A note to those of you who use Wordpress and happen to use more than one space after each sentence: something in the update (2.9.1) seems to cause an error with this, and instead of showing a space, appears to display one of those "unknown character" images. Changing the text encoding from UTF-8 to ASCII seems to fix this for now.
Oh, and happy new year, and new decade!
I never would have thought it, but spam can be oddly... poetic. The following lines were taken from a block of spam text one one of my weblogs. Each line is a verbatim string of text that has not been edited or reordered in any way - all I did was select interesting pieces and put them together, line by line, in poem form. The result, as you can see, is more than a bit freeform, and yet somehow compelling in a certain way.
Bruises showed lose his diving for the firewater
the next girl you duress has handsome living
one they grieving for out instead bones cracked
because children its icy through with the tile
how will chief declaimed her hands like twisted
what just missing this least abruptly surrounded
not come the tangler make sound very firmly
and pretty black held assumed certain respects
vine with and wait anywhere within she paced
purely political laughed again
raided your shall become woven into
quiltlike floor magical creatures the defendant kicked into
are you forever bad man personal pride
watch had piranhas charged package under realized
teeth and terrifying dream she spoke the north
and angels the circuit personal business and arrows
tank the picture hillocks.
...and it sure is crunchy.
As I'm sure you probably know, the main idlecircuits.com weblog has come and gone in many different iterations, with one constant throughout: the fact that it doesn't usually get updated all that often. And so, in that vein, I eventually realized that there wasn't any really compelling reason to keep on updating and patching a full-blown web application for something that gets updated so infrequently. As a result, this weblog is now based simply on a CSS template. What this means is that there is no real facility for comments (one might arrive in the future, but who knows), and no RSS feed, which probably wasn't that useful given the intervals between updates. Other than that, it's pretty much the same.
Beyond that, the weblog is pretty much a catchall for random things I decide to post, as well as updates and announcements for idlecircuits.com. However, there are probably more interesting sites on here, so check out the link in the sidebar to see everything else that's on offer.