Political Spam: Look Out, It’s Coming

October 3, 2003 – 12:00 am

Using the California Recall as a baseline, I’m warning the rest of the country that you are going to get plenty of political spam over the next few months.
Over the past month and a half, I’ve received spam from Peter Uberroth, Ward Connerly’s Proposition 54 campaign, several of the trailing fringe of freaks and idiots [...]

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Ahem.

August 31, 2003 – 12:00 am

Some people decide to place the oddest things as trackback links. Many of them aren’t appropriate, or even germane to the discussion. Thus, trackback links will be removed in those cases.

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Mentos is Fresh and Full of Gunplay

August 22, 2003 – 12:00 am

No, Senator Feinstein, gaming does not lead to violence. Gaming leads to making parodies of ads, with fake violence.

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Schwarzenegger Hawks Beer, Noodles, Self

August 18, 2003 – 12:00 am

[ via GreenCine's Blog ] Arnold “I Will Terminate California’s Government” Schwarzenegger featured in a collection of advertisements for Japanese TV. The ad for Direct TV is prescient, while the ones for the energy drink Arinamin V are, well, strange.

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Solving the Junk Mail Problem by redefining it

August 6, 2003 – 12:00 am

[ via Anita Rowland ] A family in Washington State stops junk mail by using a postal regulation left over from the days of Comstock: you can forbid someone from mailing sexually oriented advertising from you.
The trick that makes this work is that you, dear reader, are the judge of what is sexually oriented materials. [...]

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Hacking ‘Do Not Call’

June 29, 2003 – 12:00 am

Jeffrey Kay observes that the FTC’s Do Not Call list may be easy to circumvent:
Well, it turns out that anyone can just unregister a phone number also. It’s trivial to obtain an anonymous e-mail address through Yahoo or HotMail. If I want you back on my list, I’ll just unregister you and then [...]

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Clear Channel sponsors ‘Pro War’ rallies

March 19, 2003 – 12:00 am

[ via Cursor.org ] Yuck. Clear Channel sponsoring rallies in favor of the war on Iraq.
Why does this bug me, and not similar work (pro and con) by say The Nation or the National Review?

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New Evil Spam Technique

January 30, 2003 – 12:00 am

MONOKROM reports a new spam ploy in which the message is sent disquised as a spam complaint.
Mutters under breath I’d like to give them a little shock and awe.

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Please, oh please Think Different….

November 20, 2002 – 12:00 am

[ via Scott Rosenberg ] The meme is out of control. First, Republicans were asking Democrats to Switch. Now Democrats are asking Republicans.

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Is it the shoes?

November 20, 2002 – 12:00 am

[ via Becky Chow ] Transformers! Footware in disguise. [ QuickTime ]

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Expatriate Different

November 11, 2002 – 12:00 am

The ‘Switch’ campaign continues to be a robust meme, continuing to exploit new niches.
Oh, but that guy’s going to get such hate-mail from the Rightists. [ QuickTime ]

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Regime Change Begins At Home

November 4, 2002 – 12:00 am

Vote, dammit.
Meanwhile, MoveONpac.org has a clever idea, but it’s hoisted on the petard of permission marketing. They have a great slogan on a ready to print PDF file. Unfortunately, you have to give them your email address to get the file. Stupid, stupid marketers.
It’s not like the Freepers aren’t going to give you fake email [...]

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He keeps the human genome next to Sublime’s Greatest Hits

October 29, 2002 – 12:00 am

Propaganda from my employer about Macs and the Human Genome Project. One of the researchers keeps a copy of the Human genome on his iPod. If he’s a Neil Young fan, does that me he’ll ‘rip, mix, burn’ himself a Cinnamon Girl?

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GOP caught hanginging around Apple Store, looking suspicious

October 26, 2002 – 12:00 am

[ via Camworld ] More people trying to repurpose my employer’s coolness. “My name is Bob Ehrlich, and I’m a Republican trying to look cool.”

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It’s a UN*X box. Just get used to it.

October 26, 2002 – 12:00 am

[ via Zeldman ] You’d think that web designers would be happy now that they can test, on their desktops, their work in an environment more or less the same as it’ll be in that rackmount at the data center. No, they aren’t.
It’s a culture gap.

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