Links from off the grid; November 7th
Submitted by Merlin on November 7, 2007 - 9:15am.
- My paperless office - O’Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog - “I’ve been using DevonThink Pro Office to catalog and manage the PDFs that the SnapScan creates. So far, I’ve got about 1,000 documents spread between three DevonThink databases.” Cf.: Ryan’s post from earlier this week.
- Basement.org: Enough With The Lists - “And speaking of lists, I’ve grown to hate the list-ification of information. ‘10 Things That…’ or ‘20 Reasons Why….’” I struggle to articulate how much more I loathe this genre of “writing” each day. Like lazy babysitters feeding pork rinds to fat kids. [via Chris Glass]
- Researchers: Ron Paul campaign e-mails originating from spambots - Paul’s people say they aren’t involved. But, to quote the Dude, “It’s like what Lenin said… you look for the person who will benefit, and, uh, uh…” Too bad spambots can’t vote. Yet.
- Wired editor bans PR flacks - Boing Boing - I’m struck by the absurd antics people have to resort to in order to get these loathsome choads out of their inbox. To willfully, and by deliberate human means, continue to manually provoke people who have begged not to be provoked? That shit should be actionable in court. End of story.
- Brilliant recurring calendar events? | Ask MetaFilter - Great discussion of the kind of events you’d want to be reminded of periodically. Along the lines of the time change/smoke alarm heuristic.
- Jonathan Coulton - Thing a Week 46 - You Ruined Everything- “I compare the process [of becoming a parent] to becoming a vampire, your old self dies in a sad and painful way, but then you come out the other side with immortality, super strength and a taste for human blood. At least that’s how it was for me.”
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Ron Paul spambots
Merlin, I come here for a variety of reasons and content. When you get political though, I must take issue.
I won’t disagree with you that it is entirely possible that a Ron Paul supporter has created some spambots. But Merlin, ask yourself, “cui bono,” “who benefits?” If you wanted to make Ron Paul look bad and you were afraid of his increasing power, wouldn’t you devise a way to discredit his PHENOMENAL internet support? Both scenarios are possible.
However, spambots can’t donate 4.2 MILLION DOLLARS in one day to a campaign like people did on Monday for Ron Paul.
36,000 plus PEOPLE gave money to a candidate who isn’t content to stay within the false left-right paradigm perpetuated by the mainstream media.
The spambot story is over a week old.
So, I urge you to do your journalistic duty and cover this amazing online fundraising juggernaut too. Or you run the risk of becoming just another run-of-the mill MSM (main stream media) regurgitator.