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I Think My Mom’s Changing Too
Like RustedJesus’s mom, my mom may be changing too. While she does not really “get” Web 2.0 (I mean, c’mon, she’s still using an AOL e-mail address), she did forward me this video:
Maybe she’s learning? I mean, she is on Facebook.
I Think My Mom’s Changing Too
Like RustedJesus’s mom, my mom may be changing too. While she does not really “get” Web 2.0 (I mean, c’mon, she’s still using an AOL e-mail address), she did forward me this video:
Maybe she’s learning? I mean, she is on Facebook.
FTC & Drug SPAM
———- Forwarded message ———-
From:
Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Subject: hey there
To: recipients
Hello,
hey where have you been recently ? I did not get any mail from you for a long time. Anyway, I found a very quality online pharmacy. I ordered some meds and I got them in 3 days.
Their url : http://www.e-agoyear.com
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The FTC addressed the problem on online Pharmacies back in 1999. Back in 2008 they shut down a major SPAM network. Simple proposal: the FTC should create an email address (say DrugSPAM@FTC.gov) to which denizens of the net can forward ads for the “quality online pharmacy” of the day. They can meet with ICANN, revoke some domain names, and add the same degree of hassle to operating a Drug SPAM firm that email users deal with on a daily basis. To add a touch of due process, send a notification requiring response to the proxy service the SPAMers list on the whois and mandate written response within 7 days or the domain is revoked and re-auctioned on GoDaddy with the proceeds going to Universal Health Care. Deal?
FTC & Drug SPAM
———- Forwarded message ———-
From:
Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Subject: hey there
To: recipients
Hello,
hey where have you been recently ? I did not get any mail from you for a long time. Anyway, I found a very quality online pharmacy. I ordered some meds and I got them in 3 days.
Their url : http://www.e-agoyear.com
—
The FTC addressed the problem on online Pharmacies back in 1999. Back in 2008 they shut down a major SPAM network. Simple proposal: the FTC should create an email address (say DrugSPAM@FTC.gov) to which denizens of the net can forward ads for the “quality online pharmacy” of the day. They can meet with ICANN, revoke some domain names, and add the same degree of hassle to operating a Drug SPAM firm that email users deal with on a daily basis. To add a touch of due process, send a notification requiring response to the proxy service the SPAMers list on the whois and mandate written response within 7 days or the domain is revoked and re-auctioned on GoDaddy with the proceeds going to Universal Health Care. Deal?
Which Murakami Do You Love? (a book review)
I am a big fan of Haruki Murakami. If you follow my reading list on Goodreads, you’ll soon see this. In addition, a few of my previous posts have mentioned my love for Murakami. (And, no, I’m not speaking about this Murakami.)
But, it’s not just my love for (the writer) Murakami which makes me love Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World. It’s another part of my personality too. In specific, it’s my love for other universes. Some may characterize this as science fiction novels. Science fiction, for me, is too broad. I like novels that present other worlds, sure, but other realistic yet fantastical worlds. (See: Ender’s Game or Y: The Last Man). I’m also a fan of geeky things like computers or language in novels (See: Snow Crash or The Future of Ideas).
Murakami’s novel brings a bit of each of these things, which is why I think it strikes my fancy so.
In his seemingly dual narrative, Murakami tells two stories “Hardboiled Wonderland” and “the End of the World.” Though the two stories may differ in time, place, and the extent of their realism, the entire novel is written in Murakami’s idiosyncratic style of writing – his ability to hit tongue-in-cheek on the same page as mind-blowing ideas with sexual innuendos to boot.
