Dropsafe

El Reg Anti-spam firm Blue Security is to scrap its spam-fighting effort after deciding its escalating conflict with a renegade spammer was placing the internet as a whole in jeopardy. Blue Security established a Do Not Intrude Registry’ (akin to the Do Not Call Registry for telemarketing) with around 450,000 members. Participants downloaded a small

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I’m just back from the Blogs and Social Media Forum which was stonkingly good fun. Some quick bulletpoints before I go to bed, so I can remember to write about them properly tomorrow: Chris Barger, IBM’s chief blogger, is a deeply cool dude; I regret missing his session, but apparently recordings/podasts will soon be up.

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I just like the natural Banksyness of this… …and this is a closeup of what Jim called my dada photo… …and finally, one from the London Underground this morning. If you see someone vandalising a tube train, they will send a helicopter. Yes, really. We’re sure. They swear.

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Blogs & Social Media 2006 – flickr1 flickr2

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The backing track for the Sony Bravia ad is “Heartbeats” by Swedish band “The Knife”, covered by José Gonzales. I finally found the original, and I swear it’s like taking a step back into the 1980s: http://hype.non-standard.net/search/heartbeats/1/ – load the little music player, track 5. There are several versions, it’s a bit hit and miss

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cmmRTW/message/756 The first part of the ride to Medellin was great – friendly locals at petrol and coffee stops, no rain, decent road. Then I was stopped at an army checkpoint. A young soldier insisted he wanted to search the panniers. I couldn’t get off the bike where I was because of the adverse camber,

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Darn tootin’.

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I’m not usually one to do advertising for big corporates – unless I happen to work for them – but this just dropped into my mailbox and although totally inapplicable to me, I suspect it may be momentous: From: noreply@news.skype.com (Skype) Subject: Free calls to any phone within the US and Canada with Skype Calls

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In an indescribable way it was a nice advert, so it definitely deserves a spoof. (Via)

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Independent Marilyn Monroe would have turned 80 on 1 June this year. It’s an anniversary that raises intriguing questions… I’m having a bit of a Douglas Adams Tense Moment – not this sort of Douglas Adams Tense Moment, but more a Dr Dan Streetmentioner’s Time Traveller’s Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations moment. The above describes

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Useless fact for today: apparently all these SciFi authors with their ‘FTL drives‘ have been using the wrong word all this time; they should be using ‘superluminal’ (Wikipedia). The former wording is far more common than the latter, but then the drives are nonexistent, so that’s understandable; if you’ve ever seen any of the pre-sound-barrier-breakage

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