Category Archives: Weird

Technology and Society, Weird

“Give We Shall Meet”

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That’s the subject of a spam email I got this morning. It’s from “kenon nader” Here are the entire contents: “Greetings, how are you doing? Give we shall meet”

No link to a web site, just a return email address of someone at “allforchildren.org.” And right after typing this, I got another one, same subject and contents, from “duff shiahn-w <assessoriaadm@lo.unisal.br>”

What is the point of this stupidity?

[Update in the late afternoon]

Apparently it’s a buffer overflow attack trojan. I don’t think it works very well with Thunderbird, given that I have Javascript disabled (which is why I didn’t see the script). And my blog is now numero uno on Google for “give we shall meet.”

[Update a couple minutes later]

Here’s more info.

Weird

Failed Darwin Attempt

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First off, let me say that I was not previously aware of a web site called Weird Asia News. But given how many people live in Asia (and how generally weird the place is, at least to non-Asians), it’s an obvious and probably abundant source for such stuff.

Anyway, here’s a fun one–a Peeping Tom who fell ten stories while trying to video a woman in a shower with a cell phone. And survived.

And naturally, there’s an amusing Free Republic thread devoted to the incident.

Philosophy, Popular Culture, Weird

More Vampire Rights

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Jon Schaff, who started the subject, has what he hopes is the last word. I have to confess being a little lost in the conversation, not having been a Buffy fan.

And if it’s the end of the vampire discussion, perhaps it’s time we moved on. To zombies.

[Update mid-Friday afternoon]

Well, I should have Googled the subject; we could have saved ourselves a lot of discussion. Here’s a Rothbardian treatise on the subject from three years ago:

In The Ethics of Liberty, his great reconciliation of Austrian economics and natural law ethics, Murray Rothbard commented that a new species of beings having “the characteristics, the nature of the legendary vampire, and [that] could only exist by feeding on human blood”(1) would not be entitled to individual rights, regardless of their intelligence, because of their status as deadly enemies of humanity. I wish to discuss this issue in more detail and argue that Rothbard, who was kind of a night owl himself, was unfair to those mysterious creatures. The libertarian theory of justice would in fact easily allow for a peaceful coexistence with vampires.

But of course. Just no non-consensual neck biting.