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February 23, 2010
- My latest OpenBook Toronto blog describes the eternal battle between spam filters on your incoming email and the spammers' random text-generating bots, with the focus on whether this might actually produce some literature. By the way, flarfs and spoems are now poetry genres, if you were wondering.http://www.openbooktoronto.com/jought/blog/flarfs_spoetry_and_spambot_literature
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February 18, 2010
- #30: It’s All About the Ball (and maybe the beer)-– 02/18/10 My high school was less than a mile from a bowling alley. For some reason, PE was called “Lifetime Sports” and we all schlepped up to the bowling alley for a two-week unit on bowling. I wasn’t a germaphobe back then, so rental shoes and sticking my hand into dark places didn’t bother me. And, I was good. ...
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November 18, 2009
- Two days ago, I received an email from a friend of mine. The email contained a forwarded SPAM email which tried to sell my friend some super Viagra or something like that. While I was still marvelling at how accurate targeted email lists had become, and while I was still conjuring up the many insults about my friend's manhood that are worthy only of good friend lest you get your teeth knocked ...
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October 1, 2009
- Many of us are thinking about dieting because we feel like bloated, unhealthy, repulsive blobs. The question is, what’s the best diet for me? Or, for that matter, you? There are actually more diets available today then there are human beings on the planet, leading to considerable confusion on the covers of women’s magazines. What’s a dieter to do?The Daily Sam would like to help. But ...
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September 4, 2009
- Some spam is tasty. Possibly because I write on the paranormal, I received an unsolicited morsel this morning from online bookseller AbeBooks alerting me to their new “Weird Book Room.” The message showcased cover thumbnails of ten representative titles. My favorites: “The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories;” “Outhouses by Famous Architects;” “Old Tractors and the Men Who Love ...
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August 23, 2009
- While most spam—the kind you get via email, not at the Piggly Wiggly—is a horrendous and offensive waste of human endeavor (for both the spammer and the recipient), some is so obtuse and indelicately mined from the collective human cultural archive that the reader may regard it in the same way you might regard outsider art.What I’m saying is that I sometimes get the most interesting spam, ...
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July 26, 2009
- Waste not, want not. In this time of scarcity, anxiety and making do, I recently felt compelled to use something I have in abundance. I bet you have it, too. That's right. Spam. And not the kind that comes from Hormel. Maybe I have too much time to think, or maybe some of the hilarious subject lines I've received just finally got to me, but for the past few weeks I've been collecting ...
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February 15, 2009
- The American Dream - - "Put on an average gain of 3.02 inches" - "I am Mrs. Sarah Welsh, an Englishwoman. I am married to Sir Jim Welsh who is also an Englishman, though dead now." And something about a Nigerian railway.- "Thank goodness he had a big wang." Absent a 'big wang,' you don't have an American dream.- "Esperanza Hedrick... help stop premature ...
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February 15, 2009
- Sometimes I think I have no imagination at all. I'm just a _recorder_ of one thing and another, a witness... like, I need to write down how "the retina accounts for 40% of all nerve fibers connected to the brain--but only one-millionth of a person's total body weight. Our eyes register 36,000 visual messages each hour... and can perceive about 150 different colors."Information overload? ...
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December 26, 2008
- With added internet presence comes porn. Sorry to have to tell you this, but if you blog a little, put out a video trailer on youtube, and hang out your shingle web site, and you are going to get a few dozen computers filling out your contact form and sending you URLs for "sexy girls home alone" and "perfect small breasts" and "big wet butts free."Before I was ...
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