Intimidating Spam

Subject: FUCK YOU From: “HEY YOU PIDAR!!” <order@carderproduct.com> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:55:23 -0400 To: me@mydomain.com HI SHITTER IF YOU WANNA BUY SOMETHING —> GO TO http://www.carderproduct.com FUCK YOU, SHIT!!!! EVEN DONT THINK TO ABUSE FOR SMPAM!!! If that doesn’t get me buying something, nothing will…

Lemon Curry? No, It’s the Larch.

Is YouTube bad? Is it good? Would it exist if it strictly relied on user-generated content? Who cares? Not me when you can find someone has compiled links to 150 Monty Python Sketches hosted on YouTube. Then again, you’ll have to act fast as many of the sketches have already been pulled. Which, ultimately, is…

Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory

 Penny Arcade! – Green Blackboards (And Other Anomalies) Now I don’t have to go scrambling around the damn intartubes the next time I want to show someone this comic.  Proof positive that my Zen management strategy also works for information discovery.

Mac Rumors post generated drool

Assuming Apple doesn’t blast the prices on the Mac Pro given the current prices reflect 2006 prices for 2006 technology, I will soon need to re-evaluate my tolerance for buying on credit. I haven’t purchased a computer since January of 2006 and no PC tower of any sort since November of 2001. The drool-inducing factor…

Zen Master Greg

Sometimes I mourn the waxing of Usenet. So much of it has been overtaken by web-enabled GUI slickness. There is a whole generation (at least) that hasn’t experienced the joy of text-based cynicism. Before the web there was only usenet. And it rocked, cf Zen Master Greg.

Hyperwords Project

Is it Web 2 3.0? Is it just a jumble of Firefox extensions? Is it useful? I’m not exactly sure. Still, the Hyperwords project is fascinating to me. It’s a Firefox extension that basically shortcuts a wide variety of search engines and other knowledge expansion tools. It also lets you work with the page or…