Archive for January, 2007

1.6 billion spam emails

A South Korean duo have been arrested for sending 1.6 billion spams between September and Deccember 2006.

Say it with iPod

Today I got an email from Apple saying “This Valentine’s Day, say it with iPod.” The attached site was here. It will be a very cold day in hell before the best thing I can think of for my wife is a red iPod with “Be my valentine,” engraved on the back.

Maybe a playlist, though…

Stacking cannonballs

A 1611 conjecture that the pyramid is the best way to stack cannonballs was finally proven by Dr. Thomas C. Hales and three months of CPU time.

DRM isn’t about piracy

Ken Fisher explains that DRM is really about squeezing every last cent from customers.