Ogged brings out my inner Nelson Muntz.
If I were travelling to DC this weekend, rather than last, I think I'd be sorely tempted to stage a two person counter protest.
damn, that's probably going to get me spammed, isn't it?
I would love for a picture to be taken with that dude and another guy with a sign saying "No, Don't".
Why am I reminded of the fake street signs on the intro sequence of What Not To Wear?
"Dark socks with shorts not permitted at any time."
And, of course, the real counter protest:
Free Ahmad Chalabi
If we were on Law & Order, we could have our tech zoom in and then magically remove the pixelization.
"? ? ? ? ? ? ? of a great civilization"
"We are at or near the apex of a great civilization."
—Charles Munger, 2005 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting
Regarding Munger's remark: according to the linked page,
(One of us noted Buffett responding that he did not feel that way.)
You know Judith Miller has nothing but disdain for protestors. That guy should keep doing it.
I got the "we are at" (so-so confidence) and "of a great civilization" (high confidence) and the word count from looking at the picture, and Google brought me home.
Yeah, until I got that, I was knee-deep in Olmec scholarship.
That dude's dress clearly indicates that he's an anti-Miller partisan.
How so? Are you suggesting he's protesting ironically?
Yes; no one would wear those socks and sandals in earnest.
Would they wear them in O-earnest?
I wouldn't put it past an officer of the Warren Buffett irregulars.
Ogged, if 4 means you added w/d's URL to 2 to keep his e-mail from showing up, you need to do the same to 3.
No, he had put his email address in the name field in 2. MT is supposed to keep robots from reading the address in the email field.
An ill-behaved robot wouldn't have too much difficulty harvesting the address. No difficulty at all, really, since compliance with the rel="nofollow" attribute is voluntary.
Yeah, but you know robots don't have to respect robots.txt, right?
Isn't that what I said, more or less?
Did I not italicize "supposed," people? Yeesh.
Right, but I'm not sure Matt recognized the subtle point you were making.
SB, it is, but when I wrote, you had not written.
Actually, it's neither the nofollow nor robots.txt that is supposed to keep the address from being harvested. From MT:
If the spam_protect attribute is provided, the email address will be modified so as to prevent spambots from harvesting it. The web browser, however, will still display the email address properly. For example, if the email address is foo@bar.com, and you use
<$MTEntryAuthorEmail spam_protect="1"$>
the email address will be displayed as foo@bar.com;.
I didn't give assurances, because even the "modifications" are often readable by harvesters.
oh, I thought it might be that (robots.txt doesn't really make sense). You'd think it would be pretty easy to make your address-miner convert entities to their equivalents.
Ben, I see, sorry for the fuss.
So, mightn't it still be to w/d's advantage to put his URL in 3?
Let's just do an experiment and see if I get more spam in the coming days (this is not an invitation to add me to e-mail lists).
I got spam supposedly from Nabokov-[something]@[somewebsite].com that I believe to be unfogged related.
How can I become a fan club President?
Thanks,
D. Marie