At danah’s suggestion, I took the bait and sent a reply to the YASNS spammers. I picked “Carrie,” and sent her a note full of spelling mistakes and a run-on sentence: i got your email on myspacester isn’t it nice you are in san jose too now. its pretty nice but no san frnsacisco. do …
Author Archives: paulschreiber
Ed Zander is a dumbass
“Screw the nano. What the hell does the nano do? Who listens to 1,000 songs?” —Ed Zander, CEO, Motorola
great americans
anne tipped me off to an interesting book: Great Americans, which chronicles the stories of regular people with famous names: Did you know Elvis Presley lives – and works as a data supervisor at a hospital in Texas? That Jackie Kennedy is a sales clerk at an outlet mall in Mississippi? Ever met Marilyn Monroe, …
live 8 dvd faked up
Auto-Tune, which “helped” the Spice Girls and Cher, is being used on the Live 8 DVDs.
ln-s.net
like TinyURL and MakeAShorterLink, but, well, even shorter: ln-s.net.
fighting the RIAA
some of the folks sued by the RIAA are fighting back: “If somehow this activity was to somehow been pinned to me, it was somehow done so fraudulently,” she says. “There is no way it came from my household. “I have the least expensive computer system you can buy from Dell. The type you order …
logoworks scam
looks like logoworks is borrowing rather heavily from others’ work.
more MySpace and Friendster spam
Over at FastCupid, Brent notes some spam in his Friendster and MySpace inboxes. I’ve started getting the same thing. First, on July 5, I got this message from Friendster user Jen, whose account was deleted: Hi there, I’m Jen. I couldn’t sleep so I decided to do some browsing and happened on your ad and …
belated katrina notes
some news of note: George Bush signed and executive order lifting wage restrictions and allowing government contractors rebuilding new orleans to pay workers less than the prevailing wage FEMA’s email server broke. New Orleans being underwater was preventable. Former FEMA head Mike Brown padded his resume FEMA refused help from Amtrak, Wal-Mart, the Coast Guard, …
mac os x text editors
roundup of text editors for mac os x: SubEthaEdit, Textmate and skEdit.