What do the following have in common?

• Usenet News
• Email
• Instant Messenger
• Blog comments
• Entire blogs
• Wikis
• Myspace Friend & Group Requests.

Yes, they’re all spam vehicles!

As a method of online communication becomes popular, the probability that it becomes a vehicle for spam approaches 1.

It hit me this week when my myspace account, which I’d reluctantly acquired and then actually started to enjoy, started spewing friends requests from young women I’ve never heard of at me (remarkably, at least two or three of these women, with different names and accounts, have posted exactly the same picture on their accounts) and group requests from things like “webcam enthusiasts.”

One more means of communication, one more source of spam.

YouTube – Urban Ninja

Linked on Reddit (which I love hate can’t stop reading).

Talk about carpe diem — you know this kid will be dead or drooling from traumatic head injury before he’s far into his twenties. But clearly to him it is worth it.

YouTube – Intro Billy & Mandy

My favorite part of the intro (along with the skeletal->musculature->skin zap thing) is where the zombie and skeleton arms burst out of the graves and throw the Horns a couple times.

WRAL.com – News – Apology Left After Car Burning, Same Day Neighbor’s Car Targeted

Chris Belfiore discovered an apology painted on the sidewalk in front of his house two days after the arson of his roommate’s car.He noticed the message, “Wrong house sorry,” written in wet blue paint after seeing his neighbor’s car on fire early Thursday morning.

I don’t know why, but I find this completely hilarious.

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