A possible funny telephone thing: My county has a number you can call that simply reports the current time, temperature, and a bank ad. I wonder if you can give a spammer a similar thing...
Apple iCal, Google Calendar, Mozilla Sunbird... anything like that. I just set iCal to email me when I need to do something. I'm on the computer most of the time, and Mail is almost always open, so I'll see anything I need.
I didn't notice until I was at school that it was pi day, so I didn't get to where my t-shirt Oh well.. 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419796939937510..... (I think I got a digit wrong, oh well...)