Spam spam spam

And I thought I had it bad.

Kelley at Suburban Blight is getting buried in the stuff.

I've probably gotten ten thousand spam comments in the last ten days. I just got an e-mail from my host, threatening to shut down my blog if I don't get my MT-Blacklist activity under control. Evidently, the processes launched simply by comments-denial knocked their server offline, taking down a number of other blogs in the process.

Plastic sand beasts

Have you visited Strandbeest yet?

Since about ten years Theo Jansen is occupied with the making of a new nature. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic matierial of this new nature. He makes skeletons which are able to walk on the wind. Eventualy he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.

Check out Theo's movies of his strange plastic creatures in action, particularly Animaris Currens Ventosa walking. It's a hoot.

US election map

The BBC has an interactive US elections map highlighting the swing states, providing information on past election results and explaining how the election college system works.

Cool graphics too.

Home thoughts

I’ve been sorting through some of the photos I took during my last trip to the States. Hard to believe it was three years ago.

Here’s my favorite. It's a shot of the New Mexico Museum of Space History from November 2001.

Long time gone

Tomorrow sure was a long time coming.

Acute respiratory failure, followed by a dark depression, kind of got the better of me for a while. Still, I’m back.

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.