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A new type of spam
Everybody who runs a web site or blog knows what I’m talking about – SPAM
To us it is a continuous phenomenon that people are clogging the web with nonsense like this.
Pharmaceuticals, enhancements of your body parts, people doing things in front of cams you name it…
But luckily there is help around and I’m sure almost anybody is using spam filters today. We for example receive an average of about 1,000 smd (spam messages per day) these days – our “record day” was beyond 10,000 – but hey it takes one click and they are gone.
But now there are some new types of messages coming around of which we would like to highlight two:
The first one (pictured below) uses a cop/paste legitimate text from documents or books to look like a normal comment. Well two things: First the text normally is not related to the post – bye-bye. Second, if you have a closer look you might realize that its just cut out from a document…
The second one is potentially more dangerous…
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Data visualization: Extinction timeline
The author of this “timeline of extinction” from 1950 to 2050 – the dates for “things” after which their existence has become insignificant – says himself that it should not be taken too seriously.
It ranges from WW1 to Ugliness and includes “Getting lost” (between 2010-2020), work free weekends or Paris Hilton (both around 2025), retirement (between 2010-2020), the Maldives, Microsoft and many more
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Time changed to UTC
We are still working on revamping this site and the first visible step was changing our server from San Francisco time to UTC. More to come soon…
Hello, we are back !
Hello again and we are back after more than 4 months browsing this planet. We’ve been to the East, the South and to the West and the North – we have spend weeks with mother nature and also weeks in some of the most pulsing cities and places of this planet. And we are back [...]
The never ending spam tail
Been away for a few days and getting ready for a trip around the world. So nothing came up here the last days – besides that 15,000 spam messages arrived – thanks again to the enlargement branch and particularly the one page plus spammers. Nevertheless our spam filters continue to work great (only 6 messages [...]
Duvet-Dayz: Our Best of Lists
Over the last months we have created a serie of Best of list that turned out to be very popular with our readers. Below you find an overview and links to all the lists…
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