Archive: November 11, 2005

Friday, November 11, 2005

1. Glenn Reynolds has a roundup on Bush's speech today. Norman Podhoretz' article is relevant here.

   Update: John Hinderaker at Power Line.

   Update: Tim Bray has a post in response.

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2. Why Wal-Mart Works & Why That Makes Some People Crazy (via Glenn Reynolds). Just watched the trailer. Should be an interesting film.

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Amazon.com: The C.S. Lewis Index: A Comprehensive Guide to Lewis's Writings and Ideas

Amazon.com: The C.S. Lewis Index: A Comprehensive Guide to Lewis's Writings and Ideas, via Google Print, via Adam Langley. I'm trying to find a line from one of Lewis' Narnia books using Google Print and came across this book.

Update: Holy crap, how does Google highlight the word you searched for within the image of the page of the book??

Ha, Google Print OCR'd "Aslan" as "Asian" all over the Chronicles of Narnia. But I still can't find the gorram quote I'm looking for.

Update: Found the quote.

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Spam bounces

Sam Ruby: Bounces:

If my experience is anywhere near representative, it seems like the future of SPAM on the Internet is to be sent purportedly from somebody that doesn’t exist, and to somebody that doesn’t exist.

I've had the same experience. Since TextDrive (with some help from my own procmail rules) seems to do an excellent job of blocking all real spam before I even see it, just about all of my spam now consists of bounces from joe-jobs, plus the occasional link exchange request.

Sam posts his procmail rule to block such bounces:

:0:
* ^FROM_MAILER
* ! ^TO_rubys@
| /home/rubys/bin/logspam


I had no idea that procmail had a ^FROM_MAILER rule. I kind of want to know what's in that rule before I use it, but that's not going to stop me. Any way for me to see what's in that rule without having to dig through the source?

Update: If you say:

VERBOSE=yes


in your .procmailrc, that'll show you the exact regular expression procmail tries matching against in your procmail log.

Update: Sam points out that that information is in the man page.

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1. When torture is the only option ... (via Power Line: On the McCain Ademndment):

   McCain is a bona fide hero. But there's nothing courageous in standing firm with virtually the whole cultural leadership of this nation and the Western world, under any circumstances. It's too easy. To take a principled stand that you know will make people loathe and vilify you — that's what integrity, leadership and moral courage are all about. This time Cheney is the hero. McCain is taking the easy out.

   Scott Johnson at Power Line writes:

   I think that Senator McCain's amendment is another example of the kind of moral vanity that brought us his odious campaign finance bill undermining Americans' basic First Amendment freedoms. Subtract from the rights of Americans at home and extend the rights of Americans to foreign terrorists abroad -- it doesn't make much sense to me.

   Like I've said in the past, I strongly dislike McCain. I hope to never be put in the position of having to choose between voting for him and, say, Hillary Clinton.

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2. Free Associations : The Bizarre and Unhappy Story of 'file:' URLs (via Sam Ruby).

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