Links for 22-10-2006
Spam poetry, Tokyo marketing tricks, mass extinctions, why coal sucks…
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“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!
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“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!”
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“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?
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“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.”
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“A modder from China decided to create the world’s first waste basket PC case.” Unsurprisingly, does exactly what it says on the tin.
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Brian Wang has lots of good data as to why more coal power stations are an extremely bad idea.
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“…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.”
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“Damage to a particular part of the brain can trigger artistic talent, US neurologists show.” Now, where did I leave that ice-pick?
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“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…
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