News You Can Bruise for 2002 August 1

Leonardonics spam: Are you the only one?

Beating The Salon Horse: What if Salon's announcements were written the same way as their news articles?

Salon tries to wring money out of the faithful with Salon Premium. But will the Napster generation pay for secondhand reporting and warmed-over commentary?

Salon's new blogging service will make sure no bobo voice goes unheard. But will the new content save the magazine... or overshadow it?

Salon announces improved revenue in new quarterly results. But without the sneaky accounting tricks they deplore in others, the numbers tell a different story.

I'm here all week! Tip your waitresses!

Well, he's puffing a big ceegar, feeling mighty slick
Cause he thinks he's got your union licked
When he looks out the window and what does he see?
Popcorn popping on the apricot tree

FHW: CollabNet turning Japanese, Korean.

Even by my jaded standards of spam irony, this is pretty funny:

From: iHateSpam <greatoffers@[domain].com>
To: SPAM@CRUMMY.COM
Subject: Finally. Eliminate Annoying Spam!

Tux Paint, a cute piece of software from the prolific Bill Kendrick.