Spam poetry, Tokyo marketing tricks, mass extinctions, why coal sucks…

• 1 – Spam Poetry, Part II
  “Unlike the previous installment—in which I transformed an entire “work” of spam into a single poem—this time I’ve culled single lines from a multitude of spam in an attempt to create eerily impersonal poetry.” Kaufman is a genius!
  (tags: poetry random marketing collage literature email spam)
• 2 – Top 10 ad-tricks in Tokyo’s train stations
  “Being stuck in a train for hours, what else can you do except notice that ad in front of you? You can enjoy the better ones! And that is exactly what we did!”
  (tags: ubiquity branding tricks marketing transit Tokyo Japan density advertising)
• 3 – Spam Trojan Installs Own Anti-Virus Scanner
  “The Trojan [...] has been fitted with its own anti-virus scanner—a level of complexity and sophistication that rivals some commercial software.” Will it never end?
  (tags: evolution malware virus trojan spam security computer)
• 4 – The Post-Modern Rhetoric of High Technology
  “Post-modernism cannot be defined except by saying what it is not. It is not modern; it is what came after the Enlightenment. “Web 2.0” suffers from the same malaise.”
  (tags: future technology Internet Web2.0 philosophy postmodern culture business)
• 5 – Strange Waste Basket Case Mod
  “A modder from China decided to create the world’s first waste basket PC case.” Unsurprisingly, does exactly what it says on the tin.
  (tags: humour computer geek modding mod case PC bin rubbish basket waste)
• 6 – A coal Chernobyl twice a week and a coal 9-11 three times per year
  Brian Wang has lots of good data as to why more coal power stations are an extremely bad idea.
  (tags: resources illness pollution environment fuel fossil energy station power coal)
• 7 – Mass Extinction’s Cause: ‘Sick Earth’
  “…species diversity and environmental changes were “decoupled” long before the extinction. Conditions on the planet were deteriorating long before species began to die off … casting doubt on the meteorite strike theory.”
  (tags: degradation environmental species Earth prehistory mass extinction Triassic Permian)
• 8 – Brain damage unleashes your inner Picasso
  “Damage to a particular part of the brain can trigger artistic talent, US neurologists show.” Now, where did I leave that ice-pick?
  (tags: dementia lobar frontotemporal talent expression artistic psychology biology neurology science)
• 9 – Can you pimp an inflatable sex doll?
  “South Korea’s finest have a bit of poser on their hands: does the pimping of inflatable sex dolls breach the country’s anti-prostitution laws?” Paging Chris Beckett; would Mr. Beckett please report to the front desk…
  (tags: technology issue legal doll sex pneumatic inflatable law prostitution Korea South)