Yahoo closes user-created chat rooms
— related to a lawsuit surrounding ad-sponsored pedophilia chat rooms via Philipp Lenssen #Google to launch Paypal alternative
— it’ll be hard for Google to compete with Paypal’s ubiquity, unless they drop fees via Jeremy Zawodny #Eclipse, free and gorgeous Half-Life 2 full conversion
— third-person mod built by students in five months of spare time via Slashdot #Video: Ural 13 Diktators' "Name Of The Game"
— excellent 8-bit music video, reminiscent of Junior Senior’s Move Your Feet via Simon Carless #Jorn Barger debates with a misguided Wikipedian about the definition of "weblog"
— this kind of debate is part of what makes Wikipedia so entertaining #Onion A.V. Club's roundup of video game-related songs
— the Pixies covered the theme song from NARC?! via Slashdot #Video: Triumph vs. the Michael Jackson supporters
— incidentally, iFilm’s weekly top 100 is an good mish-mash of viral video #TiVo demos beta of on-demand video downloading
— also, appears to be playing videos from the local network #Flickr to add photo book printing
— though from a different company than their photo printing announcement via Delicious #House subcommittee votes to eliminate funding for PBS, NPR
— Sesame Street is on the chopping block; an ironic update to this classic e-mail petition via Glassdog #
MyBlogLog adds support for multiple blogs and referral program
— I’ve been using this on Waxy Links for months and I love it; a simple app designed to do one thing perfectly #mp3act, streaming MP3 jukebox
— free and Ajax-enabled, but not as feature rich as Zina; requires PHP and MySQL via Delicious #Anarchist Cookbook author disowns book on Amazon
— but can’t pull it out of print because of copyright quirks via Delicious #Sony PSP 1.50 firmware swap trick
— works fine, but requires two memory sticks; a good step, but not ideal via Slashdot #Target phases out VHS
— a nail in the coffin of analog video; update: Wal-Mart still in the VHS game via Gizmodo #Yellow Antelope Comment Spam
I consider myself fairly knowledgable in the world of comment spam, but this one leaves me completely baffled… Two comments were posted right after each other to two different entries, with two different e-mail addresses but identical text. Here it is:
IP Address: 85.65.41.131
Name: yellow antelope
Email Address: [email protected]
Comments:
Think of every yellow antelope you know – they do not match! Enchanted experience of betting and gambling with yellow antelope http://spaces.msn.com/members/rear-animels/ yellow antelope is what I was looking for.
The MSN Spaces blog linked in the comment has only two entries, and they’re complete nonsense. The text files they link to on 50webs.com make even less sense, since they have no hidden links and no apparent purpose.
Theoretically, they could be driving up the pagerank of these seemingly benign pages, and then replace them en masse with advertising pages… But why inflate the search engine ranking of the pages for terms like “purple clown” and “yellow antelope”?
June 22, 2005: More bizarre animal spam today, apparently from the same people as the antelope spam. This one uses Blogspot instead of MSN Spaces:
IP Address: 85.64.46.113
Name: protected animals
Email Address: [email protected]
Comments:
The best protected animals in the world. protected animals tournaments are now available.