Archive for March, 2006

SpamBot Flypaper

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

A while ago I blogged about The Rise of BlogBots, dinky webcrawlers that search blogs that allow comments and then spam the comments with ads for Viagra, and what not. Since then SpamBots have been swarming that post, and only that post! So much that it began to seem very odd. Can anyone guess [...]

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Jay Z lifting lines from Blade Runner?

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

There’s this line in Kanye West’s Diamonds Are ForEver Remix featuring Jay Z…

“I’m not a Businessman,
I’m A Business, man!”
…that is very similar to Rachael’s (Sean young) reply in the movie Blade Runner when Deckard (Harrison Ford) aks her whether she is in the business of making replicants:
” I’m not in the Business,
IAM the Business!”

I’m [...]

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