Today is the day of rants and cool stuff (because it’s Friday).
First off, I’d like to say that I HATE YOU DONALD TRUMP!! I enter my email on his website to download this PDF to make me a rich, and the next thing you know? I GET SPAMMED WITH VIAGRA (and other shit) EMAILS!! Is that the price you pay for trying to be rich and retiring at 21? I’ve spent the last 2 years taking very very careful of that one email account from spam and a billionaire finally ruins it for me. Can we say, UGH? I guess it’s kind of my fault for not using the account I started just for things like this. Sigh.
Speaking about spam, here are my top 3 tips to prevent you from being spammed (assuming that you haven’t been already):
- Start a new email account to sign up for things on the internet and especially when signing blogs. Ironically, I’ve NEVER been spammed at this address before so I can’t guarantee that it works. But I think they just haven’t gotten to me yet because this one is quite new. Muhehehe.
- NEVER put your email address on your website in plain text. If you need to, use this code (change the bolded text):
<script language=”JavaScript” type=”text/javascript”>
<!–
var string1 = “trump“;
var string2 = “@”;
var string3 = “likestospam.com“;
var string4 = string1 + string2 + string3;
document.write(“<a href=” + “mail” + “to:” + string1 +
string2 + string3 + “>” + string4 + “</a>”);
//–>
</script>…which will be displayed as: trump@likestospam.com
- And last but not least, don’t look at porn or sign up for anything related.
Anyway here are some click-worthy links:
www.worldometers.info; ever wonder how many hours people diet in the U.S. this year or how many books are published? Well now you get to know all this useless but uber cool statistics!
www.blackle.com; been wanting to post this for a while now (been sitting in my drafts for 6 months now) but here you go… introducing the earth-friendly version of Google.
www.blublu.org; awesomely freakish video made by Blu (and the rest of his art work).
And one more shameless plug for Tiff because she made me fall off the couch laughing my arse off: Extreme Makeunder.
But anyway, just kidding, I don’t hate Donald Trump… I just really envy and admire him. 
KATY:
I hate spam! ARGH! Spam drives me completely nuts :\ Good luck with that.
I saw Tiff’s latest blog. I was fucking laughing! She’s so funny LOL.
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Dude, the one the thing that I hate the most about Donald Trump is his hair. Is that even hair anyway? It’s so weird and it’s so thin. His hair looks like one of those things you see rolling in the background of a windy western scene.
Also, I think he only holds his baby when they’re doing like a family portrait or something. I saw one where it was his wife and Trump who was holding the baby (at that time, it was a baby). The way he held him looked soo unnatural and forced, you could tell he’s not a typical father.
Thanks for the tip on spam. One of mine is that when I’m commenting on someone else’s site, usually, I just let my fingers do the typing, so I’d get sdfds@kjdsf.com as an email. I do that to haloscans and other scripts that normally doesn’t say “email not displayed”.
As for the Blackle site, how is it earth-friendly? I’m guessing since it’s all dark and it saves more electricity or something? Hope that wasn’t a blond moment!
And thanks for the shameless plug. I didn’t it’d be that be funny
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Theres 2 things here: i hate spam and I hate donald trump. Seriously he annoys me so much with his horrible thinning hair and his vacuous wife. Although spam is slightly more annoying to me. Thanks for the tips though- I’ll put it in use as soon as I can be bothered to sign up for another email addy.
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I dont really like Trump, but I also envy him. Hes kind of an ugly man if you ask me.
Usually I get at least 5 or more spam emails per day because I signed up for this thing to win some money. I shouldve known better. Some things are too good to be true!
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Haha, you know… I’ve always wondered why Donald Trump can’t find a toupée that looks real! He has so much money and it looks like he just shaved a cat and put it on his head.
Apparently that Backle site doesn’t do anything! I remember being told about it last year and then finding out that it doesn’t help the environment. I could be wrong though~ :S
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oh man i hate spam! great tips though, i have two email accounts. and it really works okay! one i use mostly on the web!
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Blackle isnt’ actually earth-friendly at all unless you have an old CRT monitor (and then only slightly). All monitors are blacklit, so whether the screen is back or not, it’s still consuming power but just blocking out the light. They give a quote from a paper in their about statement that makes it look like it might, but if you read the paper it says that there is only a noticable difference in power consumption if your screen is entirely black vs entirely white – anything else, like a normal desktop or webpage display, even if the background is black, consumes the same amount of power (sorry, I’m a nerd). They’re really misleading.
great spam tips! I never thought about using javascript.
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Katy
May 21st, 2008 |
Thanks for letting me know Sasha. I’ve never used Blackle as a homepage either though because I don’t like dark webpages.
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OMG, lol at Trump spamming you. I dont really mind spam cos it’s easy to mark them. I have several email accounts and sometimes, I keep forgetting what I used for this and that.
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sppppamm -=p i hate spam comments,
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Wow, Trump’s spamming you? That sucks! Spam in general is such an annoyance, and without all the plugins on my WP I would have a million more spam comments. Nowhere on the inet is safe!
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That sucks that you got spammed… I hate things like that, but there’s a ton of sites out there that falsify big names such as Trump. You just have to make sure that you are at the right link, etc. I get spammed a lot in my gmail, but that’s to be expected because it’s gmail… they have a limited spamming system. I have multiple emails for different purposes. Thanks for sharing the code! ^_^
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