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This dog has put down a paw on the dominant proliferating swine source of email bacn. Getting an email notification of an “X me” message (no idea why that is different from any other message), I wasted my time/bandwidth to find someone sent me a snowman. Thanks, sweet thought, but…

I will not put up [...]

Thanks to Marie C here at Tulane for sharing this BBC Story, In pictures: Nepal dogs honouredImage from BBC
Nepal is celebrating the festival of Tihar, its equivalent of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. In Nepal, on the second day of the feast, special honour is bestowed on dogs.
On this day, called Kukur Pooja or [...]

This is really disturbing. I was looking quickly to embed a quick poll into a web page, so why not reach for a free easy tool? The first google hit on free web poll, nupolls.com, was nothing fancy, but seemed to do the job (ugh, decrepit 1999 vintage HTML generated).
Until I glanced at the [...]

What an attractive offer in my inbox:
GOODDAY.
WE ARE IN NEED OF SPECIAL, RELIABLE AND STRONG APPLICANT THAT CAN WORK
ONLINE.ATTRACTIVE SALARY.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
CONTACT: Mr Xxxxxx Xxx.
EMAIL: xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxx@yahoo.co.uk
SIGN.
MANAGEMENT.

I’m not feeling all that special, reliable, or strong today, so I am going to pass. But thanks anyhow. But about that beachfront Arizona property….

Link spammers never sleep. They are hard at work breaking around the edges of our futile efforts to keep ‘em at bay. And now they are getting harder to sniff out at first glance in the moderation queue, as they clothe their efforts in false fronts, which, if like an old wester ghost town, when [...]

01 roach flick treatment posted 29 Sep ‘05, 4.19am MDT PST on flickr
A nightmare. Reoccuring.

I was cleaning off my Edirol of old files and forget I had recorded this phone spam. I get recurring automated message calls on my do not call listed work number- they leave no number, so its hard to [...]

No, I will not follow this crud on twitter:

That is a quick delete.
In a few days I predict invites bearing glorious news like:
Texas Holdem Galore (txpokerscum) is now following your updates on Twitter..
ViagraPropeciaCialis (thebluepill) is now following your updates on Twitter…
NastyAnimalSex (dontclickhere) is now following your updates on Twitter…

Hughs Law to be proved any day [...]

I pretty much just delete most twitter friends requests… I already track most of the folks I want to. But after about the 6th or 7th “Xxxxxx is following you” message from the same person, I got a creepy feeling like someone was breathing bad breath down my neck.
If I have little patience for blog [...]

I’ve had a number of months of quiet resignation of the ever constant flow of email spam (now unreadable PDFs of stock offers, still sweet deals to enlarge body parts I am not equipped with, great sounding mortgage offers for homes I don’t own in Florida), not to mention the torrent of blog spam that [...]

I’m sure the old white hairs who pull the strings at Big Business sit back in the leather chairs of the country club, and fondly remember the pre-internet days. Back then, customers had no easy access to information about companies their practices, and they sure could not publish their pesky complaints to a place where [...]