Charles on… anything that comes along

Have a look at the output of a Google search for the phrase “George Huff for courtiing ridicule … Against All Odds”. (Go on, I’ll wait.) 218 results as I do it here; I’ve had an attempted spam, which inserts random words into what seems like a theatre reviewing discourse (”although I do have to give props to George Huff for courting ridicule by performing “Against All Odds” (and also saying his favourite film was The Wiz and he identified with Dorothy…bless!).But irony doesn’t only operate along the axis of value. If we give up the idea of “liking things ironically” as we surely should that doesn’t mean our aesthetics are suddenly irony-free. (To claim this would be as silly as all those…”

If anyone knows the original source.. that’d be interesting. (Apart from an Amsterdam-based spammer, of course, who has twisted it and added chemicals into the sentences randomly).

Spam is a retrovirus because people who wouldn’t use it begin to when they think it works. The trouble is that you have to do more of it to make an impact as more people do it. Eventually you kill the host. The comparison with HIV isn’t perfect, but HIV isn’t the only retrovirus.

These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
• Spam attack? Tell Google, and wipe out online herpes (14 July 2005; score: 50.88%)
• The war on blog spam: going about as well as the one on terrorism (15 September 2004; score: 43.07%)
• Would you trust a "managed solutions" company that allows compromised PC in its control to sending spam? (26 November 2004; score: 38.62%)