Fun with spam

March 5, 2013 by Filigree 4 comments

Fun With Spam, Part 2

I don’t have a site counter on the Blue Night blog, so I don’t know how many people read it. That’s part of the fun. Really? You have never put a message in a bottle and thrown it into the sea, or tied it to a balloon? The law of averages says you’ll never get an…

October 21, 2012 by Filigree 6 comments

The ongoing spam collection

A quick break from the ‘No Pouting’ Party. Like every blog, this one gets spammed. Often. Most of the time the spam filters lock it up, but I go through occasionally to see if there are useful nuggets. If I get several dozen great ones, they might become further chopped up and turned into art.…

September 20, 2012 by Filigree 1 comment

aw, you shouldn’t have

A knock-off clothing shill just gave me a wonderful piece of random-generated text. I can’t release it, due to my listed guidelines for this blog. Though I fully intend to adapt it, typeset it, print it out on lovely paper or fabric, and turn it into a piece of art. Which I will then sell.…

Aside

A hint, O Wise and Beloved Readers: while I love comments, I’m hoping to see cogent ones. Patchwork comments with no clear relevance will not be posted, no matter how entertainingly insulting. Likewise, if your email addy leads me to believe you’re pitching knockoff fashion items.

If you cannot pass a college-level Turing test, your post will not be seen on this site.

Added note: If you’re just doing SEO tricks to drive traffic to your commercial site, you will send vague messages with content lifted from online sources. When you use content lifted from online sources, and your email sig comes from ANY kind of obviously commercial site, my spambots will probably squash your message without me ever seeing them. Don’t let your real messages be squashed. Be coherent, be literate, be appropriate to the topics at hand. Convince me and my bots you’re a human. ∞

September 4, 2012 by Filigree 2 comments

In my other life I am an artist working in a relatively unknown medium, but I’ve still managed to gain a following among collectors. In that other life, I get to use my writing skills in another way, by creating text-based art from original prose, poetry, out-of-copyright material, and ‘found’ material. One of my greatest…