• Lemon Demon
  The artist responsible for the music to the Utlimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
  (tags: music funny)
• Neil Cicierega - Wikipedia
  The real person behind Lemon Demon and the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny and other songs/animations.
  (tags: funny music reference flash animation cartoons)
• Pain
  Indie alternative metal rock ska revival band that did the song Jabberjaw.
  (tags: funny music tolisten)
• The Indie Hipster Kryptonite DEATHTRAP!!
  Independent and alternative music podcast (seems to have podfaded).
  (tags: blog podcast music)
• superflow: Mixtape Podcast
  Discussion of indie music suggestions.
  (tags: blog music podcast recommendations)

I get no spam.

That’s not 100% accurate, but it’s pretty close. Ever since I started using Bogofilter, the amout of spam I get is as close to zero as makes no odds. A little over a year now, and I think I’ve received two spam messages in my inbox. I do, however, get a slightly higher number of false positives. These are generally still unsolicited emails, but may or may not be something I actually want to look at. Bogofilter would normally flag these as “unsure,” but I turned off the unsuredness feature so that emails are straight black and white, spam or not spam. That eases my training a bit, and I don’t think it hurts the filtering all that much (on the contrary, I think it helps it in my situation). The only trade off is I still have to check my spam folder for false positives every so often, but I’ve set a threshold on it so only the stuff that’s really close to being legit is placed in there. Everything else gets shit-canned.

Which leads me to my post. I noticed a message in there this morning that seemed to come from the Royal Bank. Yeah, yeah. A banking e-mail. I know. Probably spam.

And it was. The interesting bit was not so much how official it looked or asked me to click on a link (that went off to some Italian server somewhere), no. The interesting bit was this:

We’d like to thank you in person for your loyalty – and take some time to get to know you better. Just stop by any Royal Bank of Canada branch or RBC Banks location on Thursday, May 31th for coffee and cake and help us celebrate Customer Appreciation Day.

I wonder how many people are going to fall for that. Clever… not good, but clever.

• Indian air-powered City Cat car prepares for production run - Engadget
  Is anyone else disappointed that this has absolutely nothing to do with the Nekobasu (aka Catbus) from My Neighbour Totoro?
  (tags: automobile technology future)
• Catbus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  It is a large creature, depicted as a grinning cat with a hollow body that serves as a bus, complete with windows and seats coated with fur, and a large bushy tail. A door magically appears when a person would like to board it to travel.
  (tags: anime movies totoro japan animation cartoons)

• Unplugged
  UnPlugged is an application to notify when the power cord of the Mac is unplugged or plugged in. Notifications are done using Growl, or with a Alertwindow, when Growl is not installed.
  (tags: apple battery mac osx software utility totry macbook)
• The Internet Repository of Free Hidden Information Videos
  I love watching these what I call quackumentaries.
  (tags: video documentary interesting towatch)

Sorry ’bout that folks! My net connection crapped out around 5:20 AM this morning. It was up briefly around 7:30 AM and 1:00 PM, but the server was making strange noises and was turned off until I could get home from work and give it a closer look. It’s back up and running as of 5:30 PM. The noise was just the fan on the graphics card. A few bursts of compressed air and everything is A-OK.

As the the cable modem, things have been OK since noon, but they’re still going to come by tomorrow aft to have a look anyway.