In the battle against spam, every time the anti-spam industry comes up with a new way to beat junk mail, the spammers figure out another way to get past spam filters. Spam War demonstrates some of the new ways spam is finding its way to your inbox.
Blawg of the Day
Morningstar Multimedia, a Philadelphia firm providing positioning, strategy, and creative services to law firms, also publishes the Law Firm Marketing Blog, with updates at least once a week.
Google by the numbers
In 9,000 Google hits can’t be wrong – or can they?, the author discusses how news journalists often use Google results to make generalized statements about society. An example: a search for “naked men” brings 601,000 results from Google, while “naked women”yields 1,050,000 results. Ergo, the female body must be more desirable…
Happy Leap Day
Learn why we have an extra day in February, every four years.
Remember long passwords — or throw them away entirely?
When we talk about choosing the right password, some standard rules apply — it should be at least 8 characters in length, should include both letters and numbers, and the letters should be both lower and upper case (there are other rules, but these are the basics). The problem is, how do you remember such…
Overdose on Google Information
Wired has a huge report on Googlemania — the upcoming IPO, threats from other search engines, and much, much more. Give it a read.
MyDoom just keeps rollin’ along…
The latest variant of the MyDoom virus, MyDoom.F, has a new twist: it actively deletes documents from your computer, including .jpg (image), .doc (Microsoft Word), and .xls (Microsoft Excel) files.
80 years of Time, all online
Hewlett-Packard is teaming with Time Magazine to digitize its complete 80-year archive. When the collection goes live in May, you’ll have access to every issue of the publication.
News and commentary
Check out Memeorandum, a site that aggregates two different things: news headlines, and right below them, weblog entries discussing those particular news stories. Nifty.
NetSky on the loose
Watch out for the new NetSky.B e-mail worm. It uses its own e-mail engine to send copies of itself to addresses it finds on infected computers. Make sure your virus definitions have been updated.
