Earlier this week, I posted a rant about three near-identical spam messages I’d received from spock.com. It turns out that they (apparently) weren’t spam at all, but that the site was contacting me on behalf of someone (as yet unknown) who had my addresses listed as part of their contacts. The messages were supposed to [...]
Archive of entries posted on 19th June 2008
“Water Ice Found on Mars”
Yes, the Phoenix lander has found water ice! With water-ice proven to exist on Mars, it becomes a lot more likely that life, of some familiar sort, could be there too. It also means that human habitation of Mars could be viable (a lack of water would make a Mars colony prohibitively expensive). No wonder [...]
Russia Becoming Americanized!
Here’s the proof — a Russian lady turned down an offer of compensation, saying that she’d sue “for damages and compensation for moral suffering” instead. If that isn’t a totally American thing to say, I don’t know what would be.
Snail Mail — really!
If you’re a true Internet geek, you probably know about RFC 1149, the “Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers.” Yes, you read that right — it’s a way to transmit information, via Internet protocols, by homing pigeons. It was released on April first, 1990. Well, after eighteen years, it looks like [...]