Thinking Chaos, Thinking Fences

August 7, 2003

Spam Poetry I like found poetry. In fact, it's the only kind of poetry I wr...assemble. Just because it's fun. For me, at least. I created the following poems from the titles of a few hundred emails in my spam folder: Hey why haven't you ever hit it big mean mom this is what you need this is what you need this is what you need be more fullfilled see my newest movie become an addict shine a light on your emergency and make women scream! Why worry? I know all about you this hot offer girls girls and more girls young as they cum looking for more booty looking for a good man we sell anti-depressants all you can handle its cheaper and the exact same thing It's hardly Wordsworth, but what are you going to do? This is going to play havoc with my search results, I just know it. 5:00:31 PM      Trackback []    Internet The Arts

Random Image Googlosity The Random Personal Picture Finder is a creative little Google hack. It searches Google for file names used by common digital photography equipment. It applies a random number to the file name's preface, and displays the Google results. It's both fascinating and mundane. Predictably, there are a lot of dull photos of people. Still one, does find some bizarre photos very quickly (links go to Google context results): These folks like to dress up. How about this drill presser. Crazy Germans. Some charming skating dresses. All kind of lame, in truth. Its serendipity reminded me of Mic in Track. 4:45:33 PM      Trackback []    Internet

Share Your Story A couple of years ago, my friend Sam started Echo Memoirs. It's a unique idea, and I think it's pretty nifty. It's related (I think) to the blogosphere explosion of the past few years. They produce high-end (like, starting at CAN $850 high-end) memoir books. The most common varieties are pet books, wedding books and personal life stories. I recently suggested she also do car books. Many people love their cars as they do their children and pets, after all. The appeal is all about archiving  your own life and experiences. Plus, they're gorgeous, well-designed, hand-bound books. I've done some editing and proofreading work for her, and it's kind of fascinating to read (and edit) peoples' life stories. Yes, I'm a dosser. With her permission, I lifted her site design for my site. .  8:32:56 AM      Trackback []    Books The Arts

Smart Mobs I recently created a posting over at Vancouver Webloggers about flash mobs: Most of you have probably heard of the meme that is the flash mob. In short, these are large groups of people assembled via the Internet. They form, do something (typically zany) and disperse in a very short time. They started in New York, but there was recently one in Toronto. Is it time Vancouver had one? It seems very Lotus Land to me. There's been an interesting discussion about starting one, and a reference to a (lame sounding--they didn't quite get the zaniness) mob that apparently occurred a couple of days ago. As a bonus, there's also talk about whether or people show potential employers their personal Web sites. It features this sound advice from Hasan: 'work and paki-ass don't mix'. 8:26:51 AM      Trackback []    Internet Vancouver