send email to dripmail at this domain name (why?)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 14:49:44 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Ben Cohen, the US Budget, and Oreo cookies
It's a lot easier to say "just move these Oreas" than "I want to cut
Defense spending by 12.5% and shift it to discretionary social spending."
Still though, I'd really like to see elected official give presentation
like this. On C-Span. With cookies!
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 17:00:29 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Study: Blogging still infrequent (only a few MILLION)
"From other studies, around 180 million American adults use the Internet
(two-thirds of the total population). So even at 2 percent, Pew's poll
indicates that there are 3.6 million webloggers and diarists writing for
an audience of around 20 million. How does AP receive this news?"
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 19:05:59 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: in class...
dripmail yet, but I think it's an even more dramatic adam to the world
ratio of contribution.
fuck community.
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 19:54:41 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: just once...
Mondays so I'd have EXCITING READING MATERIAL during class.
Your disappointed pal,
-adam
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 19:54:07 -0600
From: "Klara Y. Kim" <klarakim@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: this isn't that entertaining.
tiny Klara: so ... God made everything?
Mrs. Smith: yes, He did.
tiny Klara: ... even the amoebas?
Mrs. Smith: yes, even the amoebas.
she looked so sternly at me that i was frightened of her. and she probably thought i was a small heathen.
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 22:31:26 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: An Open Letter To Tucker Carlson
[ http://www.sleepygirl.org/sg/archives/000342.html ]
Dear Tucker Carlson,
I want to bling you in the blinging bling. I want to bling you so hard it
makes my bling hurt. I want to bling all the republican rhetoric out of
you, and leave you blinging for more. I want your eyes to well up with
blings as I run my fingers through your hair and whisper dreams of
socialized health care and a multi-lingual society in your ear. It'll be
alright, my little right-wing lover, it will be beautiful.
Love,
Heather Schmidt
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:58:00 -0600 (CST)
From: Ben Brown <ben@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: HOTTTTT
![http://benbrown.com/incoming/strippingdakota.gif">](http://benbrown.com/incoming/strippingdakota.gif">){kind=link}
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:05:29 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Why Aunt Tillie Can't Print
Linux CUPS vs the "easier" OS X Printing dialogue - with exciting Flash
movie narrated by Jon Udell.
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:33:19 -0600 (CST)
From: Ben Brown <ben@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: your parsing sucks
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:08:44 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: Ben Brown <ben@[xxx]
CC: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Re: your parsing sucks
"plain text only, please"
Is an IMG TAG plain text? Is it? No! It is presentation HTML non-plain
tainted characters! Damnit.
Also, Dakota looks so... angry there. Defiant? It's awesome.
(You should've just put the image in discuss - I'm pretty sure that lets
you put any old shit in there and just hopes you don't break the page too
badly.)
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Ben Brown wrote:
>
>
> http://benbrown.com/incoming/strippingdakota.gif
>
>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:57:41 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: fuck
Sad news came today for fans of the 1993 PC game Sam & Max Hit the Road.
LucasArts has canceled its PC sequel, Sam & Max Freelance Police, only a
few months before its planned spring 2004 release.
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:18:14 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: The American People
"The American People. You hear an awful lot about them. Politicans,
especially, are experts: they know what we want, need, feel, think,
deserve, demand. So we thought we.d start keeping track of who.s claiming
to speak for us, the American People. Who speaks for you?
Quotes are automatically selected from all election-related wire service
stories available through Yahoo."
A good weekend hack would be to make a little set of scripts that did this
sort of thing in a more customizable manner. Specify a few search terms,
list a few RSS feeds to spider, and then spit out... stuff.
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 20:44:42 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: more on the Sam & Max cancellation
http://www.mixnmojo.com/php/news/showfile.php?id=1535&category=advnews
Although you have to sort of expect somebody in his position to say the
game was going well, the subtext that isn't really in this message is that
apparently the other cancelled adventure games from Lucasarts, like Full
Throttle, weren't really looking that good. (At least, that's what
TheRedEye said, and he really is the all knowing expert when it comes to ,
especially bad games, and especially bad games that never actually
got released.)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 19:01:25 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: log(n) time
Did you know that they're a lot faster than just looking through a whole
list in order?!! WOW
(I think maybe Casey and other cs people will laugh here. Maybe.)
-adam
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 19:08:49 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: ok... what?
systems (and BST's are) because... hash tables can have "collisions."
And that's "bad."
Oi.
-adam
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 14:44:56 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Scott Rosenberg doesn't know what an adverb is
Bono: This is really, really fucking brilliant.
Solomon of the FCC: The performer used the word as an adjective or
expletive to emphasize exclamation.
WSJ: Technically, Bono's expletive was used as an adverb, modifying the
adjective "brilliant.
Rosenberg: No, no, no. Solomon was right, and the reporter here, who butts
in with a supercilious parenthesis to correct Solomon, has made a fool of
herself.
7 Comments correcting him, but he hasn't responded to any of them.
I guess a basic understanding of the parts of speech, like knowing that
the participle form of a verb can be used as an adverb to modify an
adjective, isn't necessary to be an editor at Salon.
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 18:26:30 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: todo@[xxx]
CC: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: to do list (this week and spring break, maybe)
use TEI.
1. Design a subset of TEI (TEI-Lite+some extensions) for blog/journal entries
2. Generate Daily/blueblog/webloglog/whatever as examples
3. find standard-ish MT, LJ, and Blogger XML
4. write XSLT to translate into TEI-JournalBlogWhatever
5. Use TEI->FOP XSLT conversion for PDF generation as example of why this
might actually be useful
6. ...
<strike>7. PROFIT!</strike>
-adam
ps - i have a presentation on TEI [http://www.tei-c.org] tomorrow in
Document Modeling
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 18:35:36 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: oops
wrong.)
OH THE HORROR.
--adam
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 23:57:54 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: sylloge: for all your question answering needs
Stewart straddles that line between funny and mean so well. (He gets
random people im'ing him with question since he happens to be the first
google search result for "IM question answerer.")
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:21:13 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Screenscraping comics
Interesting MeFi thread on a piece of shareware that scrapes comics from
websites. Mostly interesting since a number of actual "popular" webcomics
post their thoughts about it, and the thread was posted by the author of
wigu [ http://www.wigu.com ]
If I were to post, which I of course wouldn't because, you know, it's
Metafilter, I would suggest that
a. as the copyright holders of their comics, they are entitled both
legally and, in my view ethically, to ask the creator of any software that
scrapes their site to stop if it bothers them.
b. any site scraper *should* be obeying robots.txt - and even if it
doesn't, it can likely be stopped by using apache's .htaccess or similar
c. while it's likely impossible to completely stop people from scraping
images from a site, you can at least make it more difficult (as Hard from
Sexylosers has)
d. (the important thing) - consider offering an alternative. create an
RSS/Atom/Whatever feed of your strips that has advertisements or context
or links to merchandise or whatever you want.
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:48:42 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Friendster really *is* run by an ass
"Everyone that met Jonathon Abrams, the creator of Friendster, used the
word 'ass' somewhere in the sentence used to describe him. I heard it
several times during the week as I seemed to be missing him at various
functions. When I finally saw his keynote and panel, he defintely lived up
to the reputation. And it wasn't even the amusing, self-effacing kind of
asshole I can appreciate and enjoy. It was just plain asshole."
It's funny, because I've been describing him that way just based on
interviews and articles I've read, and I was TOTALLY RIGHT. (Haven't
talked to Ben about the "getting it on-line" panel he was on with Abrams
yet or if he used any of my "questions" for him.)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:48:37 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: yesterday's Daily Show
book and government excess... ]
John Stossel: Get rid of the commerce department, the educaiton
department...
Jon Stewart: You would get rid of all these department? So, wait a minute,
without regulartion, we were run by robber barons, you know, this whole
idea that privatization is the answer, I mean, it's the answer for the
Vanderbilts and the Morgans, I'm not so sure it's the answer for
everybody. Why would corporate interests be more efficient than
government?
Stossel: That's why I wrote "Give Me a Break." Because I learned
after bashing business for 20 years, the market regulates itself really
well. The robber barons were not really robber barons. The ruthless competition
means the good companies that make money have to give us what we want.
Stewart: So there was no reason for the antitrust laws? The monopolies
didn't actually exist?
Stossel: There was very little reason. Rockefeller lowered the price
of oil. He... saved the whales.
Stewart: But... King George also helped out with the tea prices. [ laughs
] I was with you up until that point. I mean, the idea that
corporate interests somehow regulates itself. I mean, the markets are
regulated as it is.
Stossel: But competition regulates the market. You have to do a good
job here or you'll lose viewers.
Jon Stewart: I'm on Comedy Central, I don't have to do shit. [ laughs ]
You do, you're on network, that's a whole other game.
Stossel: Bill Gates got rich giving us software we wanted. [at this point
I stopped laughing and realized John Stossel was actually completely
insane] Companies get rich giving us better cars, better supermarkets. Cheaters
don't get away with much. I was having trouble finding true national scams
to do on 20/20. There are some Enrons but they're the exception.
Jon Stewart: The exception?
John Stossell: Yeah! How many Enron Worldcoms, it's a ten trillion dollar
economy how often does that happen?
Jon Stewart: It looks like all the time. [ laughs ]
Stossell: It doesn't.
Stewart: It doesn't. [ happy nice closing stuff ]
It's funny because I'm not a journalist, and I could probably get half a
dozen people off the record to say that the sort of accounting scandals at
Enron are "rampant" throughout the economy. Apparently in 20 fucking years
on ABC John Stossel couldn't find a way to report on that and instead
decided to focus on the much easier target of government waste.
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:48:07 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: I didn't check if Abrams was on Orkut because he's a dick, but
Orkut's Friendster profile. (No, really.)
Member Since Aug 2003
Last Login 02/22/2004
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:51:22 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: follow-up
Joining the community "paradoxes" was a nice touch.
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:37:24 -0800
From: Josh Santangelo <josh@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: [Fwd: updated showComments bookmarklet]
http://www.endquote.com/content/597/
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: updated showComments bookmarklet
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:14:32 +0000
From: Adam Collard <adam@[xxx]
To: josh@[xxx]
Josh,
I have updated your showComments bookmarklet to work in Mozilla Firefox
0.8 and attached it to this e-mail. There's a quick changelog at the top
of the file describing the changes I made, which were minor. With your
consent, I'd like to suggest that this or something similar be included
in Chris Pederick's Webdeveloper extension for Mozilla
(http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/)
Adam Collard
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:19:58 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Voter Virgin
Unfortunately, Voter Virgin is actually peer pressure to *get* people to
vote in 2004.
http://www.votervirgin.com/about/mission/
"VoterVirgin is dedicated to creating a culture of fun to inspire
first-time voter participation. By providing an exciting, economical
marketing tool and giving people a reason to smile, we hope to assist
those organizations already working to register voters . and hopefully
help new registration drives to bloom."
I really want someone (who isn't me) to make a parody site that actually
is about keeping your voter virginity and not wasting it on a candidate
you don't even like just because all your friends are doing it.
-adam
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:03:46 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Super Mario Clouds
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:57:34 -0600
From: "Klara Y. Kim" <klarakim@[xxx]
To: "Moustaches H. Flinches"<duplications@[xxx]
Subject: Re: Luminescent, Exceptional deals on Cialhbis, 80 precnet off!
I think you're neat. Do you happen to know Pancake B. Unfitting? You two should team up and sell viagYtra together.
And I like how you're giving me a harder erection, helping me lose weight, bringing me out of depression, AND leading me toward salvation!
Yours,
Klara.
---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:19:55 -0800
>From: "Moustaches H. Flinches" <duplications@[xxx]
>Subject: Luminescent, Exceptional deals on Cialhbis, 80 precnet off!
>
>Well well well!
>Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
>Luminescent, looking for a place to get medicaticonn?
>Greatest ViagYtra and CialtOis
>Fast weight (ceviche exosmosis) loss and antidepressant meedication!
>Best price on ValiuBRm and XanaHMx
>Best deals, 80 pecnert off!
>We ship wodrlwide
>
>You are really anonymous!
>Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
>When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:04:23 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Sardius in EGM
The Sardius Experience (Johnny Turbo subsection super-feature) is a
"must-hit website" according to Electronic Gaming Monthly.
This means... something... but I'm not sure what.
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:08:44 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: on the ordering of dripmail
those new-fangled "weblog" things.
But the archives are in chronoligcal order, so that you can read them in
order. If you wanted to. And hopefully be less confused.
But since all this "weblog" software has generally organized even the
archives in reverse chronological order, is this just overly confusing? If
the standard practice makes no sense, but is quickly becoming standard, is
it better to just follow it since people will expect the nonsensical?
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 21:30:20 -0800
From: Josh Santangelo <josh@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: re: on the ordering of dripmail
page, and either do the archives the same way, or just do one entry per
page.
And break the archives up into months or something too, while you're at it.
-josh
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 21:51:43 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: month archives
HAPPY JOSH?!
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:47:48 -0800
From: Josh Santangelo <josh@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: re: month archives
you asked,
-josh
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:37:48 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: Josh Santangelo <josh@[xxx]
CC: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: re: month archives
If you don't like it you can just hack into this server and add some
strategically placed reverse calls to dripmail.pl.
-adam
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Josh Santangelo wrote:
> No! The home is backward and the archive is forward! Pick one!
>
> you asked,
> -josh
>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:51:17 -0600 (CST)
From: Ben Brown <ben@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: ADAM!
Do not advocate hacking into the server.
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 22:28:53 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: blogspot, ben's balls
Find out the exciting post-Deepleap life of the Deepleap servers.
(It involves genitalia.)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 00:02:52 -0600 (CST)
From: Ben Brown <ben@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: sigh
Why are the vulgar, brainless things always the most popular?
[ben@[xxx] ~/logs]# grep "2004-03-26-blogger.html" referer_log | wc -l
494
[ben@[xxx] ~/logs]# grep "switch" referer_log | wc -l
48074
-------------------------------------------------------
SO NEW MEDIA -- We Put Web Writers On Paper.
Girls! Girls! Girls!
by Claire Zulkey
Buy today at http://www.sonewmedia.com
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 00:04:20 -0600 (CST)
From: Ben Brown <ben@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: doh!
that was weird formatting.
494 = referrers to blogspot post.
48074 = referrers to switch ad.
-------------------------------------------------------
SO NEW MEDIA -- We Put Web Writers On Paper.
Girls! Girls! Girls!
by Claire Zulkey
Buy today at http://www.sonewmedia.com
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 00:36:59 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Re: sigh
probably fix that.
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 13:49:12 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: munging email addresses
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:50:33 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: content based information retrieval
dammit
my professor is driving me crazy with bad pronunciation
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:03:00 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Tivo and The Daily Show
http://www.4at2.com/email_domains/tio/0166/hosted/hosted.html
Q. Overall, I love TiVo more than my mother-in-law (don't print my full
name or city, please!), but here's my frustration: I have a Season Pass.
recording for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, which airs four times per
day. I want to record only the 11 PM show, but TiVo ends up recording all
four airings, which fills up my DVR unnecessarily. Yes, I can go into my
To Do List and delete recordings one-by-one, but might there be another
option?
[ It suggests using a manual recording of one timeslot, which is what I
do, BUT, this means I also end up stupidly recording whatever is on Comedy
Central at 10pm on Friday, even though the Daily Show isn't on then since
I can't specify Mon-Thurs without doing 4 manual recordings. ]
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:41:48 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: the first dripmail sw user
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:09:07 -0600
From: "Klara Y. Kim" <klarakim@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: i had to say "tah-ruh-ring" because that's the korean way of saying "ring," teacher says.
it was very exciting, to be a korean phone.
Why Dripmail? What? Huh?
(sending email to dripmail at this domain name makes it appear here. plain text only, please.)
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