Links of the Week (2008/28)

  • German: Der Wissenschaft verpflichtet (Committed to science) – Speech at the German society for internal medicine’s congress in 1997 about scientific medicine and paramedicine. Worth reading if you speak German, but the background color should be forbidden1… (via EsoBlog).
  • PZ Myers about the questionable reactions on “holding a consecrated wafer hostage” – and reactions from readers.
  • 50 remarkable nature wallpapers (via Blogwiese)
  1. or changed, be it with Firebug or by copying the text into an editor []

Digital sand art

…or just something for playing around for a while… Seen first at Geht mal gar nicht!, then at Blogwiese, and I thought, well, I’ll create some “art” myself with this virtual sand that you can let drop down in different colors at thisissand.com.

These were (after a first test) the results (click for large view):

thisissand 1 thisissand 2 thisissand 3

Added 4:27pm:
thisissand 4
(Looks somewhat better in that small picture.)

In their gallery, you can see more (and better) “paintings” (next to a lot of trivial ones)…

Stupid comment spammers

Some spammers really are stupid. All spammers are stupid, but some especially. So tonight a filipino wrote a total of nine spam comments with meaningless short sentences on a single post within 26 minutes – on the then current one about the domain trading spammer. (Unfortunately Akismet let all but the last one pass – probably was quite new. By the way, I left them (without link) for reference, sort of, because I want to make fun of them here.)

And unfitting comments they were!

for the long i hope i will become effective and useful to others.

So for instance for people who publish small ads for captcha entry?

I need someone to help me with simple captcha entry work. You’ll login to specified site using credentials I provide, and enter captcha’s on weblinks I provide. Very simple. At present I can pay 2.5 cents per entry. I’ll pay by paypal. I need to start ASAP! Mail me your messenger id (yahoo or msn) and your time zone(EST, PST, etc).

For someone with the same mail address replied there:

Im interested to work with you . My YM ID is alvinnobleza. I promise to be an asset to your company.

And now he apparently tries to be an asset for a badly translated, somehow dubious music site…

oh it nice to belong to someone else when you feel their importance that they give to you.

Ah, you already belong to that company. Well, I wouldn’t like that…

the idea is to generate a fund to create a better business into the future.

A fund for comment spammers or their employers? God forbid!1

have you ever heard that just click your mouse and read this page and you will know the importance of it.

It can be done without a mouse, too. Any notebook user will confirm that. But what do you spammers know, anyway…

i think it serve other people a lesson to share their thoughts and feelings.

it is good to know to other people the importance of site because it adds idea to other people that read this.

And did you really lern something here?

its better to have one of this know all the important topics to it.

Would be even better if one could understand that sentence, wouldn’t it?

a wonderful page i read some comments but i appreciate what they said.

Read – and still like them? Phew, lucky me!

download and try this to see the difference to other web that you`ll visit.

What, another web? Only accessible with a ominous download? I think I’ll pass…

:dunce:

  1. I know this exclamation will never work, but probably nothing will really help against spammers, anyway. Unfortunately. []

8:3:1

Billiards I just came back from playing pool billiards (with two others; the loser of a game paused for the next game) – and I won 8:3:1!

:tanz: :tanz: :tanz:

Just wanted to mention it briefly to express my joy. :mrgreen: If only it would work that well every time…