A few things happened this week in the fight against invasive marketing. Foremost is the announcement that the very first arrests under the federal CAN-SPAM act have been made. Arrest warrants were issued for four spammers in the Detroit area on the grounds that they sent fraudulent emails hawking weight loss pills, though two of… Continue reading Bureaucrats Finally Starting to Get It
Month: April 2004
FP!
Well, ok, it’s not really the First Post in the most technical sense, but it’s the first truly NEW post since the change of venue. I still have some more old stuff to add in, but first I’ll need to get the archiving sorted out. The left-side menu is already an unweildy height (especially on… Continue reading FP!
Impending site overhaul update: Overhauled
Update: 4.29.04 As you may have guessed if you’re reading this now, the relaunch has occured and I’m now in a spiffy new weblog format. Still plenty of kinks to iron out, numerous css bugs to address (many in IE, no surprise) and old content to be imported, but here it is. I’ll be fiddling… Continue reading Impending site overhaul update: Overhauled
The Page 23 Meme
For the past few days a meme has been spreading through most of the design blogs I read. I first saw it on Asterisk, then it spread to Hicks, Inman, Stopdesign, Binary Bonsai, Airbag and many others. In a few short days it has overrun this segment of the weblogging community (I refuse to use… Continue reading The Page 23 Meme