Month: August 2002

A great quote from a CBS article on spammers.

Bernard Balan, 51, who operates a bulk mail site … says he’s gone through “unbelievable hardships” to keep the spam flowing. … “My operating costs have gone up 1,000 percent this year, just so I can figure out how to get around all these filters”.

Best news I’ve read all day ;) Full story at CBS.

The SliMP3. I’ve been trying to figure out how to get my MP3s playing downstairs, without a noisy PC with fan to do it. This looks like a good way to do it; stream them from your PC upstairs!

• Supports all MP3 bit rates and VBR, plus MPEG2
• Communicates using IP over Ethernet, open streaming/control protocol
• Infrared remote control
• Small enough that you can put it anywhere – on a shelf, bedside table, etc.
• Open-source server, written in Perl (GPL)
• Optional HTTP interface – control the player and manage your playlists from a web browser!

Only $249. (Shipping may be a different matter, though…)

Jon Ronson at the Guardian investigates making a “dirty bomb”. It turns out to be not quite as easy as all that:

I log on to Ask Jeeves and type, ‘Where can I buy some uranium?’ Jeeves responds, ‘You can find anything at eBay. eBay has everything you’re looking for. Find it all at eBay.’

Fantastic article on file-swapping, from the artist’s perspective by Janis Ian.

Man ends up with barnacle stuck to his penis. Forwarded from forteana.