(b)logophile

A couple of spams got past Gmail today. It seems they’re putting the spam pitch in an image, and padding out the message with random text. But the randomisation is getting cleverer, or else they’re scraping from some very strange sites… “When we last saw pesticide it wasn’t diebold. Then after messieurs or runt got [...]

It seems that penguins have been around for more than 60 million years. Here’s Waimanu, courtesy of the geology department of my old university. Here’s the computer science department where I did my undergraduate degree, with their penguin mascot. But even after 60 million years of trying, they still can’t do syllogisms.

Is anyone using Upcoming.org? I just signed up (as user tikitu, naturally), prompted by the awesome potential of Peter Oliver’s Upcomingscrobbler. As you probably won’t have guessed from the name, this site takes the top artists from your last.fm profile (driven by the Audioscrobbler engine — the light begins to dawn!) and cross-indexes them with [...]