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Spam getting funnier rapidly

John Haugeland — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:40:49 +0000

The most recent one I got said “Bush down to 8 friends on MySpace”. Immediately, I thought “yeah, and they’re all Karl Rove”.

Can’t stop laughing. I think I actually enjoy SPAM now. How creepy is that?

At least SPAM is getting entertaining

John Haugeland — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:32:55 +0000

You know those SPAM applications that are beginning to generate fake news headlines to get you to pay attention? Stuff like earthquake death counts for earthquakes which don’t exist, and etc?

One of those just advised me that Al Pacino has just been arrested for funding the mob.

I can’t stop laughing.

IANA / ICANN Gambling! Place your bets, be a psychic

John Haugeland — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:40:58 +0000

It occurred to me that I have a great way to prove the mighty powers of Nostradumbass.

[SB digg, reddit]ICANN has announced their intent to allow the registration of new gTLDs in a repeated auction process, starting for the princely sum of $100,000 for a handful of letters. In IRC in debate the question came up how many vanity 1st level domains (hereafter vanity 1ld) would be purchased.

[digg-reddit-me]For the purposes of competition – and there’s no money involved, I just said gambling to whore diggs and such – a vanity 1LD is defined as a gTLD which represents the name of a person, company or organization. This means that .porn is not a vanity 1tld, even though it’ll certainly be owned by a pornographer, because it’s named for its content. By contrast, .microsoft is a vanity 1LD, as is .billclinton (which probably won’t get bought; I’m just being thorough in definition and Bill has a good sense of humor.) If a 1LD is assigned on basis of trademark, it’s pretty much in like Flynn.

So. Where’s the psychicitudeness?

I predict that approximately 950 vanity 1LDs will be purchased in the first auction. (This has the startling price tag of ninety five million dollars minimum.)

Anyone want to play The Price is Right with me? Place your bet in comments (preferably as a trackback; this is a new domain and I could use some rank). Whoever gives the nearest answer to the number that turns out to be correct wins. (No price is right rules; going over isn’t different than going under.)

Incidentally, if you guys are worried I’ll edit my post after the fact, just check Internet Archive for the day before the auction. I can’t cheat; I’m being watched by www.bigbroth.er .

Bring it. 950.

The Luther? … the Itis?

John Haugeland — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:04:33 +0000

That’s right – someone’s actually selling the Luther.

Yay for Chicago. You’d think nobody would take something like The Luther seriously, but apparently Chicago watches too much of The Boondocks, and they decided they had The Itis.

Witness the end of coronary health in Illinois.

As an aside, I’m something of an amateur chef. I’ve been mulling this over in my head. Now, I’m scared to just try one, because I’m pretty sure it’d kill me dead on the spot. That said, I’ve been pretending to mingle the flavors in the mouth inside my head, and I’m pretty sure that, gross as it may sound, this would actually taste pretty damned good.

Anyone in Chicago adventurous enough to risk their lives to satisfy my curiosity? Let me know.