Virtual Thought

It might be too much to hope for, but since the Democrats only need three more seats as of right now (11:48 pm) to take back control of the Senate.

• Virginia—won’t be decided for days… recount city here we come!
• Montana
• Missouri

So, c’mon you little states! You know what to do!

And, as a side note, he is now the former Senator Santorum... so maybe the real definition (the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex) will gain name recognition.

I was talking to Ryan and he asked me what RSS reader I used. “Nothing,” I replied, “I just visit the websites themselves.”

“What?” he exclaimed, flabbergasted. “You visit websites?” Jesus, I thought, when did visiting websites become old school?

So I’ve been taking Ryan’s suggestion and using Google Reader. It’s a pretty nice piece of work and has definitely decreased the amount of time I spend catching up. As I remember to add sites that I frequent (Boing Boing, 37signals, the various friends’ blogs I read) I’m reminded of just how much information I try and take in every day in an effort to raise my cluefulness.

In that vein, one thing that caught me by surprise today was a post on BoingBoing about phishers sending out pink-slips. Apparently when someone sends out targeted spam with the intent of defrauding someone (installing malware like keystroke loggers or the like) this is called spear phishing.

That is awesome.