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The Academy Awards were announced today. I would have wrote Oscar, but I heard that Oscar in connection with awards was trademarked. Which means that it may be illegal to say the O word with the A word. And I say that the O-A doesn’t really need any more attention than it has already received today. In fact, I’m sort of tired of awards and award shows. There are just too many of them. And no one really respects the existence of any of them, except the people who win them. Then, it’s the biggest shit in the universe. But for me, from now on, I shall ban any and all award show reporting, except when it comes to dumb or slutty fashion, then I must not only report on it, but I must show an enormous number of photos of the said subject.
E-Mail Virus Points to Human Flaws
I’ve been receiving all of these strange e-mails today. I knew something fishy was going on. Luckily, I have a boatload of virus protection and other crap security measures to combat the problem. But this one was a little sneaky. The e-mail made it look like I sent it, which I know I hadn’t. And we all know about curiousity and the cat.
I was tempted to open it, but I went with the force and deleted it all. Unfortunately, for the unknown people who usually send me crap through e-mail from my public e-mail address, I deleted a lot of shit in haste, which means that I might have deleted a legitimate mail or two. But, hey,it ain’t my fault.
Unlike other mass-mailing worms, Mydoom does not attempt to trick victims by promising nude pictures of celebrities or mimicking personal notes. Rather, messages carry innocuous-sounding subject lines, like “Error” or “Server Report” and messages in the body such as “Mail transaction failed. Partial message is available.”
New e-mail worm breaks infection records
Infected e-mail messages carrying the Mydoom virus, also known as “Shimgapi” and “Novarg,” have been intercepted from over 142 countries and now account for one in every 12 e-mail messages, according to Mark Sunner, chief technology officer at e-mail security company MessageLabs Ltd.
That surpasses the Sobig.F virus record, which appeared last August and, at its peak, was found in one of every 17 messages intercepted by MessageLabs, he said.
Since first detecting the new virus at 1:00 PM GMT on Monday, MessageLabs intercepted almost 1 million infected e-mail messages carrying the virus, Sunner said.
The virus has “followed the sun,” hitting hard in the U.S. and Canada late on Monday, then working its way through Asia and Europe on Tuesday, he said.
The universe is a great place. I live for it. As you can see, I’ve decided to start thinking positive. Negativity is out the window. Only good thoughts will enter my brain. Only good things will come out my mouth. I will rid myself of the toxicity. I will become a force for good, like Superman. Okay, not like Superman, because I ain’t down with Mister Red-Yellow-Blue. Superman is played out, and old. And we all know that old stuff is played out. Nobody likes old stuff, or old people. In fact, I think people even hate old people. I don’t. I love the elderly. Or some of the elderly. Okay, just one or two elderly people.
But Superman doesn’t have to worry about all that because he ages really really slow. I think by the time the old Superman died on Earth-2, or whatever, he was only 40 or 50 years old, or he used to dye his hair grey to look old. I honestly don’t know, because I never really followed Superman, except when DC Comics and John Bryne relaunch the title with Man Of Steel. Then I read all the Superman books for a couple of years, essentially losing interest when John Bryne stopped writing or drawing any of the four books. Since then, I’ve been really ignorant on the Steel dude.
I tend to do that alot, follow writers and artists, instead of reading the books for the characters. But I doubt if very many people read most of the comics they read for the characters. It’s all about the art, and maybe a really hot writer. Not a sexy writer, just a really hitting, on the money, words dude. I probably should stop doing that. Following artists and writers. Look what that gave the industry: Image Comics. It helps the industry not one bit. But I can’t help it. And I don’t think you can either.
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