Damn comment spammers and browser hi-jackers

I’ve really yet to have too much trouble with comment spamming. I’ve had my dealings with them before, but my IP ban list keeps most of them at bay. However, I had one that probably would’ve run rampant on my site had I not locked his IP.

If you were on this site about 45 minutes ago, you would’ve noticed that this post had 90 comments on it. Yes, you read that right. The most any of my posts have had is about 25. Every single comment was by the same guy, and he submitting this oh-so-relevant comment:

Dear Apple,

I am a homosexual. I bought an Apple computer because of its well earned reputation for being “the” gay computer. Since I have become an Apple owner, I have been exposed to a whole new world of gay friends. It is really a pleasure to meet and compute with other homos such as myself. I plan on using my new Apple computer as a way to entice and recruit young schoolboys into the homosexual lifestyle; it would be so helpful if you could produce more software which would appeal to young boys. Thanks in advance.

with much gayness,

Father Randy “Pudge” O’Day, S.J.

Dear Father O’Day:

Thanks for your letter. Being Catholic myself, I know exactly what you’re talking about! It has always been our plan here at Apple Computer Inc to revolutionize personal computing with our high-quality and highly gay products.

I’m happy to answer your letter by letting you know that YES we will be releasing an entire hLife (“homo-life”) software line. You’ll be able to recognize it in stores by the small stylized logo depicting a large cock entering a tight anus with an Apple logo on it. (“Suddenly it all comes together” indeed!).

Anyway, I hope you and other members of our community will join us on our mission, and purchase the exciting new hLife boxed set. Only the boxed set comes with translucent cock rings!

Sincerely,

Harry Rodman

Vice-president

Homosexual Liaison Services

Apple Computer, Inc.

I’m going to take the approach of my Australian partner in crime, and post all of this moron’s relevant info in hopes that it gets spammed (too bad my site blocks quite a few spam bots already). Or, in case somebody’s bored, you can do a denial of service on the moron’s site:

IP Address: 202.186.7.251

Have fun with it.

The e-mail address that was included was a fake address at a good, legitimate domain, but the problem was that I made the mistake of clicking on the URL that the guy included. If you know what’s good for you, you will not go to http://ner0-0nline.0rg/1@stmea$ure/ (and I’ve intentionally replaced certain characters so you don’t accidentally copy and paste). If you do head there, for god-sakes, do it in a text-based browser. If you’ve seen the goats.cx image, you’ll need to understand that the goats.cx image is tame compared to URL — and it will do everything in its power to hi-jack your browser (latterly 100 pop up windows with equally disgusting crap as well as annoying background music).

For you coders out there, you can see the source code for the page here so you can see the nasty JavaScript. It vicious.

You can actually view the root of the site here which contains links to other browser hi-jacks including the one that took over mine (Last Measure). Good site to use to trash people’s home page, but page links to click on yourself.

You can view the Whois here. Needless to say, the owner of that site is getting crap for putting fake crap in his domain records.

I’m sure it’s not the site owner’s fault (though that Last Measure stuff is disgusting) that somebody posted 90 comments on one post on my site — he probably had nothing to do with it. But he is the one hosting some nasty browser hi-jacks, that’s for sure.

December 30, 2003

Look out for almanac-welding thugs

So says the US Government.

The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning that the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning.

I’d be more worried about the guy with the laptop with WiFi access who’s downloading crap off the ‘net than some guy with a dated almanac — and I’m not really worried about either.

December 30, 2003

Free Premium Joke Site

Ray over at Joke A Day is giving everybody a Christmas Gift: Free access for a few days to his premium joke site. Until 01/05/04, you can access the premium site at http://www.jokeaday.com/kringle/. If you like what you see, it’s only $5/year.

He sent a joke along with today’s announcement:

A young Jewish mother walks her son to the school bus corner on his first day of kindergarten.

“Behave, my bubaleh” she says. “Take good care of yourself and think about your mother, tataleh! And come right back home on the bus, schein kindaleh. Your Mommy loves you a lot, my ketsaleh!”

At the end of the school day the bus comes back and she runs to her son and hugs him.

“So what did my pupaleh learn on his first day of school?”

The boy answers, “I learned my name is David.”

December 30, 2003

2003 “Best of” Lists

’tis that time of the year where everybody publishes a “Best of” or “Most something-a-rather” list for the year, and this year is no different. While Barney‘s pounding out a story highlighting the stories of the year locally, here are a few that I have sitting in my inbox (feel free to suggest more):

Those are ones I’ve seen today, and I’ll add more as I come across them. Feel free to comment here and I’ll add it to this list.

December 30, 2003

I’ll just stick my foot in my mouth

I was just reading a story over at Bend.com about the driving conditions, plowing, etc… in Bend after our snow dump. My street hadn’t been plowed when I was reading the story (though most of Bend had), so I posted this comment to the story:

It’s nice that they’re getting most of town (read: The newer/more-expensive neighborhoods) but is there anybody who, like me, is on the older Northeast area of town who is still waiting for their road to be plowed? I’m calling a taxi to get to my doctor’s appointment today because my wife can’t drive me because she can’t get out of our neighborhood (and I can’t drive because of my back/leg that I’m having checked out today).

EVERYBODY I’ve talked to, all over town, has been plowed, but it’s 9:00 am, on the 3rd day of this mess, and I’m still snowed in.

OK, done ranting 🙂

Not even two minutes after I posted that comment, I heard a truck on the street. Assumed it was the garbage man, but it was a snowplow. Granted, my road’s still in really bad shape, and my wife still wouldn’t drive in this mess. So the cab is still scheduled to be here at 10:00.

I have to admit though, this is the first time in a long time that I’ve been able to see the top of the mountain on Mt. Bachelor’s Web Cam.

December 30, 2003

Airline Passenger Misconduct Reports

A full 103-page PDF report that contains a “sampling of reports that reference passenger misconduct.” Basically, it’s a bunch of report of airline passengers being idiots. The reports are full of the typical drunks and people trying to get upgrades because they think they have been treated badly. Al’s Morning Meeting Provided the link, and some examples of what’s there:

Page 13 includes a first class passenger reading a porno mag and causing — how shall I say — a disturbance.

Page 21 is a report about how people using cell phones apparently caused the auto pilot to malfunction. The pilot had made an announcement on the intercom about the start of the Iraq ground war that excited people so they started firing up their cell phones.

Page 27 is about an irate passenger throwing ice at a “religious official” sitting in front of her. They cuffed her and hauled her off the plane. She seemed fine just before she started drinking a Bloody Mary.

Page 59 features a loose dog on the plane — the owner was drunk and abused the flight attendant. The plane landed at DFW.

Page 67 has just one of several stories about passengers who would not get off their cell phones during takeoff. Other passengers unite in a verbal revolt.

Page 25 is a bizarre story about a San Francisco TV chopper that somebody ought to report. The TV reporter in the chopper was apparently taking a picture of a beer stein for a friend when the stein fell out of the helicopter over a populated area.

Heck, print the thing out and take it on a flight with you — it should keep you busy for all of it.

December 29, 2003

If libraries were like Amazon.com

Would they look something like this?

December 29, 2003

Yet another reason to hate PETA

They’re going to performances of the holiday favorite Nutcracker, handing out “Your Mommy Kills Animals” pamphlets to small kids whose parents wear fur. Full story.

Update on 12/29: Here’s a page that shows what they were handing out.

December 29, 2003

Ladies and Gentlemen, the world’s drunkest man

With a blood alcohol content of 7.22 (what is Oregon’s legal limit, .7 I think or .07? I can’t remember), I think we have a new winner.

December 29, 2003

Threesome Toad Taxidermy

This eBay auction is entitled TOAD-FROG “THREESOME SEX STYLE TAXIDERMY #2!!. So does that mean there was an original version of this weird thing? I certainly hope not. The description: “You are bidding on three real frogs taxidermy doing it threesome style.” Sick and wrong, I tell you.

December 29, 2003