To demonstrate this spammer’s stupidity, I only need to quote two headers out of the entire message:

Subject: Medicines before Valentine Day !!!
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:33:52 +0100

Well, I suppose you will get them before Valentine’s Day of 2007…

Heh, this is amusing. The New York Times, in a little opinion feature on Dance Dance Revolution in schools, quoted my blog post from a couple weeks ago in which I mused that it was far more fun than being hit by volleyballs.

I feel… famous or something. ^_^

…in this case, from one of the apartment buildings at UGA:

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I imagine the resident manger must be useful for the veterinary school just down the road…

Interestingly, ‘manager’ was spelled correctly on the other side of the sign. Go figure, eh?

And oh, yes, this also serves as an example of the sign typography I had mentioned back in December.

I love when typos go unnoticed. Well, in this case, it actually did get noticed and listed in an errata page, but by then it was too late…

Anyway, from section 4 of RFC 2616, the official documentation for version 1.1 of the HTTP protocol:

If the message uses the media type “multipart/byteranges”, and the ransfer-length is not otherwise specified, then this self- elimiting media type defines the transfer-length. This media type UST NOT be used unless the sender knows that the recipient can arse it; the presence in a request of a Range header with ultiple byte- range specifiers from a 1.1 client implies that the lient can parse multipart/byteranges responses.

Seems like a few characters got dropped in transmission somehow! I particularly like the part about whether “the recipient can arse it.”

Ah, the interesting things one finds while working on projects for networking class…

I just discovered a Japanese candy at the local anime store that I’m probably going to be consuming far too much of during my time here: Coffee Beat. It’s like a mocha-flavored version of M&Ms— and if you know me, you know how much I love mocha…

Ah, Japan, you tempt us with far too many addictive things. 🙂

Wow. If only Dance Dance Revolution had been invented sooner… well, I might have actually enjoyed gym class! In the latest demonstration of this trend, Konami has teamed up with the West Virginia board of education to feature DDR as part of the state’s PE classes.

So much more enjoyable than being hit in the eye by a wayward volleyball (yes, yet another of the many reasons I can associate with Osaka from Azumanga Daioh…). Or trying to run a mile when in the midst of an asthma attack. And don’t even get me started on pull-ups… I could never accomplish those. :-p

(via BoingBoing)

…places with extremely low-resolution photos.

Yep, that big blur there is none other than the University of Georgia’s Sanford Stadium.

Interestingly, Mercer University has quite a bit clearer resolution… go figure. (And the schools in Atlanta are a whole lot clearer, but that’s pretty much a given…)

Oh my. Bill Amend of “FoxTrot” fame really is a nerd.

Yesterday’s comic had Jason eating a bowl of Alpha-Bytes— like Alpha-Bits, but in binary, naturally.

But what’s even funnier is that the cereal actually spells something. Those are the ASCII codes for “YOUNERD”.

I guess I am a nerd, since I went through the trouble of actually checking the ASCII values… though admittedly, Perl’s pack function did make it a bit less painful… :-p

Edited to add: Of course, this is old news to those of you who regularly read Digg, which I had forgotten to check for several days. Great minds think alike, I guess…

Ooh. As if all the news of Intel-based iMacs and MacBooks weren’t enough Apple-related news for today, Google has officially released the Mac version of Google Earth. For what it’s worth, Finder claims it’s only a PowerPC binary, not a universal one; no word yet on whether it’s emulated properly under Rosetta on the new machines…

Edited to add: ‘chloralone’ confirms, in the comments to the corresponding thread on my LJ, that it does indeed run “very fast” under Rosetta. Nice.

I’m essentially chained to my apartment for 5/6 of this upcoming holiday (Martin Luther King Day) weekend.

Only the very limited weekend city buses are running on Saturday— once an hour, with the last bus arriving at my apartment at about 6:30.

And no buses whatsoever are running on Sunday or Monday. No campus buses; no city buses; nothing.

This, of course, wouldn’t be so bad if there were anything in reasonable walking distance of my apartment. There are the restaurants and stores of Five Points about a mile away… on a road with no sidewalks. I guess I could try braving walking on the shoulder of the road… And the north side of campus is about 2 miles away.

I really need to learn to ride a bike. Or something.