Black and white rag.

• You always knew that spammers were abominations.

• Bass for the short! (courtesy jezebel_z).

I am the muse's little bitch of late, brutally sodomised hourly by great ideas and ending up sore, bruised, bleeding and yet somehow deeply pleasured and just wanting more. Not only do they just jump out at me — the smoking one was a random news headline on GMail — but I'm getting requests. And when I'm bored at work I look at BBC News and the headlines can be enough. I wonder if I'll be able to stop at the end of the month.

The Blow Up by Television is fantastic. Cassette quality, but rocks like fuck. For all your New York art-punk needs.

feanelwa is over visiting! I am downstairs making sure idiot quizzes go out as they should. Woot.

Hackers nab €800,000 from Nordea Bank.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Friday (UNN) — Russian hackers have accepted €800,000 in donations from customers of Nordea, Sweden's largest bank, after a sophisticated "phishing" campaign recruited customers into downloading a Trojan horse program that recorded their account login details.

The Russians had looked up the definition of "hacker" in the Jargon File and been inspired to leverage the creative power of open source Free Software. The first campaign took place in August 2006 and was detected a month later, having affected around 250 Nordea customers.

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