It took nearly a year since the last time my entity-reference-encoded email address got spam, but it’s happened again, so I guess it’s time to change it. fpcraig is dead; long live blogboy.
As an experiment, and because I knew I’d be deactivating fpcraig soon anyway, I tried the “remove me” link provided in the first piece of spam fpcraig received. Within three and a half hours, the second piece arrived, and within 15 hours, the address received the latest worm. By comparison, my primary email address receives an average of one piece of spam a week, and has never been sent a worm (other than from a dear, but somewhat careless, friend). And yes, I can read the headers: the spam and the worm all came through standard spammer channels (originating on (or at least relayed through) machines in dialup IP space, and sent to my secondary MXer); so far, my dear friend seems to be clean.
On the downside, now I’m getting dictionary-spammed. Crap.

I can’t imagine this comes as much of a surprise to anyone, but a Sundance Documentary Award Winner called The Corporation documents the diagnosis of a corporation as a psychopath, using DSM-IV (one-third cooler than DSM-III, with the same number of lines!) criteria.

As previously reported, the AFA was doing a poll about attitudes toward gay marriage, with a view to reporting the results to Congress. But now that the poll’s results aren’t reflecting the AFA’s religious-political-extremist agenda, they’re declining to follow through.

As all educated folk know, love is addictive as hell, and simply a trick your body and brain chemistry play on you to get you to spawn. Still, it’s more fun than the alternative.

If you’re of a technical bent, and looking for a place to apply your skills in the community, check out NPower (or, if you’re near the center of the universe, try their Seattle affiliate). They’re dedicated to "Putting technology know-how in the hands of nonprofits." In the Rose City, farther from the sway of the Evil Empire, they have FreeGeek.

From Israel21c:

Jan. 21 – The chief rabbi of the city of Safed, Shlomo Eliyahu, has composed a special prayer for those who have accidentally entered pornographic sites or have had those sites pop up unannounced on their screens. Yediot Aharonot reported that concerned religious surfers contacted Rabbi Eliyahu,telling him that they had accidentally entered pornographic sites while surfing. On hearing this, Eliyahu composed a special prayer for protection from entering pornographic sites by accident: “Please, God, help me to cleanse my computer of all sorts of viruses and evil images that spoil and interfere with my lawful work, and allow me to cleanse myself so that I may be pure of mind and may pray with a perfect heart, and that I may raise a family in true, stable love.” Eliyahu said that the prayer should be said every time one goes onto the Internet.

Me, I’m sticking with AVG.

musicplasma tells me that Norah Jones is close to almost all my favorite artists. As with many such "if you like this, try this" tools, it has an inadequate understanding (or perhaps representation) of the many ways two things can be similar (or one thing can be different). The belief that someone who likes Queen will also enjoy Roger Taylor‘s solo work doesn’t take into account the fact that Roger didn’t especially like a lot of the music that Queen put out, especially in the later years. Or even the perfectly reasonable expectation that a solo record would be substantially different from the group’s work (otherwise, why bother?).

Why 47? Just ask the 47 Society.

National Hugging Day is on hump-day this year. I would have had no idea, had I not gotten the Oopsy-Daisy calendar for my office.

I was wandering through Vonda McIntyre’s site the other day, and ran across her list of pitfalls for writers. Then Pat Holt‘s Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See showed up on Blogdex. Maybe someone’s actually trying to literally tell me something.