Biting the Hand...
Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris is a genius, pure and simple. And he's a very funny man, too...

Errol Morris: Why It Makes Sense to Bite the Hand that feeds you:

1. Hand bound to betray you eventually. Preemptive strike. Get it before it gets you.


- posted by slaughts @ 1:44 PM

 
Dispensate Keith Babel
I've noticed a new trend in the spam I've been getting lately. Instead of the usual "Extend your penis by inches" and "Natural Canadian Viagra" and "Earn millions working from home", most of the spam that's been wending its way to my inbox has featured random strings of words in the subject line. Must be designed to crack through the spam filtering service I've recently started paying my ISP an extra five bucks a month to use for my account. Since I signed up for it, I have to admit, I've been getting a hell of a lot less spam... from somewhere around a hundred and fifty to two hundred pieces daily (I've had my email address for a l o o o o o n g time), down to something like ten. Worth an extra couple bucks a month? Sure... what the hell.

Lately, though, more have been sneaking through, like I say, with random strings of words in the subject. A sample:

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And today, the grandaddy of 'em all... this entire thing was the subject line.

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Best of all, on the bottom, this nonsensical string of random logorrhea...

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Break it up a bit, and it takes on an entrancing sort of poetic rhythym...

residual econometrica
lineprinter grievance
bismark childbear oneida
berea embargoes mid pleat diary
fabulous slick agrimony parliamentarian
abysmal century effusion
cowlick postage
conduct ouch complementation
swirly charta
radium belle ultimatum
doric ecumenic m 8
hangman biotic exhibitor
shuddery tina
schoolhouse dole
benchmark detour
bash spyglass intemperance
monochromatic delight
lefty bryn doyle
chromium caryatid
9 8 exchangeable
barrington winnie
diluent gainesville
delicate adult kenya accretion
fetal wrong
somnolent dredge
caviar bock
gay molybdenite
valparaiso acquire sauterne frosty
celanese pergamon
surgeon loeb
cypress heterodyne wry blackbody
absentminded country
malone ala karol bayonne
houseboat filth
hemorrhoid

Oh, and the actual message itself? Of course...

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Just goes to show, I guess.
- posted by slaughts @ 10:56 AM