Ruse You Can Bruise for August 12, 2003

Tue Aug 12 2003 00:13 "Stop, You're Both Right" Spam Roundup:

kstraub, New Rates, Lower Than Ever - Act Now
kstraub, Rates Are Skyrocketing - Now Is The Time

Tue Aug 12 2003 06:30:

Reading this MSN article about spam techniques gave me an idea. People tend to concentrate on the email face of spam--obviously, as it's the one in your face--but spammers can't make money if their websites don't work too. So you know what would be awesome? DOS attacks against spam webservers! It'd be like civil war amongst the denizens of the Dark Side. Or metaevil!

Being a Light Side hacker, of course, I don't think I could arrange that myself. But I'm just saying... y'know, if YOU know somebody... eh? Hold on, there's someone at the door. I'll be right back.

Tue Aug 12 2003 09:58 robotfindspillow:

Those crazy kids at the robotfindskitten consortium are at it again! This pillow was found by a robot in Cedar Rapids, IA. Keep 'em coming, America!

Tue Aug 12 2003 10:22 NewsBruiser Damaged Post AutoRecover©:

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Tue Aug 12 2003 14:50:

Since Leonard is coming home soon (quick! hide the dead guy!), I should take this opportunity to plug a few sites or other things you may enjoy.

Steve Schultz's Japan diary. Sample: "But as hard as the 'new school' toys try to be weird and 'arty' . .. the mainstream will always be just as weird, but much cheaper."
Solzhenitsyn. Currently reading The First Circle and really enjoying it. Think of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich as your gateway drug to huge Russian novels.
Bill Santiago, a smart San Francisco comedian.
Good Eats, a hilarious and absorbing show on the Food Network. The marathon is on September 1st. Alton Brown and Christopher Kimball (America's Test Kitchen) both live in Vermont -- hello, slash!

Tue Aug 12 2003 16:07 I'm okay:

I'm okay. I had a brief encounter with a couple of k-kind gentlemen, who explained some th-things to me. I thought at first they were thugs sent by a shadowy spammers' organization, angry at me for suggesting that people attack their servers. As it turns out, though, they were just a c-couple of interested observers who wanted to help me understand what happens to people who post Microsoft-branded content on Crummy.com.

I have to say, I do feel m-much better about the whole thing now, and I regret the error of my ways. They were really very courteous, and they say there's very little chance of gangrene in my toes.

Tue Aug 12 2003 23:48 not actually praying but imagining a scene in which a person who looks like you is praying:

Slowly Downward is a site that sort of directly/indirectly influenced my writing and how I think about things. I'm not sure where I came across it. I'm not sure who does it, but I'm led to believe the guy is an album art designer for Radiohead.

A lot of his stuff is retellings of stories or dreams, fragments of things. I always wanted to be able to write like that. I have this idea for the shortest story in the world, one that conveyed horrible urgency or infinite sadness in one sentence. I don't think I'm able to write it.

P.S. Dear LiveJournal, I'm so, so depressed and full of beauty. I have to remember to get to Hot Topic and buy that faux-vintage Astroboy t-shirt.

mood | melancholy
music | Coldplay - I'm Uncertain and Terrified of Change

Ruse You Can Bruise for 2003 August 12