E-Dribble

It came to light that Citibank was going ahead with a $50 million luxury jet purchase in spite of the fact that they couldn’t stay afloat without tax payers’ assistance. To be clear, they were incapable of running a profitable business, so they signed on for the billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money that our government gave them to keep them afloat.

This isn’t news. This is America at it’s best.

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Years ago, if you dealt with domain names in any way, your snail mailbox probably saw one of these pieces of mail at least once every couple of months.

Scamming pieces of shit would send out mail to publicly available registered owners of domains with what looked like a legitimate renewal bill for their domain.  You would pay them money and your domain wouldn’t get renewed.

Because, you know… they weren’t really your registrar.

They were scamming pieces of shit.  We had already established this.  Try to stick with me, mkay?

Well, the long, atrophied arm of the law came down on them and they got in big trouble for doing that.  The number of mails received went down drastically.

But the allure of an easy buck was just sitting there.  They didn’t want to do fake renewals any longer, since it was already skylined and therefore subject to the law of diminished returns, but they knew that there was some way to continue on in the same tradition.

Enter these geniuses:

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Remember the kid I told you about that made a really cool game?  The one with the goofy monacle? Petri Purho is his name and his specialty is viral games.

Well, Crayon Physics Deluxe has  been released and after playing it for a week or so, I can say without any reservations that it’s an absolute blast.

The concept is very simple.  You have a ball that you have to get from point A to point B in an environment by creating objects that effect it in the game world.  As the name suggests, you use the laws of physics to accomplish your goal.

The finish of the game is spectacular and the fan based maps are plentiful in case you finish all of the islands in one night.

If you don’t buy the game, you’re letting the commercial game companies win.

Not really, but you are an asshole.

Look, I just don’t have the wherewhithall to draft a witty response, so I was checking the askimet spam queue in hopes of some comedy gold that I didn’t have to contribute to.  I am so glad that I looked.  Take these two nuggets of asshatedness as my gift to you.  I give you retards of spam.

to: Admin – If You want to delete your site from my spam list, please sent url of your domain to my e-mail: stopspam@mail.net
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Wow, I can get my site deleted from their spam list!  Spammers have gotten so much more courteous over the years.  I can only imagine all the employees working diligently at their cubicles removing sites from their spam list.

I bet they farm the work out to India.

Attention All Site Owners: The following website openly promotes unfair tactics to gain high ranking in search engines! retardswithgooglefordummies.com Their members use dark art scripts free of charge. Those people are ruining the web! AVOID them at all costs!

Did you hear that guys?  DO NOT VISIT THAT SITE!  ALTHOUGH THEY WILL ROCKET YOUR DOMAIN TO THE TOP OF GOOGLE WITHIN SECONDS, THEY WILL DO IT WITH WIZARDRY, UP TO AND INCLUDING POINTY HATS AND WANDS!

I needed a PHP calendar application for a client so did a search today:  “open source php calendar”.  Now for all the ignorant out there, the open source designator is not because we’re cheap.  Today I found a perfect example of why nobody should waste time with a closed source application.

One of my results for my search was the “Easy PHP Calendar“.  Please note that the word “Easy” is in the title.

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