Boy, I seem to be talking about spamming and scamming a lot lately. You’d think I was a paranoid bastard if you didn’t know me. But this one is FO REAL. On my 18th birthday I received a Gillette razor in the mail courtesy of the United States Army †. I guess they were tryingContinue reading “Mo Razors Scam”
Category Archives: Politics
Weblogs and political influence
I just received a call for papers for a conference entitled Politics and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (PISTA ’03) which is hosted, not ironically with the International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies in Orlando Florida this fall. I think there is a fascinating paper on weblogs and the microcontent influence on politics.Continue reading “Weblogs and political influence”
Small world politics
CNN has “discovered” that US Senator Fred Thompson is the Kevin Bacon of Washington. I’m taken back by the number of celebrities that testify before congress, especially those that are fictional or animals (kermit, benji, et al.) And we take our government seriously?