Seth Roberts, he of the Shangri La diet, has a blog. I see it in my RSS reader. I was amazed to see a post that seemed to have been, er, penetrated, thusly:

Screenshot of spam appearing in RSS feed

So I went to the blog post itself. And lo! all those nasties were invisible.

Screenshot of post not infected by spam

So I checked the source, and they’re not there either....

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[T]o put it in one bleak sentence, no medium has ever survived the indifference of 25-year-olds.

That’s Clay Shirky, explaining to Decca Aikenhead in The Guardian why the print edition of The Guardian (and presumably just about everything else) will be as anachronistic as a telegram in 15 ye...

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Clickety clackety click. Yes indeedy, I'm firing on all cylinders here, and the room resounds to the rat-a-tat of my spiffy new keyboard. It's a Das Keyboard Model S Professional UK and I love it to bits.1 As a typewriter, it's the best. Not just the noise but the spacing, pitch and feel of the...

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I’m still reeling from a purchase last night: a 1Tb hard drive for 109 euros. First, who would ever have thought that I would need a 1Tb hard drive? And secondly, who would ever have thought that I could get one for chump change?

Answer: If it is one of many HP models, it is "regionalized". Ink cartridges you buy in one country won't necessarily work in a printer bought in another country.

That completely blows chunks.

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