My spam comments are very amusing. They range from the effusively suck-uppish to the back-handed compliment, to the completely irrelevant. (I’d share some of them with you, but that would only encourage them.)
Someday I shall do a taxonomy of spammers, by spammer purpose/ business, comment tone, and grammatical error rate. Just for grins.
In the meantime, yay for WordPress’s excellent spam filter.
I Sort Spam So You Don’t Have To.
In a major policy speech, Sec of State Clinton calls the internet the world’s town square and calls access to online forums a fundamental human right. Watch the video.
Here’s something cool. Theo Jansen creates sculptures that use the wind to walk across Holland’s beaches (h/t Gardner Dozois).
Man creates kinetic sculpture that moves and lives on its own. [VIDEO].*
He has given a TED talk (h/t Steve Gould), and more of his stuff can be seen here.
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*My inner Sheldon feels compelled to point out that these creatures do not in fact meet the basic criteria for life–they don’t reproduce and can’t repair themselves. But the rest of me tells Sheldon to sit down and be quiet.
Haiti is still in ruins. Help if you can.
