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A week or so ago, on my day off from school, I thought of a new anti-spam technique. Look at the following URL:

http://omikron.substandard.net/m/chris/substandard.net

Now, that doesn’t look like an email does it? Try it!!! Yes, it forwards to my email, it works with other stuff too. Try any email in there, just have it like

http://omikron.substandard.net/m/name/domain

Of course the name is before the @ and the domain is the stuff after it.

Since I don’t really want the traffic from all the people that don’t read this, I’ve decided to release my secret, even though most people would figure it out right from reading the first paragraph, and there is probably a better way to do it. I used an htaccess file to do it. Just add the following code to your htaccess file

RewriteEngine On
RedirectMatch /m/(.*)/(.*) mailto:$1@$2

I’ve thought of other ways to do it, but I haven’t tried to implement them. Drew has a cool way of doing it with PHP, it’s just a header() function and it only works for his email.

Note: This is no where near complete, I think of ideas all the time. I will probably also think of more secure ways to do it.

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Mmmm, I found an interesting game, check it out. It’s really fun and addictive but I don’t get it, well that kinda sucks for me. I don’t know, you can play it, see what you think of it. It’s really random, but that’s okay. Still very fun.

Well, my phone is obviously not a Mac and it will never will be. It can look like one however. I just installed this really cool theme that makes it look like panther and stuff. It even has the really cool background and stuff.

Probably a thousand other people have found this before but I found it about 5 seconds ago. This is the smallest Linux penguin. At a miniscule 130 microns, it is by far the smallest version of “Tux” I have ever seen. It is imprinted on a silicon chip of unknown origin and function. There is also the Waldo, A sword on a PowerPC 750 processor, the Playboy Bunny, a Smurf, and Dilbert. You can get the whole index of silicon “animals” here. Also, look at a bunch of beer that is extremely magnified here.

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