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Sep 19, 2007 in Digg, Stuff That Annoys Me
In December 2003, German citizen Khaled el-Masri boarded a bus in Germany for a holiday in Skopje, Macedonia. Instead of a restful vacation, the Muslim man of Lebanese heritage says he ended up in a Central Intelligence Agency isolation cell in Afghanistan as a suspected terrorist.
Sep 18, 2007 in Digg
Nuclear fusion is the most promising, yet a very challenging method of producing clean energy that can meet the ever growing demands without worrying about fuel. Scientist have yet to succeed in harnessing the power in an affordable way, but by using the KSTAR furnace, the government wants to start commercial fusion power generation in 30 years.
Jun 29, 2007 in Digg, Odd News
Using just a little bit of math, the 11 cities I tracked represented 8,790 person-hours of line-waiting. With 140 Apple stores nationwide (not even counting AT&T stores, by the way), this represents 7.8% of all stores. A tiny bit of extrapolation later and we have 111872 person-hours spent waiting in line
May 03, 2007 in Digg
The first piece of citizen journalism created by Assignment Zero, a “pro-am” collaboration between Wired and NewAssignment.net, explores crowdsourcing. The project still has a month to go, but here’s a preview.
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Feb 02, 2007 in Digg, Security, Stuff That Annoys Me
Ah, comment spam. The everlasting quest for a clickthru or, even better, the sacred backlink. I look through the garbage that Askimet catches and shake my head. They aren’t even trying anymore. It’s just brute force. Throw a dozen comments out there with twenty or thirty links in it and see what sticks. Where’s the finesse? Where’s the ingenuity? Well last night I found it. Or rather it found me.
I posted this story to Digg. In a short time, I noticed the story had one comment posted to it. I opened the comment section and found a bit of creative comment spam. The comments are gone now, but I did get a screenshot. 
Someone cleverly got there bot to grab the username from the story posting and generate a link to the Oh So Cute website. I looked at the profile for this user ikffhf (which is now deleted) and saw that the bot was posting similar comments to other stories. Always grabbing the username of the original poster and generating a link to the fake newspaper. I have seen the same trick on a couple of blogs this morning as well.
So on this one, I am going to have to give the spammer a +1 for creativity. But I’m still going to give them a -1,000,000 for spam.
Forty-five years after his father, Dan Gurney, won the first sports car race at Daytona International Speedway, Alex Gurney took the pole position for the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Special Reserve Rolex 24 At Daytona and will lead a star-studded to the green flag at 1:30 p.m. ET on Saturday.
Jan 24, 2007 in Digg
“I picked up a box full from the Ballarat site earlier today, and inside were a few M&Ms packs, in unusually good condition. Halfway through them I found these… In each bag there are three or four M&Ms with the Apple logo stamped on them.”
read more | digg story (Please don’t. It’s really lame.)
Further proof that anything can get to the Digg front page if the title contains the word Apple.