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I think I may have finally found a way to utilize my physics degrees. 🙂

Spammers: Keel hauling is too good for them

Since January 16, 2006, over 25,000 attempts to post comment spam to this site have been logged. That’s 1,000 spam comments since August 17, 2006.

I want this!

(via Loopy’s Manifold)

In a video from the TED Conference, Jeff Han demos a new kind of user interface (video below the fold).

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Friday Random Ten: 2006-09-08

	Name	Artist	Album	Genre
1.	Man of Stone	Stan Ridgway	Black Diamond	Alternative & Punk
2.	Fresh Feeling	Eels	Scrubs	Soundtrack
3.	You Won’t Succeed On Broadway	Monty Python’s Spamalot Soundtrack	Original Cast Recording	Soundtrack
4.	Happy Phantom	Tori Amos	Little Earthquakes	Alternative & Punk
5.	Crucify	Tori Amos	Little Earthquakes	Alternative & Punk
6.	Home	Dream Theater	Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory	Metal
7.	Wait A Minute	Frank Zappa	Sheik Yerbouti	Alternative & Punk
8.	Hold on Hope	Guides by Voices	Scrubs	Soundtrack
9.	Future Times/Rejoice	Yes	Tormato	Rock
10.	Any Kind Of Pain	Frank Zappa	Broadway The Hard Way	Alternative & Punk

Thomas Dolby Interviewed on Green Arrow Radio

(via Thomas Dolby’s Blog)

Listen to the interview here.

Everybody Wai Fung Tonight

Another one of these “gems” got past the spam filter.

Subject: ATTENTION PLEASE
From: WAI FUNG <waifung@virgilio.it>

Dear Friend,

My, aren’t we friendly…

I get your contact from hong kong business directory.

I’m listed in a Hong Kong business directory? Wow!

My name is WAI FUNG,

WAI FUNG? Isn’t that a British New Wave band?

I am Bank manager of major Bank in Hong Kong and I have a serious big business to propose you,

It’s been my experience that managers of major banks in Hong Kong speak and write excellent English. Hmmm, maybe they have lowered their standards recently.

I have in possession of mine details of amount 38.5 Million American Dollar deposit in my Bank, myself only have the knowledge of this fund in my Bank, and I want the fund move out of Hong Kong in a discretely manner which cannot lead or connected to me, this of which I will need of capable partner in abroad to make this business legally possible and safe for parties involve, I want you know i have many years experience of banking and i have help number of important personality got their funds out of HongKong in secretive manner so rest assured I can make this transaction work perfectly and safely for us with no risk, you understand, and with your co-operation this business is successful i offer to you 25% of the fund as yourshare.

You know, correct punctuation and grammar really help in getting your point across. You should really look into it.

Please if interested contact to me as soonest your convenience on my e-mail: fung_wai01@yahoo.com.hk

Oh come on! That’s not even the same as the “From:” address. It’s like you scammers aren’t even trying anymore.

I give you all necessary information on this business and how we make it work.

And I give all necessary opportunity for you to jump in lake.

Thanking you much now,

Marking this email spam now.

Wai Fung.

Tell me, Wai Fung, why would a “Bank manager of major Bank in Hong Kong” be sending emails from Italy?

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Joe Lieberman has been assimilated

Here the webserver information for Joe Lieberman’s campaign web site from way back in 2003, when he was still a Democrat:

Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.6.5 OpenSSL/0.9.6e ApacheJServ/1.1.2 mod_fastcgi/2.2.10

Here’s the same information for his current web site:

Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

(expect many outages during the campaign 😉 )

This is the same kind of web server software the rnc uses (and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad‘s web site, for what it’s worth).

I admit there’s real no significance to all this, but I can’t pass up on a post ragging on Microsoft, Republicans, and Joe Lieberman all at the same time.