Spam blog comments are hilarious to me because of the ridiculously predictable syntactic patterns they fall into. They pretty much all begin with a compliment on your blog so generic that it could be said about any website followed by links to porn/herbal supplement/penis enlargement/loan consolidation/mortgage sites. And when I say links, I mean lots [...]
Many nights, surfing (ahem, I mean, ah, researching) on-line, I want to look at a website I found earlier — maybe hours, days, or months earlier. I look through my Bookmarks and can’t find the link I know I saved. But the next day, back at the office, I find the Bookmark on my computer [...]
Phillip Barron The Herald Sun DURHAM — Cafeteria conversation at work on January 31st revolved around the predicted ice storm. Bread, milk, and bottled water would be cleared off grocery store shelves by the time we left work that evening we all joked. We also guessed that the next day’s news would be littered with [...]