In High Gear

I was horrified enough just seeing them at the Wal(star)Mart yesterday, but just now, as I was about to tell you about it, I went ferreting around for a link, and found that the situation is even worse than I thought it was.

Barbie now not only is a teen with a scene, she’s got a blog too. “My Scene Barbie”. An entire crew of guys and chicks.

www.myscene.com/barbie/barbie_index.asp

Trendy as fuck. And the boy craziness continues …

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… while looking for images.

Win a Million by Proving Murphy’s Law
The Flaming Lips
Punk Rock Aerobics

And most importantly:
Jonathan Postal’s Art Photography

You must see these.

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Subject line is from an IMdB review of Men With Brooms.

I had low expectations. It’s an unknown film with very little star power beyond Leslie Nielsen, who gets to do a serious role this time. It features a sport that’s big in some places but pretty obscure everywhere else. Looking at the box, I figured what the hell.

And I enjoyed it. It’s not huge blockbuster, but it’s definitely worth the cost of a rental at Hollywood Videos. The humor is distinctly Canadian, which is something you don’t get every day. In some ways, the plot does conform to “the underdog team makes good” formula, with some feelgood family and relationship stuff thrown in there, but the details are offbeat and quirky, and I really did enjoy Nielsen’s performance as a grumpy ass bastard sage.

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… I would have saved the thousands of viral emails (as well as bounced viral emails that were bounced for having attachments, as opposed to invalid address) that I’ve gotten on account of w32.sobig.f@mm. Then I would have harvested them for their email addresses.

Because of the way the worm works, the From addresses on these are generally valid, operating email addresses. Spammer heaven. I am sure the spammers have already thought of this and are harvesting now.

The beautiful thing is that I’m getting far less actual spam. I’m not doing hard counts, but I believe the real-spam amount has dropped to about half, which I think might have to do with networks becoming too choked to allow shady mail servers to deliver before they have to be offline.

Thank goodness sobig doesn’t actually damage infected computers. If it did, it would be category 5, the worst kind of malicious software. For frame of reference, there has never been a category 5 virus/worm.

That’s not to say there’s been no harm done. I’m seeing networking issues, mail server system issues, people’s disk usage going over quota - there are plenty of secondary effects of that much traffic.

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Well, shyuh! My big secret is blown.

While we are at it …

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