I think it’s scary that, according to this Slate article referencing that Nigerian spam message that you’ve no doubt seen (and deleted) at least once today, “enough people fork over enough cash to sustain an industry that ranks in Nigeria’s top five” … Wow!

Paul Graham has A Plan for Spam … “I think it’s possible to stop spam, and that content-based filters are the way to do it.” Sounds good to me!

Heh … This actually sounds like a good idea … SpamBattle.com : Using cost-per-click search engines to make spammers pay!

Interesting article : “Every time we make a few songs available on my website, sales of all the CDs go up. A lot…"

What an awesome service: VerisignOff ! — “Network Solutions is a company owned by Verisign that registers and administers top-level domain names for customers throughout the world. These companies engage in a variety of business practices that are, in our opinion, unethical, fraudulent, and calculated to be opaque and unfriendly to consumers. Despite many well-publicized, and in some cases, frankly nefarious, scandals involving these companies, millions of people continue to patronize them as the registrars for their domain names.”

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Ok, maybe you’ve seen this one already, but it’s still “Priceles”

Probably old news, but still funny: “Spamradio: Using a complex arrangement of pipes and funnels we turn the junk mail that we receive into a streaming audio broadcast that can be enjoyed from anywhere on the Internet.”

Doh! From BusinesWeek: “New pricing plans for broadband use could make downloading pirated music and movies a prohibitively costly habit”

Link via MetaKM: “Although communities of practice develop organically, a carefully crafted design can drive their evolution. In this excerpt from a new book, the authors detail seven design principles. The payoff? Knowledge management that works.”