March 24, 2000

So I just got a bizarre e-mail from a "Yustas Kotz-Gottlieb." Has anyone ever got one? I'll post the entire text as a comment. It appears to be an atrocious, perhaps Mad Lib-generated essay on an imaginary painting. Based on an AltaVista search for "Jaisini," I've concluded that this person posts the essay (and others) on random guestbooks and e-mails it to random people (like me). This is the closest I can find to a cogent explanation, but I'm still bumfuzzled as to the point. Fake essays as performance art? It's like McSweeney's, as guest-edited by Kafka.
posted by luke at 4:00 PM PST - 2 comments

What with HTML mail

What with HTML mail having the ability to do evil things to you, it was beginning to look like the "Good Times" virus wasn't so much of a hoax after all. But now, it turns out you can get something a lot worse in your email.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 3:34 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Maybe I should learn VB or whatever's required to make a browser widget that blinks whenever I'm at a site owned by AOL/TimeWarner. There are tons of them, and I bet the thing would be blinking all the time, what with all the wholly owned subsidiaries of this and that. Of course, it would be built on an open architecture, so we could add Microsoft (where's their list?), and anyone else that needs watching.
posted by endquote at 3:09 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Call me Ishmael.

Call me Ishmael. Now all I need is a group of blind followers.
posted by alana at 1:09 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Tell me: what websurfing kid is going to go to Visa's site to find this art contest?
posted by jason at 9:38 AM PST - 2 comments

It's a chopper, baby.
posted by veruca at 9:05 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Metafilter is going down at 12 noon, PST (about 3 hours from now), and should be back up around 8pm. I just signed up this machine at TZO.com, so this site should be reachable at http://metafilter.tzo.com/ once I get it back up. TZO is actually a cool service, I've been running it for almost a year on my home cable modem, which changes IP addresses once a month or so (but thanks to TZO, I can always find it).
posted by mathowie at 8:57 AM PST - 1 comments

Happy Easter!
posted by veruca at 8:30 AM PST - 2 comments

I make this hompage as business card he said...

I make this hompage as business card he said...

The more I look at it, the more I'm puzzled...

Is this er... site...
a) a very clumsy but very sincere homepage, made by someone whos has a lot to learn or...
b) a very well-done, veru tongue in cheek fake website made by someone who clearly had a lot of fun polishing this extreme pastiche...
Anyway, expect a lot of pop-up windows and have one of these airline vomit bag handy in case of a sudden sea sickness
posted by Baud at 3:20 AM PST - 6 comments


They'll auction almost anything on the web nowadays...

They'll auction almost anything on the web nowadays...
posted by Markb at 1:47 AM PST - 1 comments

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