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Tuesday, September 23, 2003
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How to find out how often people are googling you: "I figured out accidentally a neat trick to find out how often people are searching on your name or seeing pages on which your name is prominent in some fashion. Buy a set of Google AdWords with your name. I composed a goofy ad for my name." [Boing Boing Blog]
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Where Is Spam When You Want It? "I need to attract spam to an e-mail address for a research survey I am conducting. I have submitted a few articles to a handful of Usenet groups, and I have signed up to some general mailing lists but so far I have nothing to show for it. How come by personal account gets 100+ spam each day yet when I try to find it I get nothing? Where should I post my address so that it attracts spam?" [Slashdot]
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Total Information Awareness, For One: "I decided to create a personal TIA program to track my own electronic movements... and to document every single electronically-recorded transaction I've made." [Slashdot]
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Kissed by a butterfly: "I was kissed by a butterfly today. I was sitting in a beer garden with Horst, to enjoy what must have been one of the last truly warm late summer days, when suddenly a butterfly flew past, landed for split second on my arm, then flew off again. It was a truly elevating, almost poetic experience." [The Aardvark Speaks] I had a similar experience this summer, while I was taking photos of European peacocks and some other butterflies. The first time it was so suprising I didn't much have time for thinking, and the butterfly flew away after "kissing" my hand. The same happened a second time, and I tried to transfer my camera from the hand the butterfly was sitting on to take a photo of the event. Unfortunately, the butterfly flew away, and I was not able to make the event repeat again. Here is one of the butterfly pictures:
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