Dripmail

So I'm getting hammered by the latest whatever ms-worm-virus-shit thing.

I finally decided (after averaging a few hundred a day for over a week)
that I do not ever want any email with executable attachments.

And since I hate procmail's needlessly moronic syntax, I got help from:

[ http://www.neilgunton.com/blocking_spam_viruses/#procmail ]

And then threw this into my .procmailrc

:0
* < 256000
* ! ^Content-Type: text/plain
{
:0B
* ^(Content-(Type|Disposition):.*|[ ]*(file)?)name=("[^"]*|[^
]*)\.(
bat|cmd|com|exe|js|pif|scr)
mail/viralshit
}

This puts it all into the viralshit folder on the server, rather than
leaving it in my INBOX which is downloaded. The page advocates just
throwing it straight into /dev/null, but I'm always reluctant to do that.
But after checking the folder (over 500 from the last 3 days) I'm starting
to think it may just be the right thing to do.

I fucking hate email now. It's becoming far more fucking trouble than it's
worth.

Edwards? What an uninspired pick.

Lame.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n08/fmk3/palutena/index.html

Palutena no Kagame is going to be released as part of the Famicom classics
series in Japan. Which means there may actually be a release of Kid Icarus
for the GBA in the US!!!!!!

!!!!!!!

... back on cartoon network's adult swim again. highly recommended.

http://www.waxy.org/archive/2004/07/09/jaleco_b.shtml

"For their newest Gameboy Advance game, Jaleco Entertainment quietly
borrowed the source code for an open-source Nintendo emulator. While the
emulation community was outraged, the emulator's programmer felt a bit
differently."

If Klara and I had a baby, and that baby was a research project headed by
Bruch Schatz, it would be BeeSpace.



-----Original Message-----
From: Klara Y. Kim [mailto:klarakim@[xxx]
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 4:57 PM
To: adam@[xxx]
Subject: Fwd: news

bees and library science intersect



-----Original Message-----
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:00:37 -0500
To: f: ;
From: Gene Robinson <generobi@[xxx]
Subject: news


Delighted to inform you that we were notified by NSF that we will be
awarded a 5-year, $5M grant to build BeeSpace.

BeeSpace aims to build new biological databases, informatics and text
mining tools to use the bee genome sequence and brain gene expression
information as centerpieces of a new approach to integrative biology to
gain a deeper understanding of the relationships between genes, brain, and
social behavior. The three components will be: 1) individual brain gene
expression profiles for all honey bee social behaviors (Illinois); 2) in
situ analysis for a selected set of several hundred genes (Wake Forest);
and 3) a new interactive knowledge acquisition environment that has some of
the components of FlyBase and some unique components that reflect the
imperative to integrate across genes, brain and behavior (Illinois). There
will also be an education and outreach component (both sites).

Bruce Schatz, Graduate College of Library and Information Science, is the
PI, and the team includes Susan, Chip Bruce (education) Sandra Rodriguez
and ChengXiang Zhai.

http://nytimes.com/robots.txt

This is a huge change. I guess they got tired of not showing up in any
legitimate search indexes. I should... do something with this.


# robots.txt, www.nytimes.com 7/15/2004
#
User-agent: *
Disallow: /pages/college
Disallow: /college
Disallow: /library
Allow: /pages/
Allow: /2003/
Allow: /2004/
Allow: /2005/
Allow: /top/
Allow: /services/xml/
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:

are we back yet?

http://archive.scripting.com/2004/07/26#When:5:01:42PM

"Well, the convention has started. It's boring beyond belief. It can only
get better. Everyone on the floor is mulling around, chatting. Can't
understand what the speakers are saying. It sounds like this: blah blah
blah John Kerry blah blah Kerry Edwards blah blah values values values
blah blah John Kerry blah blah blah standing at a crossroads blah blah.
There's a din in the room. I had to go get a Dunkin Donuts iced coffee to
stay away. Zzzzz. Blah blah K-E-R-R-Y blah blah Kerry Edwards and you.
Thank you very much."

UPDATE DAMMIT

http://www.thejunkbox.com/

wren lanier is running a weblog again. a weblog in the best, old sense of
the word. [yay]

dakotasmith: you're never there

Auto response from adammathes: You are away from my computer right now.

dakotasmith: why don't you just sign off
dakotasmith: i mean, come on
dakotasmith: like, it'd be one thing if you wrote a program that signed on
as you in away mode and posted everything people say to you when you are
away to a website
dakotasmith: but, this is just stupid


Also, that's a really good idea.

http://sardius.1up.com/

"Gah, this whole site is...Jesus. Fuck this. Fuck all of this. Why do so
many cool people have accounts here? It's totally misleading, because not
a one of them will tell you how much of a dicklicking clown this
half-assed blog community bullshit is. Points? Fuck you. I can only add
ONE game at a time to my collection list? That's great, I have hundreds,
and expecting me to add them all individually is retarded as shit.
Everything on this site is stupid and broken, and I hate it I hate it I
hate it and it pisses me off that nothing works and just don't even look
at me right now, because I swear to GOD I'll fucking kill you for reals if
you do.

Damn. DAMN. WHAT the hell, people. What the hell.
07/28/2004 03:05 AM EDT"

Holy shit Kerry's speech is bad.

And we're not even 10 minutes into it.

And I *want* to vote for him.

Seriously.

What the fuck Democrats.


-adam

I guess it's slightly better - he seems more confident talking about how
we shouldn't go to war for no reason. Well, yeah, no shit. I'm with you
Kerry, but, ummm, where were you when you voted to authorize this bullshit
war?

I mean, GO DEMS!!

[ http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/07/msg01193.html ]

Although I generally try to avoid open source free software licensing
bullshit (I just use a BSD/MIT style style for everything I can) but
Debian's take on the issues (still!) with Creative Commons licenses is
good reading. They're just so much fucking bullshit baggage with Lessig's
little "experiment" with intellectual property waivers that I can't ever
see myself using them. I'd rather be unambiguously open (BSD/MIT) or
unambiguously closed and simply have people ASK me what they can do with
my work before they do it.