Heh. I’ve already admitted many times to having looked at spam just to see how inane the advertised “offers” actually were.

Today, I got a spam offering to add e-commerce functionality to my site. All fine and dandy, except that first of all, I don’t really have anything to sell, and second, even if I did, I wouldn’t exactly want to partner with someone having the domain “increaseyoubuisnesstoday12345.com”, considering the subject of one major section of my site.

A college student in New York has extended the idea of “magnetic poetry” by painting words onto cows and letting them roam. Really. Sounds like something straight out of a satirical newspaper, and yet you just can’t make this stuff up…

From the latest search request logs: INTP AND SOCIAL AND INCOMPETENT (capitalization theirs, not mine). Yeah, my personality type isn’t exactly known for being socially inept savvy, I’ll admit… (How did I not notice this slight mental slip until 22 December? Duh.)

As if my selection of links on bad baby names back in February wasn’t enough to fill you up, here’s yet another collection of unusual names, with some appropriately sarcastic commentary, to whet your appetite.

From the ever-amusing Need To Know (OK, I admit it, my sense of humour is strangely British for an American), comes this amusing Google search for products with rather faulty “qaulity assurance”.

Reminiscent of my “acccurate” thermometer from some time back, I must admit…

Yet another bizarre search request culled from the server logs: i detest driving intuitive automobiles

To which I reply: The non-intuitive ones are better?

Speaking of search requests, here’s one from AltaVista that I can’t understand for the life of me: conveyances OR proofreader OR snatching OR familiarness OR hetman

Guess which word it was that led to zone38. 😉

Hah. According to my server logs, someone stumbled across zone38 yesterday by searching on Google for INTP bad drivers. Yes, it’s true; though we rational personality types are quite good at the analytical thinking that driving requires, that whole observation thing almost unfailingly throws us off…

“All Your Base” sighting #2101: on an out-of-order sign on a vending machine in one of Mercer University’s dorms. Take off every soda! For great justice!

Mercer University‘s programming team, as I’ve mentioned before, is known as the Binary Bears. By some uncanny coincidence, Brøderbund‘s ClickArt image collection contains a photo in which two teddy bears have been posed at a computer desk.

The perfect Photoshopping opportunity, you say? I agree entirely.