http://og.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision en Vox Wed, 07 May 2008 21:45:32 -0400 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://og.vox.com/library/post/hello-not-the-man-familiar-to-me.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Aaaugh!) http://og.vox.com/library/post/hello-not-the-man-familiar-to-me.html?_c=feed-rss http://og.vox.com/library/post/hello-not-the-man-familiar-to-me.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 07 May 2008 21:45:32 -0400 Have I ever mentioned that I love reading Russian mail-order bride spam? Because, you know, I do. And it just so happens that I received an excellent example of the genre this afternoon. It begins, "Hello not the man familiar to me!", and graduall... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://og.vox.com/library/post/hello-not-the-man-familiar-to-me.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c10e0f7277d3b400f48d1499f10001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> spam wordplay scam runglish http://og.vox.com/library/post/its-an-anchor-get-it-oh-never-mind.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Aaaugh!) http://og.vox.com/library/post/its-an-anchor-get-it-oh-never-mind.html?_c=feed-rss http://og.vox.com/library/post/its-an-anchor-get-it-oh-never-mind.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:39:41 -0400 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://og.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c10e0f7277d3b400f48d125cf00001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00c10e0f7277d3b400f48d125cf00001-50si" alt="A" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I saw the world's most terse license plate the other day. It looked something like this: Because it was on an SUV, I'm going to uncharitably assume that it's an HTML reference. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://og.vox.com/library/post/its-an-anchor-get-it-oh-never-mind.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c10e0f7277d3b400f48cf3af0d0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> html ohio license plate a http://og.vox.com/library/post/knees-who-needs-knees.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Aaaugh!) http://og.vox.com/library/post/knees-who-needs-knees.html?_c=feed-rss http://og.vox.com/library/post/knees-who-needs-knees.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:39:40 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://og.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c10e0f7277d3b400e398cdb71e0005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00c10e0f7277d3b400e398cdb71e0005-50si" alt="Flickr screenshot" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Sometimes computers assemble images in ways that can almost be considered inadvertent art. This series of images came up in a Flickr search. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://og.vox.com/library/post/knees-who-needs-knees.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c10e0f7277d3b400e398cd9cfd0001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> flickr art coincidence http://og.vox.com/library/post/television-preview.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Aaaugh!) http://og.vox.com/library/post/television-preview.html?_c=feed-rss http://og.vox.com/library/post/television-preview.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:38:18 -0500 Right at this very moment, I could be taking advantage of an exciting offer "to participate in a survey whose findings will directly influence what you see on television in the future." A couple weeks ago, I received tickets in the mail from a com... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://og.vox.com/library/post/television-preview.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c10e0f7277d3b400d4142350fd6a47?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> television advertising evil scam http://og.vox.com/library/post/i-uh-huh.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Aaaugh!) http://og.vox.com/library/post/i-uh-huh.html?_c=feed-rss http://og.vox.com/library/post/i-uh-huh.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:43:11 -0500 Searching for the band !!! at Yahoo Music returns the following artists: Little Anthony and the Imperials Claude Debussy 2Pac Leontyne Price Johann Sebastian BachOf course. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://og.vox.com/library/post/i-uh-huh.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c10e0f7277d3b400cd9717217f4cd5?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> music yahoo riddles http://og.vox.com/library/post/i-wish-i-could-make-this-stuff-up.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Aaaugh!) http://og.vox.com/library/post/i-wish-i-could-make-this-stuff-up.html?_c=feed-rss http://og.vox.com/library/post/i-wish-i-could-make-this-stuff-up.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:27:57 -0500 This recipe comes courtesy of Bach's Lunch, a 1971 cookbook published by the Junior Women's Committee to benefit the Cleveland Orchestra. They sold the book sold for a whole $3.00. Some of its recipes were provided by cooking celebrities of the da... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://og.vox.com/library/post/i-wish-i-could-make-this-stuff-up.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c10e0f7277d3b400d10a7bbaa28bfa?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> recipe cleveland browns icky cleveland orchestra art modell http://og.vox.com/library/post/error-message-of-ze-day.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Aaaugh!) http://og.vox.com/library/post/error-message-of-ze-day.html?_c=feed-rss http://og.vox.com/library/post/error-message-of-ze-day.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:19:28 -0500 The International Mozart Foundation in Austria has posted the sheet music for all of Mozart's scores online, and is offering them as free downloads. Apparently they're been very popular, and the number of downloads must be straining their server,... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://og.vox.com/library/post/error-message-of-ze-day.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c10e0f7277d3b400cdf7ecce3f094f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> music mozart wordplay http://og.vox.com/library/post/yeoz-weighlifter.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Aaaugh!) http://og.vox.com/library/post/yeoz-weighlifter.html?_c=feed-rss http://og.vox.com/library/post/yeoz-weighlifter.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:01:40 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://og.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c10e0f7277d3b400d10a7da3e58bfa.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00c10e0f7277d3b400d10a7da3e58bfa-50si" alt="Yeoz, weighlifter" /></a> <a href="http://og.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c10e0f7277d3b400cd970291c34cd5.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00c10e0f7277d3b400cd970291c34cd5-50si" alt="GNE Banana" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> While poking around on my hard drive, I unearthed a Game Neverending chat transcript from about three years ago. It's from when yeoz had discovered a bug in GNE Mark II that allowed him to pick up an enormous number of items, and he was seeing ju... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://og.vox.com/library/post/yeoz-weighlifter.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c10e0f7277d3b400cd970292194cd5?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> gne bananas game neverending yeoz http://og.vox.com/library/post/the-wombat.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Aaaugh!) http://og.vox.com/library/post/the-wombat.html?_c=feed-rss http://og.vox.com/library/post/the-wombat.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 03 Dec 2006 17:29:18 -0500 The wombat lives across the seas, Among the far Antipodes. He may exist on nuts and berries, Or then again, on missionaries; His distant habitat precludes Conclusive knowledge of his moods, But I would not engage the wombat In any form of mortal c... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://og.vox.com/library/post/the-wombat.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c10e0f7277d3b400cd970198d94cd5?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> wombat poem ogden nash