where's your knight in shining armor now, girlfriend?

Nail on the head. It has been a disillusioning week for Obama fans on the left. And yet I sense the media spin of Hillary always in the mainstream media coverage, the secret sauce.

spam haiku is addictive, yo

what can i say? it has been such a fun distraction, this little spam haiku addiction. drunken late night get-rich quick schemes get bandied about by us so often in downtown champaign. all our joking aside, monetizing content & such, at its root was a little creative spark of something new, or new enough. spam attacking us first in the dozens, then hundreds of emails a day, worming into the workday & leisure time alike. even if filtered away, the damn emails still have to be glanced over one at a time, as so often important non-spam emails creep in the spam box too.

what to do? the spams themselves gave us our answer: trying to evade the filtering anti-spam software deployed against them, the spam marketers had begun filling emails with gibberish text, almost-phrases randomly deployed to evade, and penetrate. we certainly felt penetrated. and in turn, we went all meat beat on their asses, giving birth. we would take their words and use them to make money off the bastards. Thanks, AdSense!

process? yes, these are the spam marketer's words from their emails, cherry-picked and assembled mosaic/collage style by the spam haiku collective. they did not always come from a single spam mail, but usually from a given day's bursting spam mail box, collected, selected, digested, sorted, spewed, fiddled-with, and blogged all over your ass. enjoy, and join us.

it's alive, it's alive!

we're delighted to announce and cross-promote the latest tentacle of the mother squid, live as of today. enjoy.

bush would like the platter special, please.

terrifying.

tehran, here we come? the iranian people will throw rose petals at our feet and welcome us as liberators, isn't that how it goes?

sick sick world. and so nice that this is all spelled out in the british papers (look, brits: here's your bloody troops lined up along the border by all these iranian sites that will be blowing up soon) but nary a peep of it here. sigh.

land of hand (detail)

if this worked, then blogger truly is kicking iWeb's ass.

reach out, reach out and touch someone

well, that didn't take long. ours should arrive on Monday. (please. hundred dollars off for a refurb? sign my broke ass up.)

caved on iWeb already too...course, we bought that for the .mac iPhone integration. sweet! and you know they've got some twitteresque iWeb/iPhoto/iPhone mashup in the wings, where you can autopost to a photoblog and tap tap tap your blog text from wherever you, however you be...we live in exciting times.

we'll take google alternatives for three hundred, alex

now you know we're loyal google junkies. hell, we even dumped iWeb right before a shiny update in favor of beloved Blogger. But dear Slate has a fabulous overview of some nifty alternatives out there. We're dying to torment a ChaCha guide. But we fear Bezos is coming for us in our sleep, nearly as much as we used to fear Nicole Kidman.