The blogosphere is officially mundane. I’ve included in this post the text of a spam email that arrived in my work inbox today. The colours, fonts etc are exactly as it came to me. The header read “Baby Herbal Soup” and the text begged me to “pray” for the babies in a village in Canton who are being boiled into soup. Urban myth meets spam email.
I couldn’t help but go “Yeah, OK,” and click the link to www.handylanka.blogspot.com…It is a real trip.
There are real entries here, including videos and commentary on “stuff”, but it ain’t like no blog I’ve seen so far.
Sheer lunacy, I’ve got no idea what it was trying to sell me?
Like this entry, which reads in part: “to read the full story with lots of photographs”, that could be p*rn, but it doesn’t seem to be.
Baby Herbal Soup…???? !!!! Please Pray to Stop This !!!!!!
A town in Canton, China is now on trend taking baby herbal soup to increase health and sexual performance/stamina. The cost in China currency apprx. $ 4000 (it is about Rs 2000) ………………………………
To read the full story with lots of photographs …………
Visit … Read….Enjoy………
Only for handy men & pretty women
I kid you not, here’s one of the recent entries on this blog. It’s totally wierd. It’s a joke right? There are a couple more like this, note how it seems to end with some kind of “pitch” – that’s the spam part.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Husband and Wife
Husband – hey dear, I am logged in.
Wife – would you like to have some snacks?
Husband – hard disk full.
Wife – have you brought the saree.
Husband – Bad command or file name.
Wife – but I told you about it in morning
Husband – erroneous syntax, abort, retry, cancel.
Wife – hae bhagwan !forget it where’s your salary.
Husband – file in use, read only, try after some time.
Wife – at least give me your credit card,
i can do some shopping.
Husband – sharing violation, access denied.
Wife – i made a mistake in marrying you.
Husband – data type mismatch.
Wife – you are useless.
Husband – by default.
Wife – who was there with you in the car this morning?
Husband – system unstable press ctrl, alt, del to
Reboot.
Wife – what is the relation between you & your
Receptionist?
Husband – the only user with write permission.
Wife – what is my value in your life?
Husband – unknown virus detected.
Wife – do you love me or your computer?
Husband – Too many parameters.
Wife – i will go to my dad’s house.
Husband – program performed illegal operation, it will
Close.
Wife – I will leave you forever.
Husband – close all programs and log out for another User.
Wife – it is worthless talking to you.
Husband – shut down the computer.
Wife – I am going
Husband – Its now safe to turn off your computer
r.PROMOTE
I’m sure this is not the only site like this, but it’s the first I’ve encountered that’s just so mind bogglingly ordinary and Homer-ish. It’s a spam site I’m sure, but how does it work?
Have I just raised it’s credibility ranking and given it a boost?
Tags: wierdblogs, blogsphere, digital sublime
June 5, 2008 at 2:41 pm
I’ve had blog spam appear in comments on my blog….usually for SONY electronic gear. “Bessie” the name they use.
As for the NZ blogosphere…..are there more than 150 to 200 active people in it?
I’m thinking of blogs that see more than 3 posts / week.
Tumeke! stats would suggest that would be on the high side of regular blogger numbers.
I’m distinguishing between actual bloggers and that other (larger?) number who are commenters on blogs.
June 8, 2008 at 5:54 pm
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July 9, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Trend Micro classified it as a hoax.
http://www.trendmicro.com/VINFO/hoaxes/hoaxDetails.asp?HName=Ba+Kut+Teh%3A+The+China+Way+of+Cooking+Hoax&Page=1
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