Author: Eric Brooks

Web & Graphic Designer, Blogger, Musician, Evil Clown. I also code websites and promote people for a living. Still kind of a jerk, though. Approach with food.

Die comment spammers, DIE

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Pardon the appearance, but I decided to get with the times and upgrade to the latest WordPress to combat the ridiculous amount of comment spam I get here. Up until now, I had the ORIGINAL version of WordPress (and highly customized) here… and I can’t TAKE having to delete over 3,000 crap comments per day. Even worse is sifting through them to find the 2 or three legitimate comments.

Of course, the newest WordPress is a whole new ballgame, now it’s designed to use themes so I have to figure out how to design a look that’s uniform with the rest of the site and get all my other scripts to work on this page.

But hey… I’m a designer, and this is what I do, right?
So far my inbox has been incredibly grateful by the lack of spam. 😀

Next will be a rewrite of my guestbook and mailing list scripts.
Comment spammers… you are SO screwed now.

Betty Bowers -vs- Ann Coulter

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Betty Bowers reviews ‘Ann Coulter’s: Godless’

HAW HAW! Oh forget anything I can say about that anorexic loon, Betty Bowers does it so much better!

Excerpt:
"Instead of using this book to dabble in the bracing novelty of introspection, Miss Coulter turns her two-setting mind (‘off’ and ‘off her rocker’) to hector us about religion."

"Let’s be honest: Reading a book about religion from Ann Coulter is tantamount to reading a book about dieting from Michael Moore. After all, who wants to be lectured about not being Christian enough by an almost-50 year-old boozehound in a black leather miniskirt who has never been married?"

Wait there’s more…

"With a mouth so busy frothing it apparently has no time to eat, Miss Coulter claims to be livid at these opportunistic widows for being crass enough to remember the event that killed the father of their children."

Go read it. The right-wing must be so proud of her…

PS: For those who missed the crock-u-drama, “The Path to 9/11”, the White House website has some of the deleted scenes you missed because all Good Americans™ watched football that night instead. 😀

I pray nightly for your death

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You know, moron…
You don’t really think things through, do you?

If I’m this irritating and obnoxious while I’m alive, what do you think I’ll be like as a ghost haunting your silly ass for a long, boring eternity?

You’ll never want to take your clothes off or be alone in a dark room EVER AGAIN.

Be careful what you wish for, cupcake. *EvilGrin* 😀

It’s 10PM. Do you know where your malignant websites are?

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Ever use Anonymizer on MySpace? Besides the anonymous surfing, it serves to filter out known malignant websites…. many of whom serve ads there.

You may recall back in July when a malignant ad affected millions there, and Tom urged everyone to upgrade their flash player?

Check this out…

A box ad blocked by Anonymizer
Here is the message that Anonymizer gives you:
Warning!
The site you are attempting to access has been flagged by Anonymizer’s Malicious Site Filter. Anonymizer blocks many sites used for spyware, viruses, spam robots, phishing scams, and other privacy violations.If you understand that Anonymizer has indicated that this site is dangerous, but you would like to see the page anyway, please select one of the options below.We strongly advise that you do not visit this site.

Hmmmmm….

Tower ad from bulletins page... BLOCKEDBut that’s not the only place this is happening. Some ads go through and some don’t. Here is another screenshot from tonight. A tower ad on the bulletins page was blocked. Certain Leaderboard ads on top has been blocked as well.

  • Rockstar: Supernova
  • Mates1
  • Classmates.Com
  • Webalize.Com
  • Insweb.com


    • Are all ok and show, but the others are being blocked by Anonymizer for some reason.

    Could be something serious. Could be nothing.

    I certainly have no problem with MySpace collecting information with cookies (I believe it’s in the TOS I agreed to.), but anonymizer doesn’t just block ads or sites for little or no reason.

    Does this mean several ad servers have been blocked by Anonymizer? Or is it the ads themselves? Is there still a threat of malignant adware or trojans being transmitted? Is this just part of the business of what they do to give their customers “free” service?

    I don’t know, but it certainly doesn’t hurt to ask….

    Politics, Post 9/11 style

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    *SIGH*
    I had no intention of entertaining the “propaganda-drama” that aired on ABC. What people like Michelle Malkin and her buddies have failed to mention in their manufactured outrage and screams of “censorship” is that it was riddled with fictional scenes and misinformation… I mean not even a link from them about it.

    Dishonesty as usual. (Gee, shock?).

    We all would rather watch a good football game anyway.

    They’re pissed that the Clintons (unlike most Democrats) wont take any shit from them. They’ve dealt with most of the GOP’s slander and attacks all through Bill’s 8-year presidency and the best they got on him was a blowjob in an investigation that cost the taxpayers millions.

    Which brings me to another point…
    Rep. Murtha “Disappointed” That Hillary Clinton Didn’t Endorse Troop Withdrawal Plan…

    Please tell me they aren’t serious.
    Americans aren’t quitters. Cutting and running is for cowards. We’re in Iraq now. It’s our mess and our problem.

    Senator Clinton knows that a withdrawal would be a disaster. She also knows a thing or two about standing your ground.

    You fail to realize that you’d be back in power if you provided less criticism and more solutions, don’t you?
    I have the solution to all of this, do YOU Democrats?

    No words to say…

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    The web is filled with pictures, posts, memories, stories, rants, propaganda and conspiracies about what happened five years ago today. There’s nothing I can add.

    Not even my tears.
    I was all cried out a long time ago.
    I was born and raised in New York City.

    All I have to offer you is my Love, a hug, and the promise that everything will be alright. It always works out.
    -=e=-

    There is no 9/11 conspiracy, you morons!

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    Rather than me coming up with something wild and far-fetched (Like how assholes in New York can *honestly* believe I’m divorced and no longer seeing or supporting my children… you know the ones I stayed home from work and picked up from school today?), I bring you another nutty conspiracy theory skillfully debunked by the man I want to be when he grows up: MADDOX….

    [There is no 9/11 Conspiracy, you morons]

    You see… as long as the Democrats allow lunatics to continue spouting stuff like this, and not disavow them… they will continue to lose and wonder why people use the term “The Looney Left”. With the mid-term elections coming up, and no doubt Terrorism will be the number one topic and ace in the hole for Fox “News” types, we can’t afford to lose this one.

    These nutjobs and conspiracy theorists do NOT speak for me. Go take your “Illuminati” fairy tales someplace else.

    Do you want a lot of MySpace friends really REALLY fast?

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    MySpace MegaWhore contest!

    Do you have a MySpace page?
    Do you want a LOT of friends?

    Well Problem Adults has a contest this week. All you have to do write one little itty-bitty blog entry about us (preferably something wild & outrageous!), and the winner will have THOUSANDS of friends coming to their MySpace page and being added ALL week!

    [CLICK HERE for details]
    (Deadline is FRIDAY. Read the rules.)

    Tortilla Man LIVES!!!!

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    Ya know… I should check my links more often.

    Tortilla man!

    Back in 2000, Richard Rubin hired me to design “Tortilla Man” (or at least that’s what I call him) and the “La Tortilla Loca” logo , and we were going to design his website next. Nicest guy you could ever work with. We lost touch shortly after that, and I assumed he never got a website done or the product out. So I put the project in my “Dead In The Water” section (Did I really write “indistry”??? JEEZ!).

    Well… had I bothered to click on the link to www.latortillaloca.com in the last four years I would have known he did INDEED get a website. (And the guys at kt Webdesigns did a great job too.).

    La Tortilla Loca

    As Richard wrote me recently: “Eric, all is alive and well, we are selling 1,000’s of our tortilla warmers and the the logo you designed is still going strong, we are far from DEAD IN THE WATER’ as you state on your site.”

    See what happens when you assume kids? LOL!

    Well I think this is great news and if there’s anyone I wanted to see make a success of his ideas it was him! Congratulations Richard, and LONG LIVE TORTILLA MAN!!!! 😀
    (Now I gotta move that out of Dead in the Water and make it a logo design entry.)

    Feeling the L-O-V-E today

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    Hey all…
    Just wanted to drop in quick and say thanks for all the birthday wishes, the comments on MySpace, the emails and the e-cards. YOU GUYS FUCKING ROCK!!!!

    There’s also a private party for me over at Problem Adults, and the ladies are eating the most interesting hors d’oeurves… talk about entertainment!!!!

    You know what? I’m feeling the love. I’m the luckiest guy on the planet. 🙂

    So if I haven’t told you lately…

    I love you guys!!!

    Thanks for making my birthday awesome!

    Luv,
    -=e=-

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