Today when ID theft is so widespread, it is very important to avoid giving away personal information away as much as possible. Unfortunately most people, having no choice, end up giving away their personal phone numbers when posting on services such as Craigslist. Today a new service, CraigsNumber, offers a safe solution. The free service will provide a temporary local number, which can be posted or given away to others. When the line is called, the caller will be transferred to your real number.

CraigsNumber currently provides numbers for San Francisco, Washington DC, Dallas, Atlanta, Miami, and New York. The number you are provided with automatically expires, but can be set to work for as long as a week at a time. Craigslist already protects your email address by creating random forwarding email address. If you use services such as Craiglist to buy or sell, we strongly suggest using CraigsNumber to protect your privacy.

If you know of any other similar services, which help protect your privacy, let us know!

Links: CraigsNumber.com | CraigsList

Russell Peters, an Canadian-Indian comedian who’s segments have circulated around the web for over a year, has finally landed himself a standup comedy “movie” on Comedy Central. Skatter Tech has been hosting both his Canadian “Comedy Now” show and his New York performance for over a year. Anyways his new movie will air on Comedy Central on August 26, 2006 at 11:00pm (pacific) check your local listings for the channel and exact timings. Also note that “Russell Peters: Outsourced” will be available on DVD and Audio CD on August 29, 2006. You can either pre-order it from Amazon or wait until it reaches stores.

Update: See Video ‘Outsourced’ Here!
Buy It Now: Outsourced DVD ($11.99)

Links: RussellPeters.com | Yahoo TV (info)
Related: Comedy Now Segment | New York Segment

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The newly aired “Russell Peters: Outsourced” video, which recently aired on Comedy Central has unfortunately been requested to be removed from Skatter Tech and YouTube by Warner Brothers and CMI Management Services. We don’t really want to get stuck with lawsuits, so we have had to remove the content. Comedy Central doesn’t seem to be airing “Outsourced” anytime soon, so if you want to catch his segment you’ll either have to purchase the DVD from Amazon.com or get a hold of it elsewhere. Sorry for the inconvenience!

There have been many Russell Peters Videos circulating around the web for over an year now. The most famous of his stand-ups was his ~45 minute show in Canada on Comedy Now! (that can be downloaded from this site as well) Russell Peters is an Indian Comedian, who has many great jokes about the Indian culture as well as makes plenty of hillarious insults at other ethinic groups. He has also appeared in the Wild 94.9 Comdey Jam at the Shoreline Amphitheatere (Mountain View, CA), along with Carlos Mencia, DL Hughley, and many more. (over 20,000 people showed up to this event, which was also a Hurricane Katrina benfit show) Anyways, the video is 58 minutes long and is composed of many new jokes. Although it is not as great as his other performances, it is still worth the watch.

Note: This video is way to large and would cost a large amount of money to pay for bandwith. Therefore the video is currently being hosted by “Google Video” and thanks to Google you can stream the video at up to 200kbps. The video will play in you browser through Google Video as long as you have both Macromedia Flash and Java Runtime installed. If you would like to download a copy, just click [download] on the Google Video page on the right side. PC, Mac, Sony PSP, and Apple iPod Video formats are available!

Link: NEW – Russell Peters in NY via Google Video
Related: Original 45-Min Russell Peters Video (.rm – realplayer required)

Update: “Russell Peters: Outsourced” Now Available