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Chipping the web – palindromic square root of a palindromic square root of a palindromic number (14641)

November 28th, 2006 7:14:40 pm pst by Sterling Camden

Chipping the webCan you say that backwards?

Another step towards radical transparency (thanks, Kiltak). I’m not only concerned for personal privacy — I wonder what health effects might result from exposure to this high frequency radiation …

Dave Winer clears up the definition of Web 2.0. It means “We be Google, too. Oh shit.”

TDavid’s been clearing up the snow today. Joshua Allen’s been having fun with the white stuff, too. The kids were out of school again today here. Freezing again tonight, and with another storm coming tomorrow night we may just have the kids in our hair all week.

I’m trying to decide whether to link to this (via Armchair Anarchist). Would you?

Hope you have good backups. But maybe you won’t need them. After all, the world is going to end soon (thanks, AA), isn’t it?

I wonder when humpback whales think the world will end? (via AA, again)

More to the point, when will e-mail as we know it end? It’s now 90% spam. (Thanks, Randy) Can-Spam is helping … not!

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4 Responses to “Chipping the web – palindromic square root of a palindromic square root of a palindromic number (14641)”

  1. apotheon says:

    I think the belief that legislation will ever help a situation like spam or telemarketing is one of the first indicators that someone doesn’t know a damned thing about whatever subject he’s contemplating.

  2. My Gmail filters (everything is My now: MyBook, MySpace, MyLanta), seem to de-spawn the creepers in the inbox, I mean the spam is kept out and captured in the Spam file, which I simply scan in a millionth of a microdynamic moment, and then click All and then Delete Forever. Flushed.

    So I barely and rapidly see spam in my email. But blog comment spam is getting sneakier.

  3. sterling says:

    apotheon: true dat. It takes government to royally mess things up at a princely price.

    Vaspers: My filters catch most also, but lately I’ve been getting a couple dozen a day that are getting past and into the Inbox. That really tweaks my drawers. And you’re right about comment spam. I posted this before reading your comment.

  4. [...] Okay, that title has got to throw somebody for a loop. If you’ve been following along, you’ve seen me get progressively more obscure/cute/stupid in my choice of numeric references. Why? I wanted each “Chipping the web” post to have a unique title, but I didn’t just want to append a number. So I used different languages’ names for numbers, different numeric representations, and various things that refer to a number. In yesterday’s title, “sulfur” is the element with the atomic number 16. I’m counting, in my own weird way. Can anyone make out how the title of today’s post is “17″? [...]

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