Spam Flood Blog

Cryonics. Virtual reality. Gene therapy/RNA interference. Space colonization. Cybernetics. Autonomous self-replicating robotics. Molecular manufacturing. Megascale engineering. Mind uploading. Artificial General Intelligence.

The computer virus turns 25 years old this year. The computer virus conception story begins in 1981, when a tech-savvy 9th grader named Richard Skrenta got an Apple II for Christmas.

"Whether it's infighting among creators, bad marketing, new technologies, or just plain being crummy, there are almost as many reasons why coding languages didn't become popular as there are programming languages." The article examines ALGOL 68, Befunge, REBOL, ColdFusion, brainf*ck, Java2k, INTERCAL, VRML, SMIL, Haskell, Delphi and PowerBuilder.

Early iPhone owners are overwhelmingly happy with their devices...In one of the first such studies, 90% of 200 owners said they were "extremely" or "very" satisfied with their phone. And 85% said they are "extremely" or "very" likely to recommend the device to others

Breaking News! Ed Failure of Iowans Against Tax Relief, the group that excluded Ron Paul from their fraudulent "Presidential Candidates Forum," has jumped off the sinking ship that is the John McCain campaign. You may now return to your regularly scheduled program, the Ron Paul Revolution.

Reports today that US troops have killed 429 Iraqi civilians last year alone at check-points for infractions as simple as approaching too fast.

When it comes to escaping danger, mystifying others with his magic, and even getting the girls, Harry Potter is the man. If you don’t believe me here’s 8 reasons why Harry Potter is better than you:

For all of you who suffer from lack of desktop effects or compositioning! Send an email to jon.carvill@amd.com and tell him what a crappy experience ATi is compared to nVidia. We're making him a favor. Or else, we stop buying ATi. All of nvidia's cards are supported under Linux. Infact, the 7800GS was supported by linux before the official driver.

A leaked brochure for the new Porsche 911 GT2 proves it's a monster. 530 horsepower from the 3.6-liter, turbocharged flat six can get the GT2 from zero to 60 in 3.6 seconds and from zero to 100 in 7.4 seconds. Top speed is 204 mph, making it the first factory 911 to hit over 200 mph with no modifications.

Kucinich is usually too radical for me, but he's right on about impeaching Cheney.

The NSN explained, the “benchmarks claimed as ’satisfactory’ … demonstrate minimal progress, not achievement” and “others have been achieved on the surface, but fail to accomplish the overall purpose of the specific measurement.”

I just spoke with Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora, and he told me a SoundExchange exec just promised -- in front of Congress -- that SoundExchange will not enforce the collection of webcaster royalties under the new rates that would have driven many of them out of business.

As many know, TV stations are starting to put "Advertisements" at the bottoms of the shows, to advertise products or other items. TBS has been one of the worse with added sound to the ads, or taking up 2/3 of the screen. I was angry with them... but... they have gone to far.

Please take a careful look at the image below. What do you see? A guy dressed in a Darth Vader costume refilling a bottle by filtering it with a Brita water filter. Ok, he's there, refilling a container full of seawater. What is going on here?

The name Owsley became a noun that appears in the Oxford dictionary as English street slang for good acid. It is the most famous brand name in LSD history. Probably the first private individual to manufacture the psychedelic, "Owsley" is a folk hero of the counterculture.

You knew it was coming, every time the White House gets a batch of bad news for the administration it's time to announce a terrorist threat. This time for the whole summer. Does anyone believe these liars anymore?

Sitting before an empty chair with a name placard for Harriet Miers, former White House Counsel, a top Democrat on the House committee investigating the firing of 8 US Attorneys accused President George W. Bush of perpetrating a cover up.

WTF Sony, first you lower the price, then you just stop making 606 gig models?

Reuters photographer yesterday took a picture of President Bush’s speech welcoming journalists to the new White House briefing room

'With projects like Gobuntu and gNewSense aiming to provide a platform that is zealous about free software, the obvious question is “where can I run it?”. And right now, as far as laptops go, there are no good answers. Pretty much any laptop you can buy today needs some sort of non-free bits to make the most of its hardware...'

"He constantly interrupts me during my lessons trying to make valid points that are somewhere between "WTF?" and "OMG YOU ARE NOT USING TEH DEBIAN!"...

Police brutality backfires, cops attack man on soccer field and disgusted fans (and even a soccer player) retaliate

Ummmm ... This doesn't look good.

The White House scored a win Thursday on Capitol Hill after a moderate Senate Democrat broke with his party to restore funding for Vice President Dick Cheney’s office.

"This is a set of free foliage vectors I made in Illustrator. They are available in AI, EPS and SVG formats, so hopefully they will be useful to a good many of you. Add them to your toolbox and show us what you make (if you want) at the Bittbox user showcase on Flickr. I hope you like them, enjoy."

The recipe is 6 to 4 - 60% cardboard, 40% fatty meat

Konami has let out some more info and screens on the upcoming Silent Hill V, after the skimpy teaser trailer they showed at E3.

I'll take two.

So, you want to learn the Python programming language but can't find a concise and yet full-featured tutorial. This tutorial will attempt to teach you Python in 10 minutes.

The infamous anti-piracy organization Media Defender recently bought the P2P.net domain. Currently P2Pnet redirects to Google and at this point it is still unclear what their plans are for the domain. However, it is likely that they will use it for one of their pirate traps such as the fake video download service Miivi or..

Bush is the first president to go into billion dollar spending for his executive offices... I'm not exactly sure what sort of staplers cost x10 what previous presidents used... but It better have frickin lasers on it. (Historical Spending Chart)

In Houston, $225,000 will buy a three-bedroom house with a game room, den, in-ground pool and hot tub. In Manhattan, it will buy a parking space. No windows, no view. No walls. Spaces are in such demand that there are waiting lists of buyers. Eight people are hoping for the chance to buy one of five private parking spaces for $225,000.

AP breaks the news that "the relatively quick-and-easy answer to foreign oil dependence and automotive greenhouse gas emissions is circling the grounds every day at Orlando

Bizarre searches include: My English teacher lost my essay, my husband wears my clothes, cow seeds, husband doesn’t shower or wear deodorant...

Web sales pitches are getting better, thanks to new programs designed to sell you stuff you didn't even know you wanted, reports Business 2.0 Magazine.

If you didn't know this before, shame on you. If you suspected it to be true, here is why Christian Bale is a total, utter, and complete badass.

If we get hit again, it is going to be the fault of George Bush and everyone who continued to support this wasteful war while ignoring the Al Qaeda threat at home and abroad.

You know, we could understand a few months of Wii shortages, and perhaps we'd let Nintendo slip by the seven month mark with a mild slap on the wrist, but this recent announcement of shortages through the 2007 holidays is just plain annoying. "There is no guarantee that we are not going to have 'out-of-stocks' this holiday season,"..

The pictures include one showing what Polumbo said was her boyfriend apparently biting her breast through her shirt, another of Polumbo in a limousine wearing jeans with her legs spread in the air, and another of her in what appears to be a Halloween costume dress holding two small pumpkins up to her breasts.

The 10-time All-Star takes over. Too bad they didn't make him the Outfield coach to teach Mets players how to do his famous snap-catch.