Kara & Michael’s Blog

It’s time for my weekly trawl through the 4d2.org spam quarantine. This time I thought I would critically review spam messages, in the interest of improving the quality of future spam.
So without further ado, here are my favorite spams of the week:
Spam subject line: “SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT: breaking japan finish woods spot blake federer xA1gzbq3ug8gNfgN9u63oQ”
Why it is [...]

Washington Post has a feature this week about obese children, or, pejoratively, “fat kids.”
I think this feature has been remarkably well done thus far, and it’s pretty interesting. Check out your nutritional knowledge on their quiz. I got a 65%, which isn’t great, but I guess I can be glad I don’t have [...]

Someone sent me a message on Yahoo! Answers to start an argument the other day.  I gave them the benefit of the doubt.  I looked at the site they sent me, did some of my own research and sent back a reasonable reply, asking for the sources for some of their “facts” and questioning a [...]

I’ve been so amused and confused by gourmeton.com that I’ve continued to try to figure out what makes it tick, adding to my original post a couple of times. First I couldn’t figure out what translation system could possibly yield such terrible (yet strangely comprehensible) English, then I found a whole bunch of sister sites [...]

When I first happened across this site (via a Google search) I assumed it was some strange fluke that would be gone in a week or two. Yet months later it’s still around, and I still have no idea what this site does.
Let me try to explain. It appears to be a storefront where you [...]

I do Google searches on just about everything. What I’m eating, what I’m looking at, what I’m thinking about, and so on. Not just to waste time, either — it never hurts to learn something unexpected about the topic at hand. Recently Google’s been frequently directing me to Associated Content, which is pretty much the [...]

NOTE: The content of this entry may not be suitable for individuals under age sixteen or so, or people who get uncomfortable with sex and female reproduction.
There’s no arguing that the internet is primarily a man’s world. I say there’s no arguing with it because if you visit any online forum, you’re bound to be [...]

Howdy, loyal readers. Michael and I have been working on the Gallery we have, and there are a few things up. Feel free to peruse it here. In order to see permission-protected galleries for family and friend pictures, you’ll need to set up a login and have us grant you permission.
Without registering [...]

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People of the Internet, hear me:
Stop using symbols from languages that you do not speak for purely aesthetic purposes! Just because those glyphs don’t mean anything to you doesn’t mean they’re meaningless to everybody!
I’m talking to you, Wikipedia/bulletin board posters who always put “ツ” after their names. It may look like a smiley face to [...]

I’m a stalker from way back, baby. As soon as I got your phone number, your bus-stop, I was all over you like tasty gluten is all over rice. I would find out your boy-scout troop, your class schedule, your after-school activities. I had friends in all places, lurking, watching and passing the information [...]