Potpourri for $500
It was a grey and listless Sunday following a largely sleepless Saturday night, so I was a touch out of sorts today. Here's what I've been looking at (other than a whole lot of X-Files DVDs).
- So the first month of hurricane season has passed without incident. Feel a little more relaxed? This AP animation will put a stop to that.
- Anyone know anything about kaboo.org? A friend got hit with some weird kind of phishing thing on their site, ending up with her entire yahoo.com address book being used to solicit members. I was only able to find out a limited about of information.
- If, like me, you find yourself suffering from occasional bouts of outrage fatigue, our friends at the ACLU have some handy tips on avoiding activist burnout.
- "When I come into someone's house, the first thing I do is look at their bookshelf," Mr. Spalding admits. "This is totally that thing -- it's books as mental furniture." From a Wall Street Journal interview with Tim Spaulding, creator of LibraryThing, the service bookslut.com calls "MySpace for people who are over 16 and can spell."
- Speaking of MySpace, as a lark I set up a page for myself. Six hours later I had come-ons from several prostitutes. I begin to see why this site is popular. But hey, two musicians I enjoy turned out to have pages, so it's far from a total loss. [Warning to those unfamiliar with MySpace: it often plays music in your face whether you like it or not.] As an aside, Blogger's spell-check wants to replace MySpace with mishaps; I find this humorous.
And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to catalog some more books. Why yes, I do lead an exciting life, don't I?
5 Comments:
you forgot to check out
http://www.myspace.com/bjork
makes three musicians you enjoy... ;)
OMG, LibraryThing - I'm having multiple bookgasms rightnow.
Now I have something fun to do on this very dead workday.
And if you want one more MySpace friend, I'm at www.myspace.com/wndrwmn728.
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Remarkable. Someone took the time to type in comment spam, even when it requires verification. Crime really does pay!
Great catch on that animation, it does an excellent job of reminding us we're all gonna get the shaft if the big one comes to town, generator or no generator.
Hand crafted comment spam? Cool, although crime may not pay as much as you think (there's a hierarchical wage structure, just like legit working life). I've read that black hat SEO (search engine optimization) outfits often hire lots of overseas (think India) computer literate folks to manually click through links and post comments with links to their customer's site, all in an effort to drive up views and page rank. Hey, if Indian computer scientists work for a tenth of the wages their American counterparts do, how much less do you think a hundred under-employed housewives and college students go for? You can even make it piecework (just like in a factory!), payment per clickthrough or comment.
Welcome to globalization, baby.
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