just a few no-nos about spam due to the rise of the latest antville macro:
no, i don't think fake e-mail addresses will stop spam but it's already a winner if some more attention is drawn to this lousy topic by jörg kantel's initiative.
no, i don't think it's a good idea to send "remove me" replies to spam e-mails. according to the electronic privacy information center "'remove me' options on spam are often fake. that is, if you respond to request removal, you very well may be subjecting yourself to more spam, because by responding, the sender knows that your e-mail account is active".
no, i don't think we should use images to communicate e-mail addresses because that's the real nonsense. why then not build your site with photoshop at all? it's already enough that german mastheads have to be fitted with address gifs.
no, i don't think the old usenet strategies will help. it's not that they are generally wrong, but they have some distinct goals and look a little bit, uhm, yesterdayish.
no, i won't call spam anything else than spam. why the hell should i? both, unsolicited e-mail and hormel's product are inedible like a cup of hot pus and as necessary as a hole in the head.
last week-end revisited.
a great party at the sensomatic homebase on saturday. nice people, excellent food, entertaining slides.
an incredibly instant moving day on sunday thanks to zita, axel, pimi & flo, klaus & klaus and jo. not to forget the lekker dinner cooked by gunda, the new flatmate. thank you all a heavy-banana-box lot!
new address notification will be following, soon.
now i feel quite tired and wish i could take some holidays... and guess what? i will do: on thursday i am off heading for the french atlantic coast. woohoo!
world electric guide: electric power around the world.
e.g. in france, receptacles of type e are widely available which are compatible with with type c plugs (no grounding) often used in computer power supplies of german-speaking countries.
the guardian: "new from mcdonald's: the mcafrika burger (don't tell the 12m starving)".
but we haven't forgotten that "hunger talks start with lobster and foie gras", anyway.
süddeutsche zeitung: "jeder hält mich für einen republikaner. ich habe eine ganze dekade lang einen ölmulti gespielt, ich trage einen stetson, wenn ich lust dazu habe, und ich bin texaner. das ist alles. die republikaner schicken mir heute noch briefe, ob ich nicht werbung für sie machen will. ich sage denen jedes mal: 'lasst mich in ruhe mit eurer gottverdammten bullenscheiße!' die republikaner waren und sind dafür verantwortlich, dass die reichen reicher und die armen ärmer werden. sie sind dafür verantwortlich, dass die soziale balance in amerika zerstört ist. vielleicht können wir auch noch ein bisschen über den religiösen fanatismus reden, mit dem sie das land überziehen?"
larry hagman (known as "dallas"-crock j. r. ewing) makes a clean sweep of with some assumptions about america (and especially texas), with its republican presidents ("the dangerous" reagan and "the dangerous and dumb" bush jr.) and certainly with himself (via betablogger).
hey, i did not know antville.medien.uni-weimar.de, yet!
freememes links: thisisamagazine, tigermagazine, transporter.
if they just would spare me the pop-up-auto-resize windows...
village voice: “angry white men” by eric demby.
"the success of a handful of books that assail the bush administration as hypocritical, incompetent, and corrupt has demarcated a groundswell of americans who desire truth about their leaders amid the dearth of critical and official information that is today's mainstream media. it's a demographic large enough that any politician or pollster would identify it as pivotal in an election: 'stupid white men' by michael moore now has 500,000 copies in print and is still number five on the new york times top 10; '9-11' by noam chomsky has 205,000 in print; and 'the best democracy money can buy' by investigative journalist greg palast, published by an indie british press, just sold its paperback rights to american publisher penguin putnam for an undisclosed amount".
obviously there is hope for america and thus hope for the world.
i warmestly can recommend michael moore's book. it's fun to read and then you get hold of the wrong end of your own laughter.
it's probably more valuable than hardt and negri's "empire"... (but latter is more beautiful in the shelf, though).