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Happy Birthday Spam!
It seems like only yesterday that I got my first unsolicited piece of shit email from some piece of shit selling some piece of shit. But spam is actually 30 freakin' years-old today! "The first recognisable e-mail marketing message was sent on 3 May, 1978 to 400 people on behalf of DEC—a now-defunct computer-maker. The message was sent via Arpanet—the internet's forerunner—and won its sender much criticism from recipients. Thirty years on, spam has grown into an underground industry that sends out billions of messages every day." More »
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Eleven Ways The Internet Can Kill You
While I was pulling an all-nighter this weekend watching YouTube, my stomach started to growl even though I'd had like a whole thing of goldfish crackers and a bottle of Kahlua, and as I popped a diet pill and scratched a couple scabs off my forearm, I had a vision of the eleven ways the Internet could kill you. (Please don't sue: Of course not all the sites and practices listed below are directly responsible for any deaths. But if you're already at risk, you might just get yourself killed when you use them.) More »
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Crotchety Journo Has a Point
Former Chicago magazine media critic and founding editor of The Beachwood Reporter, Steve Rhodes, doesn't want to join your stupid Facebook fan page. He especially doesn't want to be notified every time some inky hack publishes another article, according to a ranty email he sent all his "friends" this week. Rhodes is doubly outraged by "You newspaper people who are ruining Facebook for everyone." Here's the rest: More »
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Press Releases
If we get one more plug from India or Italy or L.A. or some other godforsaken place, plugging the latest Ayurvedic shunt or whatever, cleverly time-stamped for several decades from now, we will set ourselves on fire. We see you hanging there at the top of our date-sorted inbox and we hate you.
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Betty Maul Has a Phenomenal Rack, Okay?
Apart from the previously noted tarditude in yesterday's Styles, there was a fascinating look at the world of tiny-cocked men and the e-mails that upset them. Lisa W. Foderaro immersed herself in the world of spam, and how it's now taking a personal toll on its recipients:With worldwide volumes having doubled in the past year, and ever-more sophisticated spammers singling out computer users with particular interests or problems, it can serve as a constant reminder of what is lacking for those with fragile egos — whether a sinuous body or an eight-cylinder sex drive.More »
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Also, Bruce Ratner's Penis Has Not Gotten Any Larger
Bruce Ratner is happily bulldozing his way through Brooklyn, molding Marty Markowitz's borough to his whims. Nothing can stand in his way; nothing can stop him. Well, only one thing, according to the Sun: Fake email. More »
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The Perfect Hanukkah Gift, Courtesy of 'The Jerusalem Post'
If you're not on the blast email list from The Jerusalem Post — and, jeez, why aren't you? — you're missing out on great spam like this:More »
