Today we learned that lots and lots of Sarah Palin's emails are going to be made public soon, sparking much speculation about just what these emails might say. For our money, one commenter got it exactly right.

TMZ acquired an email allegedly showing Charlie Sheen hiring a hooker in Las Vegas. Gone are the days of Heidi Fleiss! New media has empowered men to find and hire hookers by themselves, on websites like CityVibe.com.

Leon Walker, a 33 year-old Michigan computer technician, has been charged with a felony (and faces up to five years in prison) for using his wife's password to read her email. Well, he had a damn good reason.

Scammers are targeting Facebook's new messaging system. I got my Facebook email account last Thursday. On Tuesday I received notice that I'd won 950,000 South African Rand in a contest held by the South African branch of Shell Petroleum.

Soon, all of Facebook's 500 million users will be eligible for an email address @facebook.com, the domain once reserved for trusted staffers helping users. That trust can and will be exploited by fraudsters, until everyone knows actual staffers are @fb.com

David Kernell, the Tennessee student who "hacked" into Sarah Palin's Yahoo! account two years ago by correctly answering her easy password-reminder question — a crime that Palin has compared to Watergate — has been sentenced to a year in jail.

Facebook is reportedly launching a Facebook email client this Monday. Soon you'll be able to have your very own @facebook.com email address. This is great. Now we'll have something to email our Yahoo and Gmail addresses with.

Another Republican official has been caught and resigned after forwarding a terribly racist joke to his buddies. This one's about a man who tries to sign his dog up for welfare, and the punchline is basically "black people suck."

17-year-old Luke Angel, of Bedfordshire, told Britain's Sky News that he has a lifetime ban from America for sending an email to President Obama calling him a pussy and other "abusive and threatening language", after seeing a documentary about 9/11.

Today In New York featured a new Google addition, which automatically searches your inbox to find messages you find most important. It "learns" the priority of each message by analyzing how quickly you respond.

Since the dawn of electronics, patriotic conservatives have longed to possess email addresses under the domain "Reagan.com." At long last, Ronald Reagan's eldest son, Michael, has made these addresses available... for $34.95 a year. Because "free" services are liberal.

Yesterday's post on the masturbating gentleman of the Brooklyn-bound 4 train provoked debate between people who hate perverts, people who hate people who hate perverts, and a pervert who defended his right to rub one out in public.

An email with a long list of recipients can be an easy way to accomplish tasks by electronic committee. It can also be an infuriating way to gum up your inbox for days. Let's set some ground rules.

AT&T sent out an email to all Apple 3G iPad owners on Sunday night, apologizing for, and trying to explain, the breach that exposed some 114,000 email addresses, blaming the incident on the "malicious" work of "hackers."

Today we looked at the errors of promoting oneself on email, sparking a commenter to tell us a harrowing tale of a mass email gone wrong.

Two years ago, internet entrepreneur Jason Calacanis quit blogging to escape angry commenters. Instead, he would publish only by email. He's since become a case study in how not to use the medium.

From a Craigslist roommate ad originating from a Department of Defense researcher: "On our bathroom door is a checklist. I like to keep a record of my bowel movements and I expect you to do the same." Wait—really?

Prosecutors say Adam Wheeler committed larceny and identity fraud, stealing $45,000 in Harvard scholarship money. Peers recall a quiet overachiever with a knack for grandiose self-description and a plan to become a lawyer—or so he told them.

Lovable Hurt Locker producer Nicholas Chartier, whose trash-talk email about Avatar got him banned from the Oscars, called a recent correspondent a "moron" and a "thief" in another imprudent missive. If only there was a way to not press "send."

A Tennessee jury convicted David Kernell, 20, the kid who hacked into Sarah Palin's email account in 2008, of computer fraud and obstruction of justice. Palin, modest and magnanimous as ever, compared the case to Watergate in a Facebook message.