Google Inc. A highly sought-after prize for many netizens, Gmail has piqued surfer curiosity since it debuted in Beta to a select few. Presently, it is only available by invitation from Google or Gmail members. Invitations are also being auctioned on Ebay.
Although no one has responded to her offer, Vida Mae remains optimistic.
“I’m a hoping some kind soul sees fit to send me a Gmail invite soon,” she said, “and did I mention that I’ll throw in a box of Moon Pies?”

旧中国为此发明了一个词叫“草标”，但以上这种事情却好象只能在“发达”的地方发生。


这或许只是一个平常的母亲，我们的温饱解决了，但难道这就是所谓的“数字化生存”？

奇怪的是原文作者注明的时间是Story written: 09 February 2005，而天极的报道是在【2004-05-25 09:34】，仍然要祝记者节快乐！

旧稿@十一月 8, 2006